Tree Pruning Equipment Purchasing Tips

By Robert Olson


Gardening can involve lots of pruning. Instead of just grabbing whatever remotely appropriate tool it helps to know, as well to own, the right tool. It is worth buying good pruning tools, even for the casual gardener, and certainly for the serious one. Here are the main Pruning Equipment I use.

A trimming saw - I love my trimming saw, a gift from my wife. It gets the least use among my trimming tools but is the right tool for older and thicker branches as well as most dead branches. It folds for storage and transport, and the blade is safely covered when it's folded.

Improvising, as opposed to using the proper gardening equipment, may seem like a sloppy way to get things accomplished. However, this is simply not true. Every dedicating gardener knows when you are in the middle of a task, you do not want to drop everything to search for a certain gardening tool. It is distracting, so as opposed to interrupting their work, gardeners tend to improvise.

Recently, a number of useful, innovative trimming tools have come on the market for the homeowner. Here are a few listing their advantages: Rope Saws make it much easier, more convenient, and safer to cut high tree limbs. You simply toss the weight over the selected limb, pull down on the ropes while you keep standing on the ground enabling you to reach the area that needs trimming without climbing or using a ladder.

They main thing to remember about garden equipment is we may want it, but we don't always need it. As gardeners, if we have the basic gardening tools, we should be able to make do just fine. Even though we may be tempted to rush out and purchase the newest and greatest revolutions to the gardening world, however, it is not necessary to make these purchases in order to make your garden look great. In most cases, improvisation does work.

You can clean your pruners with oil or a distillate product like WD-40, but you'll use a lot of labor to remove the dirt because the dirt is water soluble and you'll be removing the dirt with a fluid that won't loosen water soluble dirt. You can use abrasion, such as steel wool, to remove the dirt but unless you're careful you'll damage the tool's cutting edges.

A product called EZ-Cut will loosen trimming tool dirt without the use of abrasion. EZ-Cut is a non-toxic / non-flammable fluid that is sprayed on trimming tool blades, and it prevents rust. EZ-Cut contains a vegetable oil lubricant to maintain smooth operation of trimming tools.

When a diseased plant is cut with a pruner, the fungus or bacteria from the disease can deposit on the pruner and spread the disease to healthy plants when they're pruned. EZ-Cut contains a disinfectant that will kill fungus or bacteria that cause plant disease cross contamination with the use of trimming tools. EZ-Cut even has a pleasant smelling lemon odor that drives away flies and mosquitoes. Remember to use restraint when trimming your newly planted trees. Prune only to remove damaged, broken, or diseased branches. A good rule of thumb is to prune as little as possible.




About the Author: