« previous next »
Pages: [1]   Go Down

Author Topic: Personal shredders?  (Read 518 times)

0 Members and 1 Guest are viewing this topic.

Offline Questor

  • Trade Count: (0)
  • Senior Member
  • *****
  • Posts: 7075
Personal shredders?
« on: March 19, 2009, 04:11:46 AM »
Questor Jr. got a bit overzealous shredding some papers and he destroyed our personal shredder. Can you recommend a good model at a reasonable price. Who sells them? Thanks.
Logged
Safety first

Offline Siskiyou

  • Trade Count: (0)
  • Senior Member
  • *****
  • Posts: 3417
  • Gender: Male
Re: Personal shredders?
« Reply #1 on: March 19, 2009, 06:40:05 AM »
Join the club, the wife overloaded and killed our new one from Sam's Club.  I killed the old one after years.  During the winter we turn it to ash.
Logged
There is a learning process to effectively using a gps.  Do not throw your compass and map away!

Boycott: San Francisco, L.A., Oakland, and City of Sacramento, CA.

Offline Tommyt

  • Trade Count: (51)
  • Senior Member
  • *****
  • Posts: 3051
  • Gender: Male
Re: Personal shredders?
« Reply #2 on: March 19, 2009, 06:51:50 AM »
Quote from: Siskiyou on March 19, 2009, 06:40:05 AM
turn it to ash.

This is what I did after Breaking to many Shredders
Logged

Offline gypsyman

  • Trade Count: (1)
  • Senior Member
  • *****
  • Posts: 4850
Re: Personal shredders?
« Reply #3 on: March 19, 2009, 06:59:50 AM »
Mine is black, weighs about 600lbs., 3' deep by 18'' wide. When I shred papers, I usually throw in a couple pieces of ash or maple, and about once a week, take what's left out to the garden, and spread it around. Has worked great for over 20 years. gypsyman
Logged
We keep trying peace, it usually doesn't work!!Remember(12/7/41)(9/11/01) gypsyman

Offline quickdtoo

  • Global Moderator
  • Trade Count: (149)
  • Senior Member
  • *****
  • Posts: 43301
  • Gender: Male
Re: Personal shredders?
« Reply #4 on: March 19, 2009, 08:20:03 AM »
I highly recommend the confetti cut Fellowes DM15C if you can find one, but it's no longer made, I bought mine several years ago, it's still running fine. Burning isn't an option here, so the shredder gets used a lot, it'll gobble up whole junk mail credit card offers as fast as I can can feed them and it never complains or slows down, the only maintenance is lubing the cutter head each time the 10 gallon bucket is dumped, got mine on ebay for $115 shipped. Sometimes the feed sensor gets dust on it and it doesn't auto shut off, but that's an easy fix by blowing the dust off.

Tim
Logged
"Always do right, this will gratify some and astonish the rest" -  Mark Twain

Offline Sourdough

  • Trade Count: (1)
  • Senior Member
  • *****
  • Posts: 8150
  • Gender: Male
Re: Personal shredders?
« Reply #5 on: March 19, 2009, 09:06:27 AM »
Got two shredders sitting in the house.  Wife says it takes too long to feed it.  She throws everything into a big trash can in the garage.  Once a month I dump it in the burn barrel. 
Logged
Where is old Joe when we really need him?  Alaska Independence    Calling Illegal Immigrants "Undocumented Aliens" is like calling Drug Dealers "Unlicensed Pharmacists"
What Is A Veteran?
A 'Veteran' -- whether active duty, discharged, retired, or reserve -- is someone who, at one point in his life, wrote a blank check made payable to 'The United States of America,' for an amount of 'up to, and including his life.' That is honor, and there are way too many people in this country today who no longer understand that fact.

Offline 45-70.gov

  • GBO Supporter
  • Trade Count: (7)
  • Senior Member
  • *****
  • Posts: 7009
  • Gender: Male
Re: Personal shredders?
« Reply #6 on: March 19, 2009, 09:11:50 AM »
our  shredder  also  heats  the house

dual purpose machine  because

we  are  green  tree  huggers here
Logged
when drugs are outlawed only out laws will have drugs
DO WHAT EVER IT TAKES TO STOP A DEMOCRAT
OBAMACARE....the biggest tax hike in the  history of mankind
free choice and equality  can't co-exist
AFTER THE LIBYAN COVER-UP... remind any  democrat voters ''they sat and  watched them die''...they  told help to ''stand down''

many statements made here are fiction and are for entertainment purposes only and are in no way to be construed as a description of actual events.
no one is encouraged to do anything dangerous or break any laws.

Offline Cabin4

  • Avery H. Wallace
  • GBO Supporter
  • Trade Count: (2)
  • Senior Member
  • *****
  • Posts: 4938
  • Gender: Male
  • Out West
Re: Personal shredders?
« Reply #7 on: March 19, 2009, 09:20:33 AM »
Fellows
Logged
Avery Hayden Wallace
Obama Administration: A corrupt criminal enterprise of bold face liars.
The States formed the Union. The Union did not form the States. States Rights!
GET US OUT OF THE UN. NO ONE WORLD GOVERNMENT!
S.A.S.S/NRA Life Member/2nd Amendment Foundation
CCRKBA/Gun Owners of America
California Rifle & Pistol Association
Ron Paul Was Right!
Long Live the King! #3

Offline sr sawyer

  • GBO Supporter
  • Trade Count: (70)
  • A Real Regular
  • *****
  • Posts: 599
  • Gender: Male
Re: Personal shredders?
« Reply #8 on: March 19, 2009, 02:06:57 PM »
Royal Model PX110MX is a nay nay nay.  Bought three of these two years ago, at Sams, and all three had problems or quit completely within six months. >:( >:( >:(
Logged
NRA Life Member

Offline Questor

  • Trade Count: (0)
  • Senior Member
  • *****
  • Posts: 7075
Re: Personal shredders?
« Reply #9 on: March 19, 2009, 02:18:10 PM »
You've convinced me of the wisdom of returning to the use of a thermal model.
Logged
Safety first

Offline S.S.

  • Trade Count: (0)
  • Senior Member
  • *****
  • Posts: 2840
Re: Personal shredders?
« Reply #10 on: March 19, 2009, 02:40:40 PM »
I have a 55 gallon drum with the top cut out.
 of course it is riddled with bullet holes to let in air. ;)
Logged
Vir prudens non contra ventum mingit
"A wise man does not pee against the wind".

Offline squirrellluck

  • Trade Count: (0)
  • A Real Regular
  • ****
  • Posts: 642
Re: Personal shredders?
« Reply #11 on: March 19, 2009, 03:24:07 PM »
Cut down on shredding. Send all junk mail with envelopes back out. Fill it with the junk mail that doesn't have envelopes. They have to pay the postage on those return envelopes if they are used.
Logged
Pages: [1]   Go Up
« previous next »