Why Choose Our Fiskars Pruners?

When cutting, the weight of the tool and the poor working position of the hand and fingers cause static tension, resulting in muscle strain and chaffing of the fingers.

A common element in the Fiskars product family of pruners, loppers, shears and pole pruners is the patented gear mechanism with its slight variations. All design and development takes the following into consideration:
Strength peaks somewhere between age 25-35. People lose approximately 10% of their strength by age 40. By age 50 they lose 15%. By age 60 they lose 20%. By age 65 they lose 25%. And by age 75, strength loss will be around 40%.
In general, adult females are about 2/3 as strong as adult males. However, studies have shown that women have only about 1/2 of the grip strength of men.

PowerGear® Lopper
The totally new kind of gear mechanism increases the cutting power by 230%. Therefore the handles can be made shorter than usual. The lopper becomes light and easy to use.
Manual cutting depends on the arm muscles. In order to avoid strain injuries (such as tenosynovitis), the long-term strain on the muscles must be no more than one fifth of the hand's maximum strength.Constantly exercised components are prone to fatigue fractures. This is why it is important to test the structure's fatigue-resistance in addition to its static breaking strength.
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PowerGear® Hand Pruner
Innovative gear mechanism increases cutting power and makes cutting easier and better balanced. Thanks to the pruner's ergonomic design, less muscle power is needed. The shaping of the lower blade is handy for gripping branches for trimming. The upper blade can be sharpened. A screw allows adjustment of the grip to better fit the hand of the user.
A conical gear mechanism attaches the rotating lower handle to the upper handle. The handle rotates with the action of the fingers, thus preventing chafing. The unique design of the handle means a longer working motion of the index and middle fingers, minimizing the strain on the muscles of the fingers and hand.

PowerGear® Hedge Shears
Another hand pruner with special features Instead of cutting with a single continuous stroke, a multiple squeeze and release action is employed when cutting thicker branches. Cutting is accomplished by using several easy squeezes instead of one hard squeeze allowing those with lower hand strength to still cut larger branches.
When cutting hedges, a bunch of thin branches bend together between the blades and the actual cutting happens at the end of the movement. Therefore, the strength required for cutting is accentuated and multiplies at the end of the cutting movement. Fiskars hedge clippers are designed based on the need to increase the cutting power towards the end of the cutting process.
Variable power transmission has earlier been applied in the Fiskars clearing shears. At first, the same planet gears were used, but with a considerably large clearing. The structure worked well, movement seemed unnatural in the hedge clippers. With an ingenuous, but simple change of structure the scissors were made symmetrical ­ using the same two asymmetrical parts, plus their two mirror images. Compared to conventional ones, these hedge clippers give 3.5 times more power to the cutting process.

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