https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=COCRhSTMDh8 They should mass produce this with a larger intake and a finer final cut size. Pieces of wood this big would be considered "wood chips" and would not compost easily if at all... they'd take forever. However, it makes a nice mulch. If you could turn contents into something more resembling sawdust, now we're talking... and you'd probably get an even harder workout too.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=l2ZlZ5PPJMo While I grind my coffee with an old hand crank device, doing the leaves seems extremely time consuming. Perhaps there's a pedal powered leaf shredder out there? Time to take a look...
When I went out to the compost pile this past weekend, I noticed that I needed more cover material... how? It just started getting warmer out, and I noticed that the top of my pile had a lot of bugs flying around... when a pile is covered properly, this won't happen. I had been uncovering/depositing without adding new brown material, and since I got lazy this is what happened. You can see halfway above the compost thermometer that there's a section of greenish material/hay and then a solid blanket of leaves on top. I get so happy when I shred a bag of leaves...it gives me several inches of fresh cover, which looks like this: You're looking at the solution to most composting issues. Ample (shredded & dampened) leaf…