How to choose hand pruners

Hand pruners handle your everyday cuts on stems and small branches. Bypass pruners cut like scissors for clean wounds on living, green wood that heal faster; anvil pruners crush onto a flat edge and are best kept for dry deadwood.

Size the pruner to the wood: our Corona bypass models are rated by maximum cut diameter from 1/2 in. up to a forged 1 in., so pick a capacity at or above your typical branch to cut in one pass. For anything thicker, move up to loppers or a pruning saw.

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