garden shredders

Can anyone tell me if a garden shredder will shredd newspaper please? It may seem a strange question but I use it as horse bedding and the price has doubled per bale recently - I have loads of newspapers each week and it seems a bit crazy to be paying for chopped up paper and recycling my own, thanks in advance

 

I think it will chop it up, leaving something that will compact down - rather than make long thin strips that will be springy & spongy.

If you want the later how about an office shredder?

 

I have tried it - without success. It mashes it to a pulp rather than, as Kristen says, cutting it into strips. But it also does it very slowly, there is little incentive for the mashed paper to fall out of the bottom, so it just swirls round and round in the cutting chamber.

I would be more inclined to try an old chaff cutter. There must still be plenty around in horse and farming circles.

 

Garden shredders are not designed to shred paper, in fact feeding them with paper is a standard way of assessing their resistance to clogging!