mulcher alternatives

[hedwig]

whats a chaff cutter??? Never seen!. Yes ist's true and if you have little ones running around and you have always halve an eye looking after them.

[ho-hum]

chaff cutter..

Deutsch (German)
1.
n. - Spreu, Häcksel

2.
n. - Scherze, Flachserei
v. - spaßen mit, scherzen

http://www.answers.com/topic/chaff

Hedwig a chaff cutter is like a very very sharp fan that you push long dry grass through [with grain] to make it easier to store and feed to horses. They were on all farms until the horses went. Dangerous machines if you werent thinking.

floot

[hedwig]

Hi floot,shurely nothing for a metropolitan backyard!

[Alex M]

Here's a couple of examples of manual chaff cutters -

an old Australian Bentalls Chaff Cutter, the sort of thing tht turns up at clearance sales:
http://www.lintrezza.com/chaff.html

...and a contempory Indian model: http://www.tnau.ac.in/tech/implements/fm6-1.htm

An old paper guillotine might do the job, too.

Paul, that Japan Woodworker site is terrific! There are some marvelous tools there. I have WWI British army machette which is both indestructable and indespensible. Good qualtiy cutting tools are a delight to use. Bad, cheap ones are not only disappointing, but dangerous.