Each summer resident has the necessary tools in his household. With their help, plants growing on the site are cut and formed. How to choose garden shears, what pruning shears are, read in this article.
Garden shears
This hand tool is necessary for working in the garden or vegetable garden. With the help of scissors, crowns of fruit and ornamental trees are formed, berry bushes, vineyards are cut, grass is cut on lawns. The tool consists of cutting knives connected by hinges, two handles and a spring clip.
For the manufacture of scissors, high quality steel is used. But the tool is not suitable for trimming thick branches, since plant stems can be damaged during operation. Garden shears are called a universal tool.
Bushes pruning equipment
Choosing a garden tool, you need to focus on the amount of regularly performed work. For cutting the shrubs that enclose the territory, use two-handed scissors, the blades of which are long and have pointed ends. They are called manual brush cutters. Larger plants should be ennobled with scissors whose blade has jagged or wavy edges. The knife of such a tool would be better to hold the branch, you can not be afraid that it accidentally slips out. Small shrubs are perfectly cut with scissors with a short blade that has straight edges.
Garden shears for bushes can be applied and in those cases when it is necessary to trim extra leaves. Knives of manual brush cutters are often covered with a layer of protection against metal corrosion and vegetation sticking. They are coated with zinc, teflon or other material. However, you should know that with repeated sharpening of the knives, the coating is removed, and the brush cutter will quickly become unsuitable for garden work. Now they produce garden tools, in which old knives can easily be replaced with new ones.
Grass shears
This tool is an indispensable tool when you need to ennoble vegetation on lawns in places inaccessible to equipment. Scissors perfectly cut it, and the entire length of the knife is involved in this process, and not just its upper part. Garden shears are produced different models. There are scissors turning at an angle. Some models have elongated handles, which allows you to mow the lawn not in a horizontal position, but in a vertical position.
When buying a tool, you first need to try garden scissors on your hand and try it out in practice. If you cut an escape with a well-adjusted and sharpened tool, this place will be flat, without any dents.
Cordless scissors
Battery-powered garden tools have autonomous power, which is why it is widely used for summer cottage and garden works. Cordless clippers are designed to cut grass on lawns, weeds and roots in gardens. They are called lawn. Such scissors are domestic and professional. The equipment of different models is also different. In order not to make a mistake in choosing and acquire good garden shears, you need to carefully study the parameters of the tool:
- The frequency of movement of the cutting knife. An indicator is considered good if its figure reaches ninety movements of the blade in one minute.
- Smoothness of movement. Cutting grass with a "ragged" character will not bring good results.
- The size of the branches, the permissible diameter of which for household tools is twelve to sixteen millimeters. Professional models have other options.
- Size and magnitude of blade travel. Knives differ in different lengths, but the range of their movement is limited by the size of the branches and rarely more than two and a half centimeters.
- Continuous operation time. It should be borne in mind that one battery charge is enough, at most, for two hours.
- The quality of the edges of the blade. If they are made of high quality steel and the warranty period is long, it is likely that the clippers will last a long time.
Varieties of secateurs
- Inoculative. Such a pruner is needed when fruit, conifers or other plants are inoculated. It is equipped with a knife that has an omega shape. It is enough to choose the branches of the scion, stock that are the same in thickness, the right time, and one hundred percent splicing result is guaranteed.
- Two-handed secateurs. You can not do without it if you need to cut thick branches, the diameter of which is more than three centimeters, or they can not be reached with an ordinary tool. This pruner is called a delimber. It is equipped with long handles and complex levers, one of which is a ratchet gear. This pruner is also called a garden monster. It easily cuts thick branches with a diameter of six centimeters.
- A barbell pruner is used when you need to work at such a height that other instruments of this kind cannot reach. It is called a high-altitude delimber. This tool has a telescopic rod, so the gardener reaches the very top of the tree. Garden shears for trees can cut any branch.
- Secateurs with an anvil. Cuts dry and old branches with a diameter of three centimeters. The blades open wide. The tool is designed so that its design exerts force on the branch during cutting, and the anvil is the bottom blade.
- The secateurs bypass, or standard. It is used when you need to trim live branches. The cutting part of the tool is represented by a movable knife and a fixed stop. This pruning is gentle.
One of the best models is the secateurs of the company Fiskars (Finland). Secateurs of the German company Gardena are no less popular among gardeners. A very popular instrument of the Japanese manufacturer - ARS.
Garden secateurs
This tool is the most common. He enjoys well-deserved respect among summer residents. Cutting is carried out due to the movement of a sharp blade across the branch, which remains stationary and does not slide back and forth. Garden secateurs are of two types: with bilateral cutting of branches and one-sided. The first has two cutting blades, and the second has one cutting and one support. Both secateurs leave a clean cut on the branch that quickly heals. The blades of double-sided pruning shears move towards each other until the branch is cut by one of them and the other slides on the surface from the inside. This blade has a curved shape, and there is a groove for draining the juice of plants. This type of secateurs is well known to summer residents. It is used when pruning branches of living trees.
A single-blade pruner is used to remove dead branches. They are not recommended to prune fruiting fruit trees, as the branch is squeezed during operation, which prevents the plants from healing quickly. Secateurs have different handles. For some instruments, they rotate in different directions. It is very convenient and no corns are formed on the hands.
How to sharpen secateurs?
First, the scissors are disassembled and washed. For this, warm water, soap and a washing device, such as a toothbrush, are needed. To wash stubborn stains from plant sap or contamination of other origin, you need to take sandpaper or metal shavings and clean this place.
You can sharpen dirt on the grinding device. If one is not available, a file with a bar is used. There is no fundamental difference between the sharpening of the pruning shears and the knife.