Started off slowly using monstera and palm fronds.....quickly became jammed...however removed spindle from exit point and it transformed into my new best friend. Quickly shredded range of materials from small branches to palms, vibernum etc. It is extremely noisy - wear earplugs, eye protection and gloves. Easy to open and clear, relatively light for moving around yard

I researched this product and thought ok, seems fine.
No, 2 minutes of mulching, five minutes of unclogging.
Can't put leafy branches in without trimming them with a machete.
Ended up returning it and manually trimming plants, took about 10 minutes to do what took me an hour with the mulcher.
Very disappointed.

Kept clogging, was having to open up after just a minute of use, especially with palm fronds. Broke after a few uses, opened it up to find an o-ring snapped and jammed between the blade and the guard.

This is a good mulcher. As per other reviews it did clog up within the first 5 minutes of handling green pittoposrum silver sheen hedge cuttings. I literately pulled out the spindle at the bottom of the shute, it’s plastic and gives in easily. I don’t know what it’s purpose is, except clog up the exit. It then operated without a hitch for 4.5 hours mulching green and dry branches.

This machine is certainly not a mulcher, jams consistently
.Spend more time cleaning than using, had an old Rover muncher previously, wish I had kept that.
Very disappointed as Ryobi has a good reputation

I bought this machine so I could prune and mulch. You can't do that, you have to dry the cuttings out for a week or so first. It handled dried out Gumtree twigs and branches with ease but as soon as I tried to feed fresh cuttings through, it clogged and jammed up and over heated. Not what I wanted should have kept my $300. First Ryobi product I have been disappointed with.

Just does the job but you must wear very good earmuffs and have very understanding neighbours.
It is only 12 months old but have put in mothballs and had my old ozito fixed.
I note that ryobi also have a Silent shredder out. Reckon they should give me money back.
Would not recommend you buy the RSH 2445B
Maybe the prefix RSH should have told me something??

We got it home from Bunnings, put it together, and I had palm fronds and small (12mm) bamboo to shred. My old Ozito shredder finally died after about 12 years. 5 minutes in I could feel it was jammed, overheated and stopped. My husband thought it would be fine but we had to open it and it was totally impacted, unusable. We’re on our way back to Bunnings now. We chose Ryobi as it had a 4 year replacement warranty and the Ozito Silent Shredder was out of stock. I’d go Ozito any day.

The blades get blunt before all the bark from one Manna Gum is mulched. I've never mulched anything else. I turned the blades over once with great difficulty. Now they're blunt again and I've still got about a quarter of the bark remaining. Blades are terribly expensive and seem to be only available from Bunnings. I'll have to see if I can sharpen them myself. Worst tool I ever wasted money on.

Awesome bit of kit. I've just purchased this little rippa and first thing I did was remove the plastic bar with the 5 discs in the discharge chute to the catch bin, now I've just had this beast running for 8 hrs straight ( that's right all you haters - 8 hrs) feeding any and everything that will fit into the feed chutes, including and up to it's stated 45mm diameter solid wood, and has mot missed a beat. Do your self a favour...... go out and buy it

I concur with all the other reviews for this terrible product. Holes are pathetic, overheats, clogs and jams continuously, incredibly noisy, spend more time fixing it than using it. When smoke started to appear after 5 minutes I suspected it needed a rest. Absolute rubbish, at least that is where it’s going. Good brand, rubbish product.

The machine is screamingly loud in operation. It clogs frequently and with various types of materials there is always the problem that within a minute or two there is clogging and even the plunger fails to clear the problem. Instead of reducing twigs to small pieces it reduces them to sawdust. It just does not do the job. Very disappointed

Purchased from Bunnings and used once for an hour to shred twigs less than 1cm thick from a wattle. Clogged and jammed at least 6 times in that hour, cleared it each time but it backed up from the chute again within 5 - 10 mins. I gave up and took it back to Bunnings who were happy to refund my money.
Worst power garden product I have ever purchased, don't buy it!!

A very big waste of money, going to sell it, I have used it twice and it takes ages because you can only put 1 to 2cm twigs in it any larger and it jams,by the time you manage to manipulate the twigs down the chute and use up to an hour doing it you end up with tub just a quarter full. will always check reviews from now on.