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Best Telescopic Loppers -Best Professional Loppers
Top Quality Telescopic Loppers
Telescopic loppers are great at giving the user extra reach and
leverage but the introduction of moving parts presents a potential weakness.
In my experience telescopic loppers fail either by snapping or
the twisting mechanism gets jammed.
This mainly happens if the
arms are made from round tubular steel. This problem is
overcome by using square section metal and locking pins to secure the adjustment.
For long term heavy use Wolf telescopic loppers
are the ones that I recommend (based on 10 years of hard
work with one pair). They will cut live 50mm branches and have the easiest handle adjustment method.
My trusty old Wolf loppers and the new replacement model.
Whilst ratchet loppers sound like a good idea and many
work well, they are prone to breaking if used incorrectly. If you are
a professional gardener it is likely that you will use hired help, and
they may not take the best care of your tools. If this is the case it
can be useful to have some more budget priced tools for your
underlings to use. The Bulldog telescopic ratchet loppers are
ideal for this purpose as they are strong, effective and don't cost too much.

The Bulldog loppers and the Wolf loppers. Bulldog
Telescopic Ratchet Bypass Lopper Wolf-Garten RR 900 Telescopic Power Cut
Wolf Garten - Telescopic Loppers - with arms fully extended and 50mm cut,
The new version of my 10 year old pair is even better and is one of
the few tools I cannot find any fault with whatsoever!
Use the link below for the best price deal- you wont be disappointed.
Wolf-Garten RR 900 Telescopic Power Cut
Wolf Garten Power Cut loppers - they go as big as you can cut with loppers!
Geared Loppers

I have been using geared loppers and shears for many
years now and hundreds of readers have bought them on my recommendations and
provided positive feedback.
This first geared loppers were from Wilkinson Sword and they have now been improved further with the use of lighter stronger
handles.
The Wilkinson Sword brand was bought by MTD of the
USA and the best geared loppers are now made by Fiskars of Finland.
These loppers have the gearing mechanism
that provides extra cutting power but now the tool is 80% hi tech plastic
which makes them ultra light - but still very strong.
Available in 3 sizes! - 2 bypass blade models and a small
anvil version.
Use my links below to make sure you get the latest version
Fiskars L31 (S) PowerGear
Anvil Lopper
Fiskars
L74 (M) PowerGear 2 Bypass Loppers
Fiskars
L78 (L) PowerGear Bypass Lopper
Fiskars geared loppers showing maximum cutting diameters.
Fiskars Quantum Lopper with aluminium handles and cork grips!

Fiskars Quantum Lopper Large Bypass
This is probably the strongest pair of loppers available today.
It is an upgraded version of the black version known as
the Powergear 2.
The cork grips on this model are comfortable and perfect for
users who don't like wearing gloves.
Best Garden Loppers?
Felco Carbon Fibre Swiss Made Pruners

Felco
210C-60 Ultralight Carbon Fibre Loppers 
My favourite loppers over many years are my
Wolf telescopic ones.
But if you want something effective and really fancy, Felco of Switzerland
make these state of the art, carbon fibre handled, bypass loppers.
The blades are made from precision ground, top
quality steel and this tool has the sort of engineering usually seen
in Formula One cars.
The carbon fibre handles make these medium size (24
inches long) loppers extremely light AND very strong.
At around £150 you would expect superb cutting
performance and this is what you get, plus a design statement too.
If
you can afford it and enjoy having the best then you wont be
disappointed.
Or if you want to buy a special present for a serious gardener then these loppers
make the ultimate gardening gift!
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