anvil secateurs?

 

Can't seem to find anything decent in the way of anvil type secateurs.
My no name pair have given up after 25 years, and everything I look at
now is under a tenner, and likely to perform accordingly IME. Felco seem
to have discontinued the only anvil type (model 30), so I'm a bit
stumped. Anyone got any suggestions?

 



you could try a look here:
http://www.garden4less.co.uk/proddetail.asp?prod=RSS-RSM-RSL

As I lose mine often in my large garden I tend to go cheap Wilko style,
which, if I do manage to keep them seem to be good for years.
I tend to get distracted by seeing other things that need doing more
urgently while pruning and put them down somewhere.

My neighbour was worse than me at putting his tools down and losing them.
He once called to me "if you see my rake, let me know.."
I did eventually, he'd propped it up against a tree in his orchard.

 

stuart noble wrote:


Out of curiosity, why do you favour the anvil type?

Chris
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Chris J Dixon  Nottingham UK
chris@cdixon.me.uk

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chris@cdixon.me.uk says...

I was going to ask that!!!
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Charlie Pridham, Gardening in Cornwall
www.roselandhouse.co.uk
Holders of national collections of Clematis viticella cultivars and
Lapageria rosea

 

On 09/09/2010 09:01, Charlie Pridham wrote:

I suppose because most of my pruning is of woody shrubs. My experience
of the bypass types (albeit the cheaper ones) is that, under any sort of
pressure, the cutting edge deflects slightly and traps the material
rather than slicing through it.
I suppose the fact that Felco don't seem to do an anvil type suggests
maybe I ought to re-think.