Bosch AXT 23 TC

Great machine as the conical shaped open bladed both cuts, drags and also shears against the stationary blade. Its conical shape results in the clearing of the rotor. As a plastic recycler once, I had many cutters and the design of the Bosch 23 is very clever and its blade endurance has been terrific. The stationary blade can be adjusted easily by… Read more

just turning a black knob. I have had my unit for over 10 years, and the blades are as good as new. But it will build up with soft leaves so keep woodier bits ready to pull the softer stuff through. Big flowers won't get pulled through - and heavy leaves also will not get through. They'll build up and block the hopper, and you'll have to open up the hopper and free things. Reversing also assists. It is safe due to only working when the feed hopper is closed. For hedges and tree branches this unit is incredible. It mostly self feeds. I had an Ozito mulcher which wore out quite quickly. However I dropped the Bosch removing from an SUV to do my father in law's large hedge, and the Bosch fell onto the road, and cracked an internal part of the housing. One has to be careful that it is not designed to handle a fall! Bosch in Australia had it repaired (it was 5 years old and I paid for the repair) but they could not source part, so they made up a part from timber, which eventually failed. The machine still works fine mechanically but the safety switch can not always connect, so I am having to buyer another one. Its price has been maintained over the years as i paid over $Au700 ten or more years ago. If one is moving it - remove the top completely, do not bundle it as a single unit. The top can be stored in its mulch container, which makes its compact, but also, that is the way to transport it, in separate bits. The rest of the mulchers are much lower in quality or very expensive (ie petrol units). The main benefit of the Bosch 23 is that it self feeds, so while its pulling an item through by itself one can be getting the next stuff ready. But if its all soft and leafy, and you have no harder bits to pull the soft stuff through - one would be better off with a high speed rotating blade and noisy shredder that you'll have to push most of the greenery through. If you have a decent volume of hard material then the Bosch is an outstanding unit.

Faulty product with useless and frustrating overseas outsourced consumer assistance – The chipper jammed shortly after first using it, and I was unable to resolve it. It was picked up under warranty shortly after, and promptly lost. The tracking service showed that it hadn’t been picked up, and the assistance phone service (overseas outsourced) regarding its whereabouts were worse than useless, either referring me to someone… Read more

else, or saying they would get back to me but didn’t . I eventually managed to track it down myself, where the storage facility said they were waiting on the correct information of where to send it from Bosch, and we’re themselves frustrated by the unhelpful overseas outsourced service. 5 weeks had passed so far. It was then successfully transferred to the repair facility. Another 4 weeks pass with no news and no information forthcoming from either the tracking service or the phone help line. I manage to find the number of the service facility, who told me that they were waiting for parts. Another 3 weeks have passed, with no information on the tracking service. Whereas I have always liked Bosch products, this is my first involvement with its service when an item doesn’t work. I am unimpressed, and deeply regret purchasing it.

I am amazed at just how good this Bosch turbocut mulcher is – This mulcher is so good - I am amazed at just how good it is. For forty years I have used a very large, heavy, noisy red Rover mulcher with a 5Hp Briggs and Stratton motor. This smaller Bosch mulcher is so much better than the faithful old Rover. It cuts much thicker branches than the Rover ever could - with ease. It cuts everything from my garden… Read more

with its hedges, shrubs and trees etc, that I put into it. Some reviewers say they find it not so good with leaves, but it mulches anything with leaves I put into it, with gusto. I put a lot of shrubbery, branches and hedge prunings into it, and it mulches the lot - no worries. Its also much quieter than the old Rover, uses no petrol and doesnt require oil changes. And there are no problems with non functioning spark plugs and cleaning air filters. Its narrower than the Rover so fits between cars into and out of the garage easily, which is useful. I find I can just turn it on and do a small amount of mulch if I need to. It also handles large amounts of mulch with ease. Starting up the Rover was always an effort and I never mulched small amounts. The Rover needed a strong person to turn its heavy motor over. In my seventies that was becoming difficult to do. Now all I have to do is flick a switch, and it starts - that is great! All in all, this mulcher is very impressive. It is joy to operate and mulches anything and everything I put into it with ease.

What a beast ! Outperforms all that have gone before – Growing tired of recalcitrant petrol powered mulchers (I've had 4 different models of various designs) and finding my Parkinson's disease required I find something more manageable I bought a used machine 4 weeks ago. Within it design limits it easily disposed of everything that disappeared into the self feeding chute with ease only clogging when… Read more ·  1

the bin was full. Important to check the blade / cutter is correctly adjusted as per manufacturers instructions and mix leafy material with more woody prunings and save a substantial stick for the final piece as this cleans out anything leafy. Best feature not having to poke the thicker pieces into a dedicated opening pushing against a high speed blade doing its best to fracture your hand.

First shredder, works well – It shreds small to medium branches without any problems. Bamboo, palm leaves, all just disappear. It can get clogged with too many palm fronds though, but it is easy enough to unclog. I've had it for over two years now and it hasn't missed a beat. Show details ·  1

It is not suitable for garden greens – Just bought it yesterday and found it good on drier woody branches but not on greenery as it is described and twigs, not cutting it to small pieces as expected. If you are using it mostly for greenery, it is not for you. Show details

Very quiet and powerful. Big upgrade over the AXT Rapid 2200 – I owned an AXT Rapid 2200 for 9 months. It was a good shredder, although very noisy, prone to blockages and labour intensive. I liked it nonetheless, but it took me a long time to shred through the large volumes of material that we produce in our garden. After some time it developed a fault and I was able to return it and upgrade to the AXT 23 TC.… Read more

The AXT 23 TC is a substantially more useful shredder. It is so quiet that I can shred until 9 pm at night, and I am able to work through my material approximately 2.5 times faster than I could with the previous shredder. The AXT 2200 Rapid would probably block up once every 10-15 minutes, whereas the AXT 23 TC does not block up once in a 2 hour shredding session. The AXT 23 TC is also much better suited to woody material, yet it doesn't block up with the greener leafy material.

Honestly, I would say forget about the price difference as the AXT 23 TC is so much more efficient and you will save hours of labour by buying this more expensive machine. I wish I knew this first time around and then the first 9 months of shredding would have been so much easier.

I should point out that these machines are not commercial type machines (e.g. Hansa C4, C7) so you can't expect to process material as fast as they will. However if you have a large yard, the AXT 23 TC is still fast enough to process a lot of material fairly quickly. The Bosch is also much quieter than the Hansa so this is a big advantage in that you can shred in the evenings (important if you have young children).

The best ever crusher – This machine is the real deal. it feeds almost effortlessly from the top and virtually drags the limb with side branches attached, into the chute, with little assistance. Occasionally a push is required with the implement supplied. It chops with such ease, minimal fuss and noise. We have used it to munch up an upturned Acacia, gum tree branches,… Read more

fruit tree pruning limbs. it will crush up to around 40- 45cm diameter limbs. This a machine I can safely use on my own (senior female) and I simply love it.

The crunched up residue i use on my paths, in the compost or directly onto our garden beds. I cannot find anything negative to say about this machine, except it requires a little care in moving it around.Even so, it is not difficult. At my age, it is wonderful to have a machine that does not hurt my back and does not require my husband to assist. Oh, it does require an extension cord, its only design fault.

A previous non Bosch machine was pretty good, but was low and our ageing backs did not like it much anymore. I cannot understand how anyone could give this Bosch machine a low score. My neighbours use it and greatly approve of our upgraded purchase. The felt it was simply amazing and easy to use.

A friend lent me their smaller Bosch upright muncher. It was equally brilliant, but we preferred its big brother, as our garden requires something with more crushing grunt.

Not suitable for most shredding – Currently on third one of these due to failures. Original purchase from Bunnings in September 2013 with a 2 year warranty. Replaced by Bunnings in March 2014 after machine sent to Brisbane and could not be repaired. Problem was machine just sits there with lights flashing and nothing else. Replaced again in October 2015 again by Bunnings with… Read more

identical fault of lights flashing and no action. Current machine still under 2 year warranty ( I hope ) and has

intermittent problem. Useless as a shredder as it only likes straight branches like bamboo or tomato stakes. Any

side branches result in branch sitting on cutter bouncing up and down until pushed through. You need a long push stick as you will be needing it a lot. Also does not like bunches of leaves as they also sit on top of cutter until pushed through. A job that should take 10 minutes results in 1/2 hour of frustration constantly clearing the cutter. Not my idea

of a machine costing $799. Glad I purchased at Bunnings who replace faulty equipment.