How to choose a garden shears. Secateurs for garden and professional

Each summer resident has in his household the necessary tools. With their help, the plants growing on the plot are cut and formed. How to choose a garden shears, what are secateurs, read in this article.

Shears for garden

This hand tool is required for working in the garden or vegetable garden. With the help of scissors, crowns of fruit and ornamental trees are formed, pruned berry bushes, vineyards, shear grass on lawns. The tool consists of cutting knives connected by hinges, two handles and a spring clip.

High quality steel is used for the manufacture of scissors. But for the cutting of thick branches, the tool is not suitable, because during operation stems of plants can be damaged. Garden scissors are called a universal tool.

Harvesting equipment

Choosing a garden tool, you need to focus on the amount of regularly performed work. For cutting the bush, which fences the territory, use two-handed scissors, the blades of which have a long length and pointed ends. They are called hand bush cutters. Large plants are better ennobled with scissors, the blade of which has jagged or wavy edges. The knife of such a tool will better hold the branch, you can not be afraid that it will accidentally slip. Small shrubs are perfectly cut with scissors with a short blade that has straight edges.

Garden shears for bushes Can apply and In those cases when it is necessary to cut off excess leaves. Knives of hand brush cutters are often covered with a layer of protection against metal corrosion and sticking of vegetation. They are coated with zinc, Teflon or other material. However, you should know that when the knives are re-sharpened, the coating is removed, and the brush cutter will quickly become unsuitable for garden work. Now produce a garden tool, which can easily replace old knives with new ones.

Scissors for cutting grass

This tool is an indispensable assistant when it is necessary to improve vegetation on lawns in areas inaccessible to technology. Scissors perfectly cut it, and in this process involved the entire length of the knife, not just its upper part. Manufacture of garden hand scissors Different models. There are angled scissors. Some models have elongated handles, which makes it possible to cut a lawn not in a horizontal position, but in a vertical one.

When buying a tool, you first need to try on the garden shears to your hand and try it out in practice. If a well-adjusted and sharpened tool cut the shoot, then this place will be even, without any jams.

Cordless Scissors

The garden stock on batteries has an autonomous power supply, due to which it is widely used for country and garden work. Cordless garden shears are designed for cutting grass on lawns, weeds and roots in orchards and gardens. They are called lawns. Such scissors are household and professional. The configuration of different models is also different. In order not to make a mistake in choosing and purchasing good garden shears, you need to carefully study the parameters of the tool:

• Frequency of movement of the cutting knife. The indicator is considered good if its figure reaches ninety displacements 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 in household tools is twelve to sixteen millimeters. Professional models have other parameters.
• The size and magnitude of the blades. Knives differ in different lengths, but the range of their movement is limited by the size of branches and rarely more than two and a half centimeters.
• Operating time in continuous mode. It should be borne in mind that one charge of the battery 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, chances are that the garden shears will last long.

Varieties of pruners

• Vaccinated. Such secateurs are necessary when planting fruit, conifers or other plants. It is equipped with a knife that has an omega shape. It is enough to choose the same branches of the scion, the rootstock, the right time, and the 100% splice result is guaranteed.
• Two-Handed Secateurs. You can not do without it if you need to cut thick branches that are more than three centimeters in diameter, or you can not get them with a regular tool. This pruner is called a lop-cutter. It is equipped with long handles and complex levers, one of which is a ratchet reducer. This secateur is called a garden monster. It easily cuts off thick branches with a diameter of six centimeters.

• The prick rod pruner is used when it is necessary to work at a height where other tools of this kind can not be reached. It is called a high-altitude woodchip. This tool has a telescopic bar, so that the gardener reaches the top of the tree. Garden shears for trees can cut any branch.
• Secateurs with an anvil. It cuts dry and old branches three centimeters in diameter. The blades are wide open. The tool is designed so that its design exerts an effort on the branch during cutting, and the anvil is the grass blade.
• Secateur bypass, or standard. It is used when you need to cut live branches. The cutting part of the tool is represented by a movable knife and a fixed stop. This pruning is characterized by a gentle character.

One of the best models is considered a secateur company Fiskars (Finland). Equally popular among gardeners are the pruners of the German firm Gardena. Very popular and the tool of the Japanese manufacturer - ARS.

Garden pruner

This tool is the most common. He enjoys well-deserved respect from summer residents. Pruning is carried out due to the movement of the sharp blade across the branch, which remains fixed and does not slip back and forth. Garden pruners can be of two types: with two-sided cutting of branches and one-sided. The first has two cutting blades, while the second one has one cutting and one supporting blade. Both pruners leave a clean cut on the branch, which quickly heals. The blades of the pruners with two-sided cutting move towards each other until the branch cuts through one of them and the other slides over the surface from the inside. This blade has a curved shape, and there is a groove for the flow of plant juice. This type of secateurs is well known to summer residents. It is used when pruning branches of living trees.

Secateurs with a single-sided blade are used to remove dead branches. They are not recommended to prune fruit-bearing fruit trees, because during operation the branch is squeezed, which does not allow rapid healing of plants. Handles for secateurs are different. For some instruments, they turn in different directions. It is very convenient and no calluses are formed on the hands.

How to sharpen the secateur?

First, the scissors are disassembled and washed. To do this, you need warm water, soap and a device for washing, for example, a toothbrush. To wash stubborn stains from the juice of plants or pollution of other origin, you need to take sandpaper or metal shavings and clean this place.

You can make the grinding of dirt on the grinding device. If there is not one, a file with a bar is used. The principal difference between sharpening the pruner and knife is not.