Share by Email. Fiskars Lopper With Telescopic Handles. SKU: 00832689. Pruning trees is often one of a gardener's trickiest challenges. More powerful than pruners and more accurate than The telescoping handles allow the lopper to be extended to the desired length, helping you reach.
The Fiskars Telescoping Lopper makes quick work of gardening and landscaping. The Fiskars Lopper and Bonus Pruner Set features a telescoping design and steel blades for long life. The Lopper Pruner set allows you to tackle big and small jobs in your yard.
The lopper measures from 24' to 37' and has 1-1/2' cutting capacity. The pruner features a comfort grip and has a 1/2' cutting capacity. Both the lopper and pruner tools can be used for keeping up landscaping and gardens with ease and make quick work of weeds. The lopper is ideal for trimming bushes and removing small branches from trees that may have dead or damaged limbs. Keep your lawn and garden manicured and maintained with this set of two tools.
The first time I used it, I made maybe 25 cuts in branches 1/4″ to 3/4″ thick. Maybe there were a few 1″ cuts in there. Yesterday, the second time I brought it out, I made about the same number of cuts in smaller branches, and then tried to cut a branch maybe 1″ thick. Looking at some of the reviews at Home Depot, there are very many numerous complaints about its quality, I was trying to cut a thick branch that I thought was well within its cutting capacity. Maybe I was wrong? The capacity for a smaller Fiskars pole pruner is said to be 1-1/4″.
As I was pulling the handle to make the cut, I had a weird gear-slipping-like sound and the head locked up and got stuck around the branch. I eventually got it free, took the pruner inside, and disassembled the head. After spending some time understanding the internals, which weren’t all that complicated, I reassembled it and tried to get it to work. After the third time, everything seemed right. One test on a maybe 3/8″ thick branch and it locked up again.
Maybe some part of the chain was deformed? There’s nothing I can see that is physically broken or damaged, but it still seems there’s nothing I can do to get the pruner back in working condition. I’m going back to Home Depot later today, either for a replacement, or a refund and I’ll pick out a non-telescoping pole pruner that has a more robust mechanism. What I don’t understand is that there’s a Fiskars 54″ tree pruner that looks to have an identical cutter head mechanism, but it has overwhelmingly positive reviews. Maybe I’ll try that one next. Or maybe the issue I experienced with the telescoping pruner is a random and unique failure.
A lot of the complaints about the model I tried are about its flimsy handle. It’s pretty sturdy when not extended, but when it is extended, there is considerable flex in the mechanism. I can understand the reasoning behind it – you can’t have a traditional telescoping mechanism and ropeless design, at least not easily or inexpensively from what I can see.
I really liked the ropeless convenience of this model, until it failed. (via Home Depot) (via Amazon) What I’ll try next: (54-inch pruner via Home Depot) Can you recommend a pole pruner – not a saw – at least 6 feet long? Hey Stuart, I do landscape maintenance and freelance with a local arborist as my livelihood. I will say that I’ve switched from Corona to Fiskars just because of their incredible customer service and warranty. Not to mentioned one of the best shovels that is 100% steel (and under $25 on Amazon) no more broken wood or fiberglass handles.
I digress, I’ve read a lot of the postive and negative reviews on bith Fiskars, Corona and other manufacturers. While a maximum cutting capacity is kinda of like MPG, ymmv esp with the type of tree branch your soft woods, i.e.
Conifiers, evergreens etc can be almost effortless and a sharp chainsaw will go thru them like a hot knife they can be very sappy and cause the blade to bind and catch if not kept clean. While other dense hardwoods besides the well known oak, hickory, etc. Dense hardwoods that you wouldn’t expect to be hard to cut, fruit trees, holly, boxwood, redtips, rhododendren the later are mainly shrubs but can grow quite tall, but you wouldnt think them dense till you got to cut them with a sharp chainsaw or stump grinder and the saw is much slower and can bog. That said the 12′ prunning stick comes with a saw blade for that reason a new blade should easily cut.5.75″ branches with little resistance or effort if it doesn’t cut easily then you should use the blade, even the expensive arborist pole saws and pruners will be challenging on some trees, 1″ even with 2430″ loppers on the ground 1.25-1.5″ can take a lot of effort.
The other thing is if doesn’t cut easily you run the risk of tearing instead of cutting. That said Fiskars has great warranties and no quibble replacements, snap a quickpicture of the damage and email it to them and they will replace it.
Mine’s saw blade got slightly stuck cutting a magnolia limb. That’s not that much of a bind. It was not extended at all and was in the locked position.
When I pulled it it pulled right through the stops. I reinserted the pole.
Same thing immediately happened where there should have been no bind. And it did damage to the cheap fiberglass holes. You’d think those holes would have a reinforce metal eyelet or something better. When looking with it apart you see the problem. The $1 flashlight holder on my mountain bike that holds a sub 4 oz flashlight is much higher grade material than fiskers’ internal holder. Yeah maybe their warranty is great.
I don’t know. I don’t like taking cheap stuff back for more cheap stuff.
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I don’t like taking stuff back period. Lesson learned. This is what the arborist I freelance with uses BAHCO POLE PRUNER & SAW COMBO – P3437FP14 you can also check some if the offerings from Wespur, they have some that are priced below and above the Bahco. I like the Bahco products they were/are owned by MAC tools.
But the same issues apply with Bahco and other brands, sap and wood density, if the cutting head binds its either sap/resin, the branch is thick/dense or the blades is not sharp (less of an issue with a new tool). But the oscillating/articulating head on the fiskars is very handy at times. My wife has used one (hers made in Finland) since 2009 and it is one of her go-to tools for light pruning. I do know that I have had to clear it for her from time to time when something jams it.
She’s volunteered working at a world class botanic garden alongside professional arborists – and when I bought the Fiskars for her she was looking for something lighter in weight than the fiberglass extension pole pruners that she finds difficult to handle. We have an old Jameson sectional pole pruner laying in the garage that will reach to 18 feet – but it always seems to be my job (when asked) to use it – even with only 1 or 2 poles attached. For things beyond the capacity of the Fiskars, she uses one from Silky that is purely a pole-saw.
I think she had me buy it based on her love for a Silky hand pruning saw. I know she also uses hand pruners from Felco and ARS plus other tools from AM Leonard that she likes – and ARS and Leonard make pole pruners that might be worth a look. STUART STUART STUART, sorry to scream but I want to make sure I get your attention. Look into Silky HAYATE pole saws.
Yes I know they are $300. Totally worth it if you are tool-savvy and can even remotely afford it.(Know anybody like that?) They come in three configurations(or so) but they’re all the same basically, just in different lengths. Telescoping aluminum part-hex/part-round pole, with each additional telescoping-handle segment adding approx eight feet additional reach.
Notable features include: 1) The telescoping function locks tighter than a Honda crank bolt. Tighter than a Makita USA rep’s public outreach program. Just flat out the most secure telescoping tool of any brand or type of comparable size.
Do NOT shy away from a certain length configuration because of worries about securing one handle segment to another. Great system; very good tolerances+top shelf retaining pressure bearing+awesome final latch combine with innovative(or logically engineered if you will) pole shape/profile reduces handle’s tendency to act as a sleeve/simple bearing pair. Think of a telescoping basin wrench(plumber’s sink tool type) but with two sides rounded for ergonomics. I’m sure photos/pics will do a better job than me at describing this feature.
Point is it’s a waaay better system than any other pole saw I’ve ever seen. 2) The weight and balance are SUPERB. The most comfortable and effective pole saw on the market. The type of tool that provides a sublime experience evry time you use it.
Turns a difficult(even impossible for some people) chore into a seemingly effortless wonderful moment of joy. Mostly because 3) The saw blade itself. Silky saws are all excellent. But the HAYATE is just unbelievable. No joke-10 inch diameter branches are easily cut in one minute. Sixty seconds. The HAYATE is the (Knipex)pliers-wrench of pole saws.
If the only other pliers in the world were Harbor Freight. HAYATE=pliers-wrench all other pole saws=old cheap Harbor Freight slip-joints.
Check out this saw, even if you’re not looking to buy. Since Silky has low USA market penetration, a review would be a public service for all of your English language readers.
Sorry for such a long and rant-style comment, it’s just that the HAYATE is a damn fine saw. I have that 12ft Fiskars pruner, and have really liked it. Gone out of my way to recommend it to others even, but I’ve not used it enough to verify that its durable.
I saw a video on Fiskars on tv/online (don’t remember which), and was really impressed by the amount of innovation and engineering that go into their products. That doesn’t really happen with most companies, who typically just remanufacture a tried and true design and then figure out a new way of marketing it.
It might come down to that fact that, since Fiskars tries new things, there products haven’t had gone through real world testing by buyers of their product, which naturally will find the weakness in said product. Its why the first year of a new car has a ton of bugs in it, and the 2nd year all of these bugs will be fixed.