In this category you can find petrol garden shredders - wood chippers with different cutting systems, mainly suitable to shred wood and thick branches, but also green or organic material of small and medium size.
They can be divided according to the cutting system:
Disc/hammers:
Roller:
Petrol wood chippers are designed to shred wood, perfect for woody material with more than 10 cm diameter, obtaining medium-sized wood chips, 3-4 cm, but at the same time they are not suitable to shred small material, especially leaves (in this case, disc rotor models are recommended).
In order to shred leaves with this type of petrol wood chipper, it is important to mix them with wood or large/medium-sized pieces of wood. These garden shredders are specifically designed to shred medium and large diameter branches (subject to the maximum cutting diameter indicated on each model), not suitable for leaves and small green material, and not recommended for small diameter branches.
All wood chippers in this category are equipped with a large hopper which allows to insert large amounts of material and avoids separating small and large materials; in addition, once it has been inserted, the machine will automatically drag the material inside, without the need for tools or operators.
Heavy-duty petrol garden shredders feature both a unified hopper and a double hopper.
We can divide petrol garden shredders in five different categories: