Felco

A most remunerative area of income is pruning of shrubs, hedges, rose bushes and little fruit trees.

Safety is of biggest importance when working on trees and shrubs. If you use a chainsaw, you ought to be conscious of all safety issues, always wear the suitable safety costume and never operate a chainsaw without a license.

Pruning Tools

Secateurs: Bypass types are best since they do not crush wood as much as the anvil types. Buy a robust pair that is comfortable for your hands. Felco are the best, but likewise one of the most expensive. Even so, most professional gardeners will not consider using anything but Felco.

Look Felco up on the internet to see their full range. Buying over the internet may work out much cheaper, or buy from a show to get show prices.

Lopper: Again, buy the bypass types. These are long-handled secateurs that are exceedingly utile for cutting subdivisions from 1 to when it comes to 5 cm in diameter. They save a great amount of time over saws and are also utile for getting into tight places. Many brands are available, including Felco. Make sure you buy a pair with rubber stops amongst the handles, to lessen work stress. (Incl. in begin up package)

Saw: Pruning saws are very suitable tools as long as you buy the rectify types and keep them clean & sharp. Buy any of the curved-blade saws, but refrain from the bow saw types (extremely difficult to use in tight spots). Pruning saws cut on the pull stroke, and are practical for cutting wood up to in regards to 10cm in diameter. There are galore good brands on the market, and a heap of of the folding saws are splendid for all-round use. (Incl. in commence up package)

If your clients want hedges cut, invest in a good 2′ stroke hedge cutter. Buy the best you may and keep them well maintained and they will last for a lot of years.

Pruning Principles

A healthful plant will wound over best without any further and added treatments of a pruning heal paint. These, even even though galore may be anti-bacterial, have gone out of fashion and the thinking now is to let nature heal the plant. Some schools of thought say they may seal sickness in. Often when you prune, the remotion of growth from the top of the plant will stimulate growth either from the base or from buds lower down on the branches. This is all to do with apical dominance which you will learn when it comes to on your Hadlow training course. In most cases this is advantageous, as it gives the full shape householders wish.

With a good deal of plants like fruit trees this may be a problem, since unsuitable watershoots grow from the base of the pruning cuts, making the plant even more difficult to manage. Whenever you prune, consider the growth that the pruning will stimulate and prune for next year?s growth – not just for today.

The main pruning rule is to prune after flowering, as the plant will be competent to put on new growth to flower on next year. BUT DO NOT USE THIS RULE WITHOUT CHECKING THE PLANT.

You will have to be very careful to check what plant it is you are pruning as a heap of plants flower on the former years growth and a great deal of on the same year or even on two year old wood.

There is no loss of face in keeping a pruning book in the van and checking before you prune, only fools would not do this. One of the best gardeners I know always carries the RHS pruning guide in his van.

Some plants require pruning more than once a year like roses and wisteria.

Remember that if you do not check when and how the plant may and will have to be pruned you may cause the plant to die by bleeding to death or permitting disease to taint the plant. For instance, you must never prune any plant in the Prunus genus in the autumn or winter, only in the summer when in full sap flow. Pruning them in the winter will leave them open to a sickness called silver leaf and bacterial canker.

Why prune and types of pruning

As stated above, pruning oftentimes stimulates new growth in plants to give more flowers and fruits and to give hope or courage to plants to bush out. Also, pruning is very essential if dead or diseased wood is present so it may be removed.

Pruning may likewise be applied to reduce plant size when space is limited, and lighten a dense canopy of growth.

Plants like roses and other flowering plants only flower to develop seed so they may reproduce. When they have flowered they will stop as seed has been produced, so by removing the dead flowers before they commence to formulate seed they will need to develop more flowers. This dead-heading may prolong flower production for months longer than they would other than as supposed or expected do.

When you prune make sure your secateurs are sharp as a clean cut heals quicker than a ragged one. Also a blunt pair of secateurs may crush the stem and harm the plant.

Felco

Metal head with forged aluminum alloy handles. Precise adjustment of blade and anvil blade. High resistance and high performance cutting head. Shock absorbers.

ReviewThese classic Felco pruners set the usual by which all others are judged. The choice of landscape professionals, nursery workers, and savvy gardeners around the globe; this in particular well-made tool features a design that’s been unchanged for more than 50 years. The anvil blade has a deep sap groove to prevent sticking. A Swiss, precision-made cutting blade with soft wire cutter is replaceable for greatest or most complete or best possible return on investment. An easily-adjusted bolt and nut concede users to custommake blade alignment for more effective operation. A rubber cushion with shock absorbers pads blades where they come together to reduce affect and strain on wrists. Strong, light, forged-aluminum alloy handles have a red, plastic coating that’s molded for ease (and makes pruners requiring little effort to spot in the garden). A non-corroding spring mechanism is covered with a metal sheath to protect from moisture.

Ideal for trimming rose bushes and woody perennials, the Felco Original’s smooth, soft action, ergonomic comfort, and particular durability put it in a class of it is own. It’s covered by a one-year warranty. However, with proper care, these pruners will last a lifetime. –Mary Park

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Most helpful client reviews

97 of 98 humans found the following review helpful.
The gold frequent of pruners. Buy It!
By B. Marold
Ever since I got my original Felco pruner, I will not even consider buying any other brand. Not only do they work better than any other brand, they are simple to take isolated and clean and replace worn parts. They are even comparatively simple to sharpen, altho it takes a more or less dissimilar touch than your pocket knife or chef’s knife.

38 of 39 persons found the following review helpful.
Just Buy This Pruner
By Brian Dallek
Ok, I am an ex foreman arborist, now a stay at home dad. You will not find any better pruners. I had purchased numerous cheap $5 pruners from HD and the things in a literal sense fell apart with the basi use. When i was trimming trees I applied these same pruners for in regards to 3 years straight and they are AWESOME! If your reading this then you in all probability don’t need my counsel on buying Felcos, your just attempting to pic a model. The #f-2′s are the usual pruner that my old job, Davey Tree, gave to it is arborists. They work outstanding and fit the hand perfect. I would suggest this model unless you’ve tried others and recognise what you want. Good Luck and happy Pruning!

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