Long handle tree loppers

[John Rumm]

The operator will do his own bleep in those circumstances ;-)

[Vir Campestris]

My S&J bypass secateurs are 30 years old. A bit blunt now, and not keen on cutting soft stuff - so I keep them for abuse. IIRC the RHS say anvil have a _shorter_ life, but ymmv.

Andy

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We have a Fiskars one. Has a handy saw blade that can be fitted and a mult-angle head for getting the right angle on awkward bits.

Must be about 5 years old now and still going strong despite trying to chop branches that really needed sawing.

[Huge]

Bought some Darlac ratchet telescopic ones. Seem very effective, if a little heavy, which is not surprising since the cutting gear and ratchet is all made of pretty thick steel. £35 on eBay.

I have 17 fruit trees and several hundred yards of hedges(*), so they'll get good use.

(* In the garden. The ones in the paddock get a tractor mounted flail run over them.)