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.

Loppers are long-handled pruners that extend the cutting reach, and some have telescoping handles. Use loppers for trimming trees, cutting large woody stems and clearing brush.

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 ...

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 ...

8. 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 ...

Loppers are overgrown pruners with long handles for extra leverage. As with pruners, opt for bypass-type blades instead of anvil types.

Students in the University of Delaware’s “Introduction to Environmental Literature” class regularly put aside their books and journals and head out of the classroom to a nearby state park. There, they ...

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 ...

It is important to know how and when to prune your viburnum shrubs. This is because if you cut them back in the wrong season or when conditions are unfavorable you won't get as many flowers and ...

Loppers are overgrown pruners with long handles for extra leverage. As with pruners, opt for bypass-type blades instead of anvil types.

Chrystal Spano and Delsa Jim prowl the forest floor with long-handled loppers, snipping off fir seedlings and brush that shade young huckleberry plants. A quick cut removes the competition and ...