Sharpening your loppers for trimming or pruning is an important part of making sure your bushes and trees get the best care. Here how to do it.

When I joined a national garden club several ages ago, my thank you gift was a shiny bypass pruner with green handles. It took only a few clippings before the blades dulled and shredded plant ...

This pruner requires two hands, but it’s much more compact than traditional long-handled loppers, so it lets you apply maximum leverage in tight places, a bonus when trying to make cuts in small ...

Long-Handled Bypass Lopper. This tool takes a basic approach to providing maximum cutting power and performance. First, its ash handles are about 2 ft. long. Suedelike rubber grips on the handles ...

Loppers. Your little hand-held pruners are good for branches up to about one-quarter of an inch, but for bigger tree and shrub branches, ... Also a long-handled tool, ...

The PowerGear bypass loppers from Fiskars are a lightweight alternative to heavy, long-handled loppers. The loppers are 21 1/2 inches long, which makes them just the right length to reach into the ...

CORVALLIS, Ore. -- With a pair of long-handled loppers in hand, Jona Engel waded into a willow thicket just south of the Benton County Fairgrounds on a late morning last week and started snipping 2-fo ...

Long-handled loppers: These are like hand shears, but with handles that are a foot or two long to extend your reach when working with trees and shrubs. They typically have larger blades, ...