Better Garden Tools Compact Ratchet Pruner for Smaller Hands

Maybe this tool is only recommended for the big job, but I also need it to perform when cutting roses, butterfly bushes, and other plants. It just squeezes the plants and doesn't give a smooth cut. I'm disappointed, but I am comparing it to a ratchet pruner I got from Cutco 20 years ago which still works splendidly. Maybe your product just can't compare, even though it was expensive in my opinion.

This is everything anyone with smaller hands would want in a compact ratcheted pruner so if you're looking for one stop now and buy this one. This is my second one and I couldn't be happier. What happened to the first one? Someone walked off with it ... in a bizarre way that's probably yet another testimony to how good it is!!! The action is smooth and faultless, the sizing is perfect, the safety catch engages and releases quickly and easily yet when engaged, stays engaged. It's light in weight and I even like the colors of their black and orange ... yes I admit I like the color of Black & Decker black and orange tools too ... anyway I'm extremely happy with this product. I first discovered it at a Philadelphia Flower Show demonstration several years ago. There, the kiosk vendor had lots of sticks of varying sizes and types so you could try the pruner out in real life with real sticks before buying it. It worked fantastically well so I bought it. And as you now know from reading this, I just bought it a second time!

My hands are badly damaged (carpal tunnel) but with these I can do all the trimming in the yard. I literally cannot use other trimmers. And, you would be amazed at the size of limbs/branches you can manage with these. I love them. I even gave a pair to friends

Bought original at a home garden show and wore it out. This is the best pruner and so easy to use. Very happy I was able to find another. Definitely worth buying.

This pruner is great, pump a few times to get through thicker branches, I own one and bought this as a gift. Easy on the hands and cuts through any branch that it fits around!

I've been using Florian ratchet pruners for years, these pruners don't come close to working as well. The pruner head is very clunky and the ratcheting mechanism doesn't ratchet very well.

I love this ratchet pruner enough to buy a second one. It easily cuts through 1" limbs. I've coerced it into cutting larger limbs just be readjusting the position of the pruner after cutting half way through. I have arthritis in my hands, am retired and old (lets just say over 60). Love it.

The ratchet system works amazingly well even on branches 2" thick.