3/4 in. Cut Capacity Titanium Coated Blade, PowerGear 2 Bypass Pruner

I have had these pruners for almost 4 years now and have been very happy with them. The handle is very ergonomic and fits in your hand well for continuous pruning without getting tired. The pressure required to squeeze these is very minimal thanks to the sharp blade and cutting mechanism. This product does meet my expectations and and I haven't found anything that I dislike about them. Please hit the thumbs up if you find this helpful.

Right out of the packaging these felt a little off. The action (opening and closing) was not smooth and the blade all ready had a two very, very small nicks. Perhaps just one of those days when quality control is lacking. The picture is after pruning four sago palms and a few other light duty pruning. Nothing over the rated 3/4". Very disappointing.

This specific model is my favorite model, however it's been discontinued, and the redesigned and "Improved" PowerGear2 model that replaced it is terrible. My original PowerGear pruner worked flawlessly for years, until I dropped it into a large garden shredder/wood chipper. So I tried the PowerGear2 and found it to be horse manure. The gears and guides get out of alignment and jam so it no longer works, that's the pruner on the left and bottom in the photos, note how the cutting jaws are partially open. Even before it jams, I found the the new latch location on the top of the pruner (left and bottom pruner in the pictures, note the orange lever) very inconvenient and the new gear location repeated caught and pinched the skin between my thumb and forefinger. I definitely recommend Fiskar products -- the vast majority are great -- and any version of the original PowerGear -- with the latch on the left side -- if you can find one, even used. I do NOT recommend any version of the PowerGear2 hand pruner with the latch on the top, unless someone is going to pay you to take it. I have a dozen different Fiskar pruners, loppers and their pole pruners and they all work great. Additionally Fiskars does stand behind their lifetime warranty without questions or excuses.

I actually purchased these to trim my pot bellied pig's toenails! They were perfect, very sharp and easy to use! The handle rotates, allowing even my small hand to cut toenails like butter! I've recommended them to all my friends who also have pigs.

This pruner is excellent. It's the 4th or 5th I've bought in the last 18 years or so. They last a couple of seasons until I start cutting into soil and too thick branches, but that's my fault. Still the best hand pruner out there.

It barely cut a 1/2 inch green tree branch. I had to use 2 cuts and twist with two hands. It provided ZERO gear mechanical advantage. It's not any better than my 25 year old Fiskar pruner. Very disappointed!

The extra power transmitted to the cutter makes them easier to use. On the down side, the gear in the handle became disengaged and it took a while to figure out what happened.

These pruners look nice, are sturdily constructed, are sharp, and have good leverage. BUT: the design is failing when it comes to safety. My thumb kept getting pinched such that I now have several large blood blister on the inside of my thumb (right hand) next to the nail. So I had to add an improvised guard, as you can see in my uploaded pictures, to keep my thumb out of the pinch point hereafter.

Not having a bottom blade makes them very difficult to shear. It tends to crush more then cut.

Don't let the compact size fool you. This is a tough and rugged little pruner which is ergonomically comfortable and super-efficient in its function. I've been using it a great deal in the last few weeks and it's still very sharp and quickly/easily cutting through some thick branches with minimal effort and just as well as it did on the first day I purchased it. Overall, it exceeded my expectations!