Garden Tools - Focus on Fiskars

Pruners are a staple of gardeners everywhere. They are used for tasks as delicate as cutting small flowers to lopping huge limbs off of trees. There are basically two types of Fiskars Pruners, bypass pruners and anvil pruners.

Bypass pruners are they type that have one blade pass by the other in a fashion similar to the way scissors cut. The advantage to these is that they give a very clean cut when they do the pruning. The disadvantage is that they don't develop as much leverage as the anvil pruners, and there is also a tendency when cutting large branches or stems for the blades to separate. For these reasons they are best used for smaller cutting jobs.

The anvil pruners are the style where the cutting blade presses down on a cutting surface, often one where the mating surface is a V shape. These are good for cutting larger branches and stems. The handle can be longer, and the blade can have a little more girth for cutting larger items.

For very large pruning jobs, they have added the Fiskars Pruning Stiks to the line. These have extensible handles and a power head that is fantastic for pruning branches on trees, and are lightweight enough that even people with smaller builds have no problem using them.

The Fiskars Axes are one of the premier wood splitting tools on the market today. These axes and hatchets are renowned for having a very sharp blade. The blade also has a coating to keep it sharp and free of rust. The handle is made of a Nyglass composite, and the handle is molded around the head to make it almost impossible for the head to fly off. The handle is flared at the end to keep it from flying out of your hand.

The head is lighter than a normal wood maul, and the back face can be used as a sledge if you want. Because of the shorter handle and the light weight head, these axes can be used by almost any adult, although it does take some getting used to if you are accustomed to using a traditional maul becuase of the shorter handle. The high end models also come with a nice carrying case that covers the head.