Metal Shears For Your Garden

While walking around your garden one day, you noticed that your bushes or trees have already overgrown and that some of the branches are starting to drop down. You realized it’s time for you to trim the branches of your trees or the bushes to bring back their beauty and prevent possible accidents later on.

When trimming hedges, of course you need garden tools to do the job since you can’t trim the hedges using your bare hands. But in trimming hedges, you don’t need just any ordinary garden tools considering that trees often have much thicker branches compared to flowering plants like roses. What you need are metal shears that can really cut the hedges without crushing them.

Metal shears can greatly help you in cutting bushes or small trees. They can either be used manually or electric-powered.

If you don’t like to work in a noisy environment, then use metal shears that are operated using your hand. This type of garden tool is friendly to the environment since it doesn’t produce noise. You can easily use manual metal shears since you can control the cutting with your hands. For extreme comfort, choose those with rubber handles and easy grip to prevent injuries or abrasions to your hands. There’s just one advantage in using this type of garden tool – it might not work fast compared to powered metal shears since the cutting all depends on the force that you exert on the handle. If you won’t push too hard, the hedge won’t cut off. If you find this bothersome, then use those powered by electricity.

Electric-powered metal shears can do the cutting in a snap without much effort. All you need to do is turn on the power and cut the hedges that you want to get rid of. Choose those with high speed steel blade and easy on-and-off thumb switch. Just take extra precaution when using this tool since one false move might cause injuries to your hands.

One disadvantage in using this type of tool is that it requires an electrical cord so be patient in moving the cord around. Or you may opt to use a long cord so you don’t have to move the cord so often.

In planning to buy any garden tools like the metal shears, choose those that are sharp, durable and comfortable to use to make your work in the garden easy and fast.