Hedge trimmer

A hedge trimmer is a gardening tool and is used to trim a hedge or prune back bushes and feststängelige plants ( roses, etc.). Hedge shears are manufactured as hand hedge trimmer or motor- driven ( gasoline or electric motor). Motorized hedge trimmers have little in common with a "normal " scissors. It has a 40 to 70 cm long sword, similar to a mutually intersecting the cutter bar, similar also the sword of a sawfish. At a fixed bar on the right and the left one row of fixed blades are mounted, the distance of the maximum corresponds ( approximately 1.5 to 3.4 cm) to be cut branch diameter. In a second, also occupied with knives bar is moved back and forth, so that the diameter of this bar with the festival parties form a long series of individual shears. This shorten the cutting the hedge very precise.

The hedge trimmer is hand up to 60 cm long shear, the cutting having about 30 cm in length. It has a plier handle and the blade may be curved inward, but most modern serrated cutting edges are provided. The long wooden handles (or pipes) to a favorable lever action and the plant parts unfolds can be cleanly cut and with a blank. To ensure a safe cutting, the cutting blades should be sharpened regularly.