A Handy Pruner for Your Toolshed

by Allen Wyatt
(last updated September 14, 2018)

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When taking care of your garden or yard, it is important to have the right tools. For instance, it is hard to till your garden without some sort of tilling tools, it is hard to mow your lawn without some sort of lawn mower, and it is hard to take care of trees and large shrubs without a variety of pruning tools.

I've had a pair of manual hedge clippers for years, and I've just about worn out my small hand-held pruning shears with my rose bushes. But until recently I've never had anything except these two. For some jobs the clippers are too big and for other jobs the shears are too small.

That's why I was excited to work with the "mini bypass pruner" by Corona. This forged beauty has a smaller cutting maw, like my hand-held pruning shears, but longer handles that provide more torque when cutting larger stock. The guidelines for the pruner indicate that it can handle stock up to 3/4 of an inch in diameter, but I found that this is a rough guide that depends, in large part, on the type of stock you are trying to cut. (There is a huge difference between cutting a rose bush and cutting hardwood branches. For the 3/4-inch hardwood I brought out the saw; it was just easier—and safer.)

Corona describes the BP3225 not only as a "mini bypass pruner" but as a "two-handed pruner." Either is an apt description of the tool. You can find more information on the pruner at their website: http://www.coronaclipper.com

The handles aren't as long as those on my manual hedge clippers, but at just about 12 inches (not counting the cutting surface) they are long enough to be powerful without being unwieldy. They are oval and fit nicely into my hands, with the rubberized padding providing a good deal of comfort. It is hard to tell if the handles are steel or high-strength aluminum, but either way they seem durable and up to the task of working throughout the yard.

The cutting edge of this pruner is technically designated as a "bypass blade." This means that the two cutting surfaces pass by each other, similar to the action seen in a pair of scissors. The edges are crafted of forged steel and can be resharpened, if needed. Their curved shape makes it easier to lop off the branches you need to work with. In my testing they provided a smooth cut that wasn't jagged and didn't crush the stock I was cutting.

At a normal retail price of just over $30, this pruner may seem a bit expensive. It isn't; the quality I found in using the tool evidenced that the price was well worth it. (You should be able to easily find the tool for as low as $25.) Corona's lifetime guarantee is also a plus; it means you won't have to worry about your investment being lost should there be a problem with the tool.

The Corona pruner was a joy to work with, as it was able to do everything I expected. This size of pruner has just become a must for my arsenal of gardening and yard work tools.

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Author Bio

Allen Wyatt

With more than 50 non-fiction books and numerous magazine articles to his credit, Allen Wyatt is an internationally recognized author. He is president of Sharon Parq Associates, a computer and publishing services company. ...

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What is 2 + 8?

2020-08-24 22:14:05

John Mann

Why not have a macro triggered by the print event which does the select active worksheet?


2020-08-24 09:58:59

Harlan Eshleman

Here is a page that gives a macro that will warn you if you are trying to make edits when multiple sheets are selected. I think that it would allow you to print, since that shouldn't invoke the worksheet change event.
https://www.extendoffice.com/documents/excel/4166-excel-prevent-multiple-sheet-selection.html


2020-08-22 06:59:01

Elliot Penna

"The only downside to this approach is remembering to print via the macro, so it will take a bit of training for users."

Couldn't you disable print on opening the workbook, and enable it within the printing macro, print, and then disable printing again before exiting macro? That would, in effect, force people to use the macro to print. After all, if you are putting your trust in training, why not train everyone to select a single sheet on opening?

Better yet, why not have a macro on opening, or on closing, select a single sheet?


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