Comments on: Life’s too short to fight with a lame shredder http://paperjammed.com/2009/06/16/lifes-too-short-to-fight-with-a-lame-shredder/ Has paper taken over your life? Fri, 26 Feb 2010 18:27:25 +0000 http://wordpress.org/?v=2.9.2 hourly 1 By: Tad http://paperjammed.com/2009/06/16/lifes-too-short-to-fight-with-a-lame-shredder/comment-page-1/#comment-2668 Tad Tue, 23 Jun 2009 00:55:47 +0000 http://paperjammed.com/?p=577#comment-2668 Good point. My only real long-term experience with a strip-cut shredder was when I was on temporary duty in the Navy, facing a hallway filled with boxes, and one great big industrial-strength shredder. The beast simply spewed its product out the back end into a waiting barrel. We filled full-size trash bags at a stupendous rate, shredding non stop all day long. Sadly, the actual content of the records we were shredding was rather dull and uninteresting. No missile plans; just recruit medical reports and such. I like the pre-staged piles idea. Good point. My only real long-term experience with a strip-cut shredder was when I was on temporary duty in the Navy, facing a hallway filled with boxes, and one great big industrial-strength shredder. The beast simply spewed its product out the back end into a waiting barrel. We filled full-size trash bags at a stupendous rate, shredding non stop all day long.

Sadly, the actual content of the records we were shredding was rather dull and uninteresting. No missile plans; just recruit medical reports and such.

I like the pre-staged piles idea.

]]> By: Joolz http://paperjammed.com/2009/06/16/lifes-too-short-to-fight-with-a-lame-shredder/comment-page-1/#comment-2500 Joolz Wed, 17 Jun 2009 16:57:53 +0000 http://paperjammed.com/?p=577#comment-2500 I originally had a strip-cut shredder but swapped it for a cross cut, not for security reasons but more for capacity, as I found that the strip shredded waste took up a lot more room than cross cut - which equals more emptying of the bin! A good tip I found was if you are shredding a lot of pages to stack them into smaller piles first; say 5-6 pages vertically, then 5-6 pages horizontally, then 5-6 vertically again. I found that I spent more time trying to grab the right number of pages that I knew wouldn't jam the shredder than shredding, so batching that task up beforehand meant I could focus purely on the shredding part. I originally had a strip-cut shredder but swapped it for a cross cut, not for security reasons but more for capacity, as I found that the strip shredded waste took up a lot more room than cross cut – which equals more emptying of the bin!
A good tip I found was if you are shredding a lot of pages to stack them into smaller piles first; say 5-6 pages vertically, then 5-6 pages horizontally, then 5-6 vertically again. I found that I spent more time trying to grab the right number of pages that I knew wouldn’t jam the shredder than shredding, so batching that task up beforehand meant I could focus purely on the shredding part.

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