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The top gasoline-powered hedge trimmers are still fastest at buzzing through thick, dense shrubs. But this year's best plug-in trimmers perform nearly as well, cost far less, and offer more safety features.
Wider gaps between the blade teeth helped our top-scoring gas trimmers cut thicker branches and take in more smaller ones with each pass. But the wider spaces also make it more dangerous if you contact the blades. A voluntary Underwriters Laboratory standard requires that the gap on electric trimmers be small enough to keep out a 34-inch finger-sized probe. But gas trimmers sold in the U.S., which are used more by landscapers, lack such a standard. Putting ...