Loppers are a type of scissors used for pruning twigs and small branches, like pruning shears with very long handles. They are the largest type of manual garden cutting tool.

Loppers are pruners with long handles and solid blades for clipping thicker branches that ordinary hand shears cannot cut. This tool prunes overgrowths, thins out dense foliage, deadhead flowers, and cuts soft and hard offshoots. The long handles let you cut accurately at a greater height and tight spaces.

The lopper shears have 32-inch dark orange steel handles and black rubber grips with a gray strip. "FISKARS" is printed on one handle and the model number 6954, is printed on a label on the opposite handle above the barcode.

Our Power-Lever® Lopper features compound lever technology that multiplies your leverage to give you up to two times more cutting power than traditional single-pivot loppers. A fully hardened, precision-ground steel blade stays sharp, and a rust-resistant, low-friction coating makes every cut even easier.

The Two Types of Loppers In terms of their type of cutting action, loppers fall into the same two types as hand pruners: bypass and anvil.

A tree lopper is an unqualified, non-certified person who cuts trees for a nominal fee. And their objectives are purely short-term. They - typically - neither know nor care about the long-term health of the plant they are cutting.

Finland Did you know that many of the popular Fiskars products are designed, manufactured and tested in Finland? Largely thanks to Finnish craftsmanship, Fiskars has come a long way since it was founded as an ironworks in 1649; today, it is one of the oldest companies in the Western world.

In Finland, the garden tools are manufactured by Fiskars Brands Finland's factories in Pinjainen, near the Billnäs ironworks. The factories also manufacture other products, such as scissors and axes.

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Loppers come in two types of cutting styles: bypass and anvil. Scissor-like bypass blades are especially effective on live, green branches. Anvil blades have a single sharp cutting blade that is perfect for stiff dead branches.

Pollarding - The practice of regularly cutting back a tree's crown down to bare branches. It's used to maintain the shape and height of a tree while it's young.

Almost every gardener owns a hand pruner, also called hand shears. That's the scissor-sized tool to clip thinner branches or stems, deadhead flowers, and take off soft shoots. So, what are loppers used for? Loppers are super-sized pruners.

“Tailors' scissors were horrendously expensive, so Fiskars took the shape and cast it in a cheap material – plastic,” said Korvenmaa. “Rather than being forged from iron, the blades were made from pressed steel which was held together by a single piece of metal in the middle.