The Home Orchard Handbook by Cem Akin

Author:Cem Akin
Language: eng
Format: epub
Publisher: Rockport Publishers
Published: 2011-06-19T16:00:00+00:00

TOOLS

Have hand shears, loppers, a handsaw, pole pruner, and pole saw available to maintain the home orchard. Visually inspect all tools before, and clean tools after each use. Before and after the main seasonal pruning, thoroughly clean, sharpen, and lubricate all pruning tools. Learn to maintain tools properly to ensure their usefulness and your safety.

Hand shears, loppers, and pole pruners are basically the same tool with handles of different lengths—they are all shears. The way a pair of shears cuts a stem depends on the style of the shears: anvil or bypass. Anvil shears push the blade through the stem to a stop on a flat surface on the other handle, the anvil. Stems get crushed a little against the anvil, increasing injury. With bypass shears the blade “passes by” the stop, like a pair of scissors, and the stem is not crushed. Bypass shears are preferred; choose them when possible. Keeping blades properly sharpened is essential to minimizing pruning injury with either style of shears.

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