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Two excellent pruners for small hands: gardening.(Evaluation)
Gardening has never been more popular, and most gardeners are women. This got toolmakers thinking: Tools for smallish hands make for big business.
For this report, we focused on small-scale pruners, one of the most essential tools in a gardener's arsenal. We tested four--all of them "bypass" pruners. They work like scissors, with two blades that pass each other in the cutting motion to make clean cuts in green and dead wood.
All were less than 8 inches long, under a half pound in weight, and priced from $7 to $35. Three are designed for right-handed use but may also be used by lefties. We compared them with two larger models, the Fiskars PowerGear 7936 and the Felco 2, which rated Excellent and Very Good, respectively, in our garden tools report in June 1999.
Our staff and master gardeners in Georgia and Minnesota tested the pruners.
Versatility is the most important characteristic, says master gardener Kay Mills of Augusta, Ga. "They should cut something as easy as a perennial, and they should be able to take on a pretty good size branch." ...
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