I've been off this forum for a few years - I found a cheap source of German tobacco, which until the past few months was reliable. I then started to look at some of my previously grown tobacco. I used my shredding machine, which worked OK, but then I realised that some of the stored tobacco was dry, so I simply crushed it by hand. It worked great in the machine with tobacco tubes. Makes we wonder why I went to so much trouble to shred, years ago. Anyone else have any views?