Are anvil loppers better?

An anvil cut is more powerful than a bypass cut with minimal effort required. Ideal for the powerful pruning of dead wood. Bypass cutting tools have two sharpened blades that pass over each other to make a clean and precise healthy cut in a scissor action.

What do you use an anvil lopper for?

Anvil loppers and pruners tend to crush the material that is being cut and are used where cleanliness of cut is not as important as removal. This occurs when cutting dead material or making preparatory cuts – those cuts that occur before the final cut is made.

What is the difference between bypass loppers and anvil loppers?

Anvil pruners, though seemingly similar-looking to bypass pruners, feature a sharp blade and a metal surface, or pocket, that the blade crushes upon. Whereas bypass pruners, with their slightly more scissor-like appearance, feature a sharp blade and a counter blade.

What size lopper should I buy?

If having trees of average height in the yard, then pick the lopper with a 28-inch handle to do your lawn work. For dealing with taller trees, go for the model having a 32-inch handle. Also, telescopic handles can reach up to a 40-feet height that allows cutting the tallest branches.

What is the difference between a lopper and a pruner?

Pruners are one-handed tools used for smaller branches and stems around half an inch or less in width. Loppers are two-handed tools that are used for medium-size branches and stems that are too big for hand pruners but are thinner than 1 to 1.5 inches. (For larger branches/stems use a pruning saw.)

What are ratchet loppers?

Recently, Fiskars introduced a new anvil style lopper known as the Ratchet Drive lopper, which is intended to make it easier to cut through tough branches. Anvil loppers have one straight blade that cuts as it closes onto a flat edge or ‘anvil’ (think about it like a knife on a chopping board).