4. Chopping
What can I chop?
Yes:
• organic household and garden waste
⇒ e. g. hedge and tree cuttings, dead flowers
and vegetable kitchen waste.
No:
• glass, metal, plastic, plastic bags, stones,
cloth, roots with soil, food left-overs, fish or
meat.
Special informations on the chopping
procedure:
• Branches, twigs and wood should be broken
down immediately after they have been cut
- material of this kinds gets very hard when
it is dry, and it therefore makers sense to
reduce the maximum branch diameters, so
that it is ready for chopping.
• Remove any side shoots from branches with
a large number of twigs.
• How to chop garden and kitchen waste with
hight water content and a tendency to
clog
- to prevent the machine from clogging, alter-
nate waste with woodcontaining material.
• Please do not exceed the maximum branch
diameter specified for your appliance (∅ see
p. 23).
• The blades largely pull the material into the
machine by themselves.
• Strong branches may cause overloading.
This can be avoided by pulling them back
from time to time.
• If the machine is overloaded, a protective
motor switch ensures that the machine
turns itself off automatically
- turn the shredder on again after about 5
minutes
- during those five minutes you cannnot turn
the machine, see point 7 „Operational
faults".
5. Maintenance and Care
Generally garden shredders require little
maintenance. To maintain their efficiency and a
long life, observe the following:
- After shredding, the machine must be cleaned
inside and outside
- Slightly grease polished metal components
immediately after use (to prevent rusting).
Please make sure,
- that before closing the device, all impurities
have been removed from the thread in the
housing trough; impurities can block the
thread so that the enclosure top of the
housing does not close properly → motor
does not start
- that the screw is screwed
housing trough during closing
6. Turning of the knives
Reduced output:
• one edge of the knife has become blunt
⇒ turn knife so that you can use the other
edge
• both edge of the knives have become
blunt
⇒ replace with new set of knives
(order-no. 384547)
straight
into the
left-hand thread
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