CornShucker, "The other issue is that, so far, nobody here has been able to give me any thoughts about how the Bearcats do in the shredding department. I want to be able to feed it corn stocks, grape vines, tomato vines and garden debris. Nobody here apparently has used one of these Bearcats for that. I'm going to try to keep this thread alive long enough for a Bearcat owner to show up and give me specific advice." Well, no BearCat user has come forward yet, and I have never used or even seen an actual BearCat, but I am going to venture that if Home Depot makes good on their promise to put that BearCat 70380 in working order, that it will be able to handle your corn stalks, grape vines, tomato vines, and garden debris just fine. It could also process dead leaves from trees very well. I am basing that statement on this BearCat Model 70380/70580 Spec Sheet. (If the print is too small, you can magnify it, because that is a PDF document.) Or you can read this BearCat 70380 information. Notice that the 70380 has swinging serrated knives and a shredder exit screen with holes. It's not exactly a hammermill because it has knives instead of hammers, but the principle is basically the same. The swinging hammers or swinging knives keep "punishing" the material until it is able to escape through the holes in the screen. Also, notice that interchangeable screens are available to let you control how fine or coarse your product will be. If you do buy that BearCat 70380 from Home Depot, you might want to consider purchasing at least one of the optional screens with smaller holes to get a finer product with more surface area for faster composting. I notice it also has an available screen for wet material. If it were me, I would get all of the optional screens: the .75" screen, the .375" screen and the Wet Debris screen. But I would for sure get at least one extra screen and, in my case, it would be the three-eighths screen for the finest possible product texture. MM

My printer does not give me a black line for any other print jobs. When I use the Copy selection or the Print selection in the scanner's main menu, that is when I get the black line. This time I used the Save selection, and printed from there, using the MP Navigator EX box, and it printed without the line. I still don't know why the other two selections don't work right, but at least now, I can print a 'clean' copy. Thanks.

When trying to scan a picture it tell me "disc" is full..what disk? I've had this All In One HP for several years but never had a problem till now. My Grandson did put a new (6 years old) computer in a few months ago.. Thanks

Hi Gene, I have an Epson scanner I bought in 2006 that scans well and allows me to do several things before scanning. It acted up on me one day and my thinking it broke, ordered an all in one Epson/printer/scanner. The all in one scans much faster and of course has a feature different from the 2006 in that when it scans to the file I choose, when done, it opens that file up for me to find the scanned picture where the other one scans to the file and I have to locate the file to open up to find my picture. Otherwise they all scan as good. It's just the features that change if any. I do all my sizing and fixing in a separate software program called PSP7 and or PSP9.