Buy Flowtron LE-800 Leaf-Eater Electric Leaf ShredderFlowtron LE-800 Leaf-Eater Electric Leaf Shredder Product Description:
- Electric leaf shredder and mulcher
- 21-inch hopper; reduces 8 bags of leaves to 1 bag; 30 to 1 mulch reduction
- Steel and rugged high-density polyethylene; some assembly required
- 36 heavy-duty cutting lines and legs included
- 16 pounds; limited 1-year warranty
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174 of 174 people found the following review helpful.
Leaves only, please
By Steven Weinrich
The unit was easy to assemble. It is a bit on the noisy side, as other reviewers have mentioned. Also, it is sometimes hard to get stable on a slightly slanted yard. If you are serious about doing leaf shredding, then you'll want to set the machine on top of a tarp and move it around the tarp as the piles of shredded leaves mound up under the machine.The biggest downfall is how fragile it is: This is a leaf shredder only. It cannot handle even the smallest twig or branch without jamming or breaking the shredding devices inside. This was a big problem for me since its very difficult to 'screen' out every little branch before loading rake-fulls of leaves into the hopper. I got tired of having to constantly shut it down, unclog it due to some unshredded twig, restarting it, and then re-loading all the unshredded leaves, trying to screen out any twigs on the way.Because of this I have since stopped using it.
91 of 92 people found the following review helpful.
Flowtron Leaf-Eater
By C. Jenkins
This is an excellent value. Good basic item for fall cleanup chores. As others have mentioned, it is a string trimmer mounted upside down in a funnel. Replacement strings are easy to replace. Small bits of brush and twigs are handled well. It is, however, meant to reduce the volume of leaves, not brush. It will do slightly wet leaves, but care must be taken not to feed them in too fast, or the machine can overload. Used with a bit of common sense, it is a great yard cleanup aid.
91 of 94 people found the following review helpful.
Can be modified for better preformance
By David Rupe
At first i wasn't all that thrilled with how well this thing worked. I started brainstorming on ways i could improve this thing and i finally got it!I went to home depot and bought the Echo Rapid-Loader replacement string trimmer cutting head(Universal Fit).Remove the original cutter head from the Flowtron. Place the large spacer that comes with the Echo cutter head in the Flowtron.Place the small spacer inside the Echo cutting head and then place the Echo cutting head on top of the large spacer you just put into the Flowtron.Use One of the universal(1 of 4) placed on the opposite side of the small spacer and the hex screw to tighten down the Echo cutting head.I used the .095 trimmer string and it didnt last too long but BOY DID THIS THING EAT LEAVES WITH AN APPETITE FOR MORE.Im going to load it up with .105 and .155 trimming string which should work even better and last longer than the .095 trimming string.
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