"LOPPERS" Best HOMESTEAD tool for the money......PERIOD.

[Sourdough]

If you have never owned or operated a large pair of "LOPPERS", you have been cheating yourself. Dollar for Dollar the most useful homestead tool. You can get a good pair of "Loppers" for $30.00 (Bigger is better). Some style operating/design systems are better also.

This is just my opinion, if you have never owned/operated this tool. Avoid "Bypass" style. Anvil style is better. Only go with "COMPOUND" style (4 bar compound linkage triples your cutting power). It reduces the physical work to close them. And bigger is better.

 

[Wingnut]

Great tool, like bolt-cutters but meant for wood... the leverage comes in handy, as opposed to garden shears. I'm sure that mobsters and cartel goons have used loppers to lop off fingers, toes, and whatever else during torture sessions... but I like my loppers, they really DO come in handy here at the ol' hacienda, and I'm only on 1/2 acre, lol.

 

[Neb]

If you have never owned or operated a large pair of "LOPPERS", you have been cheating yourself. Dollar for Dollar the most useful homestead tool. You can get a good pair of "Loppers" for $30.00 (Bigger is better). Some style operating/design systems are better also.

This is just my opinion, if you have never owned/operated this tool. Avoid "Bypass" style. Anvil style is better. Only go with "COMPOUND" style (4 bar compound linkage triples your cutting power). It reduces the physical work to close them. And bigger is better.

I have bypass racheting loppers. They are marketed for women which means easier to use. I just have to remember to not force it and bend the handles.

Ben

 

[Bacpacker]

I have a set of Corona Loppers with extendable handles. They make getting into low or high places easier. But you do need to watch how much force you apply. I have backed off a couple times I felt like could damage them. They are a by-pass model and I have had zero problem with them. Never cared for anvil types. Seems like they never cut cleanly.
But I agree loppers are very handy tools

 

[zoomzoom]

I have at least 5 loppers. Best tool for the money for me... the chainsaw.

 

[Neb]

I can do better with some pictures.

This is my tool holster I take to the orchard.

It contains most of what I use maintain the trees.

Samurai saw for large branches.

Bypass pruners.

Japanese weeding tool.

Hedge clippers with extendable handles.

Loppers.

Loppers with handles collapsed.

Handles extended.

Ratcheting head.

Depending on how hard the wood is it can cut almost 2". The limit is the handles which are extruded aluminum that I could probably bend it I went all brute mode.

Ben

 

[Neb]

I can do better with some pictures.

This is my tool holster I take to the orchard.

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It contains most of what I use maintain the trees.

View attachment 110917

Samurai saw for large branches.

Bypass pruners.

Japanese weeding tool.

Hedge clippers with extendable handles.

Loppers.

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Loppers with handles collapsed.

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Handles extended.

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Ratcheting head.

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Depending on how hard the wood is it can cut almost 2". The limit is the handles which are extruded aluminum that I could probably bend it I went all brute mode.

Ben

Bonus note

When I am digging holes to transplant trees I often encounter tree roots that make digging a pain. The lopper make short order of the roots. With long handles I don't have to bend over.

Ben

 

[Neb]

I have at least 5 loppers. Best tool for the money for me... the chainsaw.

3" and above. Yup!

Ben

 

[Amish Heart]

I have some loppers, just thought they were called the big cutters.

 

[Wingnut]

Okay, AH, that'll be 50 push-ups, BWAHAHAHAHAHAHA!!! 100 if ya drop the loppers in the dirt, AYE???

 

[Pearl]

Okay, AH, that'll be 50 push-ups, BWAHAHAHAHAHAHA!!! 100 if ya drop the loppers in the dirt, AYE???

And we want video proof!!

 

[Wingnut]

Of what? The push-ups, or dropping the loppers in the dirt?

 

[Pearl]

B

Of what? The push-ups, or dropping the loppers in the dirt?

Both!!

 

[Supervisor42]

I have some loppers, just thought they were called the big cutters.

<Sarcasm>
I hate loppers.
Every time I see them come out, it means that I have a ton of branches to tote out to the road.
The trees all look fine to me, but she says that every one of them needs to be 'trimmed'.

 

[Pearl]

<Sarcasm>
I hate loppers.
Every time I see them come out, it means that I have a ton of branches to tote out to the road.
The trees all look fine to me, but she says that every one of them needs to be 'trimmed'.

I'll send my Hubby your way! He'll intend to trim one or two little branches and gets carried away!!

 

[Amish Heart]

I've got one that really needs the loppers. Little granddaughters says, "Noooo.....", she likes how the branches droop and she has some yard furniture under there. Husband just saw it and said it needed lopping.

 

[Bacpacker]

I can do better with some pictures.

This is my tool holster I take to the orchard.

View attachment 110916

It contains most of what I use maintain the trees.

View attachment 110917

Samurai saw for large branches.

Bypass pruners.

Japanese weeding tool.

Hedge clippers with extendable handles.

Loppers.

View attachment 110918

Loppers with handles collapsed.

View attachment 110919

Handles extended.

View attachment 110920

Ratcheting head.

View attachment 110922

View attachment 110924

Depending on how hard the wood is it can cut almost 2". The limit is the handles which are extruded aluminum that I could probably bend it I went all brute mode.

Ben

Where did you holster come from. Looks like a good set up. I wind up using a 5 gallon bucket

 

[Neb]

Where did you holster come from. Looks like a good set up. I wind up using a 5 gallon bucket

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Ben

 

[Alaskajohn]

We use ours all the time. Lopper get near daily use on our compound.

 

[backlash]

I have several pair of loppers and two pole saws. One electric and one manual.
When I get out the electric pole saw I always have a huge pile of limbs to deal with.
Every spring I get the loppers out and cut the rose bushes down to about a foot tall.
I'm hoping I kill all the roses one day but so far they just keep coming back.
My cousin gave my wife 24 rose bushes and every last one survives.

 

[Bacpacker]

Thanks Neb

 

[elkhound]

loppers and pruners = shooting lanes for deer