I've tried out the Fiskars PowerGear Anvil Lopper L31 – a lightweight lopper designed for pruning thick tree branches with minimal effort. Read on to find out how it performed ...

The anvil is a softer metal than the blade. Bypass pruners and loppers have a blade that sweeps past the lower jaw. There's an important difference between the two.

Anvil Pruners. An anvil blade arrangement has one sharpened blade that comes to meet the backstop or anvil at a 90-degree angle. Your kitchen chef knife pushing through a carrot until it hits the ...

Anvil-blade pruning shears are best equipped to handle branches, larger roots, and dead wood. Bypass pruning shears have two curved blades and are best for slicing twigs, thin roots, and vines.

To find the best pruning shears, I tested a wide range of bypass, anvil, and ratchet pruners to see if they made the cut. Following strict testing criteria, each pair of pruners had to make at ...