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Cutting-edge clippers: gardening.(Front Lines)(Evaluation)
Whether you have a hedge to prune or just a single shrub to groom, manual hedge clippers should be basic gardening equipment. The more trimming you do, the more important it is for them to be comfortable and convenient to use.
We tested seven hedge clippers, $10 to $72, some conventional and others with designs that promise to make pruning easier or less tiring. Gardeners on our staff and two master-gardener volunteers trimmed boxwood and privet hedges, dwarf spruce trees, and vines. Two clippers emerged as winners.
A CUT ABOVE
The ARS8R, $55 from the A.M. Leonard catalog (www.amleo.com),was one of the best and one of the priciest. Gardeners liked its light weight (1 14 pounds) and nicely shaped, comfortable handles. Blades are short--6 34 inches vs. 9 12 inches on standard clippers. Shorter blades meant nearly twice as many clips to trim a 2-by-2-foot section of hedge. Still, master gardener Nancy Jorgensen-Niemi, of Clovis, Calif., says, "I could work with them all day. They have every quality I could want in manual hedge clippers." The tension knob adjusts easily, and the clipper's blades can be resharpened.
Jorgensen-Niemi aptly described the Eagle T.F.E. as "small but mighty." Its short ...
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