User Manual Sun Joe CJ603E-RM Cutting Diameter Electric Silent Wood Chipper/Shredder

Terrible. I purchased it for that reason; I wanted a sturdy, toothed shredder, not one of those glorified string trimmers. However, the feed throat is only 5"x1 1/4", large enough for about five leaves at a time. And those leaves I did feed through the machine came out the discharge chute slightly mangled, but certainly not shredded. I set it in the back of the shed, sadder but wiser, and bought a Toro 51621 UltraPlus shredder vac. Emptying the bag is a hassle, but it really sucks up the leaves, and pulverizes them. If you can handle the leaf dust, it would make quick work of your leaves using it without the bag.

I assume it will work with bamboo because I put through very hard and soft wood branches, but I didn't chip any bamboo.

What you see is what you get. The white plastic insert comes out and you plug in your extension cord. This machine is a beast. It will "devour" a pile of freshly (day old) cut shrubs in a short time. I "processed" a pile of trimmed crape myrtles 12'x12'x4' in less than 2 hours. I chip/shred into a kids plastic swimming pool and then shovel the results into a single 50 gallon bag that weighed nearly 50 lbs. The "beast" never clogged or stopped running the entire 2 hours.