I have had the same one as Lyn for yonks, a workhorse, used a lot, never changed the blade. When it finally packs in I would buy a Bosch again. You are better off running a lawnmower over your leaves to break them up, a shredder is not really designed for that.
Mountainous Northern Catalunya, Spain. Hot summers, cold winters.
Sorry, I meant ours doesn't like hedge branches with leaves still attached - lawnmower not any good in that situation.
The shredders with the whizzy round blades (technical description) tend to do those better. What I generally do is feed branches with leaves in with some drier stuff at the same time. Seems to stop the innards getting gummed up.
I have an alko impact shredder which is the type KT53 describes and use it in exactly that way - soft greens stuffed in and 'helped through' by then feeding in woody material up to about 20mm. I do remove and sharpen the (reversible) blades every few months and new replacements are about £20 which I get about every 2-3 years. Still going strong after about 20 years. The resulting shredded mixture composts down very quickly with the help of 'recycled beer' and is excellent stuff.
A trowel in the hand is worth a thousand lost under a bush.
We have a Bosch AXT 25 TC and it crunches through the apple, hawthorn and buddleia prunings very well. Not too noisy; my two year old slept maybe 7 metres away.
Don't tend to chop much leafy stuff so can't comment on that side.
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