If you ask an amateur gardener or a gardener professional: "What kind of tool is the most necessary to work in the garden?", Then, with a probability of 99%, you will tell you about the secret, with which the proper formation of plants will be produced. What kind of secateurs are, about the advantages and disadvantages of various models, how not to be mistaken with the choice and the most famous manufacturers of high-quality tools you will learn from this article.

Types of secateurs

The first secateurs appeared in France in the 19th century. They were like ordinary scissors and were used to trim the vine. For almost two centuries, which have passed since the appearance of the first secateurs, their appearance and design, as well as characteristics, have been significantly improved. Modern tools can not only trim the vine, but also branches of trees up to 60 mm thick, perform vaccination work, crop shrubs and spiny colors stems. There are both narrowly specialized models and universal.

Design

According to constructive features, all the secateurs are divided into plane and contact. The blades of the plane secateral move in the same plane meet and have one-sided sharpening. The working blade of the contact semitter is sharpened on both sides and presses the branch to the site, which is perpendicular to the slice plane.

The first gardeners were a plane type, and their design did not undergo a special change for the entire existence. The lower support blade on such a secateur is not sharpened, so that the branches do not take place during cutting, the blades are performed by a sickle form.

Shatter secator

The principle of the operation of the secateral with the ratchet mechanism allows us to lay an attached force for several movements (the gearbox transforms the return rotary movement into the intermittent), which provides the possibility of trimming branches with a diameter of up to 3 cm.

A variety of snoring secateurs for trees is a two-handed secator (suchkoreau). A constructive feature of such a tool is the presence of long handles and a complex of complex conversion mechanisms, so it can be trimmed with a diameter of up to 60 mm at different heights and at any angle.

If the trees are very high and branches that need to trim, it is impossible to get conventional secateurs, then a professional rod secateur is used. Due to the telescopic rod and the five-speed mechanism of the intermittent movement, such a "monster" allows you to cut the highest branches of almost any thickness.

Village secret

Modern secateurs for the third-generation vaccination (Professional Grafting Tool) are designed in such a way that omega-shaped knives with double-sided sharpening perform ideal sections on the cable and stock. If you select the same thickness with the same thickness, then after cut, applied to each other and wrapped with vaccination film, they guarantee excellent result and fruiting.

Rechargeable secateurs

The newest developments of designers are rechargeable secantors with a saw disk instead of scissors. The rotation of the disc knife with high speed provides a cut of branches up to 40 mm, and low weight and excellent ergonomics allows you to use such equipment not only to men, but also women without delivering inconvenience when working.

Professional and amateur secators

The main distinguishing feature of professional secateurs from amateur is the quality of the blades. Knives of multifunctional tools are performed from high-carbon tempered steel steel grades treated with special coatings so as not to be subject to corrosion process, or stainless steel. The highest quality and, accordingly, expensive tools have not stamped, and wrought knives, which eliminates the need for their regular sharpening.

Professional equipment is also characterized by high ergonomic characteristics and a significant resource of the work (the amount of cutting without deterioration of the quality of work).

What kind of secator choose?

Recognized European manufacturers of secateurs are German, Swiss and Finnish companies.

GARDENA.

Gardena's German secateurs of various modifications are suitable for both professional work and amateur gardeners. Excellent ergonomics provides the possibility of long-term operation with a tool without signs of fatigue, and the highest quality steel, from which cutting parts are manufactured, guarantees a long period of using the secateurs without additional sharpening and replacing knives. The distinguishing features of these seckers are:

• very sharp blades, which is ensured by precision sharpening;
• antifriction coating that protects the blades from sticking chips and woody juice, thereby protecting the cutting parts from corrosion;
• clamp for blades, fixing the workspace closed.

Raco

The blades of Raco secateurs produced in Germany are made of hardened carbon steel over patented technology. Aluminum handles make the tool easy and convenient to use. Such equipment is designed for branches with a diameter of up to 18 mm. Advantages of Raco Secators:

• the ease of the aluminum body of the products;
• comfortable two-component (rubber and plastic) handles;
• fixator preventing accidental compression / rally.

Felco.

Felco Secators (Switzerland) are recognized as the best on the basis of consumer tests. Different Swiss secateurs from the tools of other manufacturers the following features:

• they are made of high-carbon steel steel grades with special anti-corrosion coatings, which provides a long time limit;
• handles of all models are equipped with special pads that soften the blows and prevent the possibility of damage to the hand and wrist;
• the company produces pneumatic and electrical secateurs, both in portable design and complex.

Fiskars.

Finnish Fiskars sectors are made of stainless steel. According to consumer reviews, these tools are not reaching the level of leaders in ergonomics indicators - the hand quickly tires after long-term operation with such a tool. The ideality of the cutting of the branch spoil the sovereigns remaining on the crust.

ARS.

Premium class tools - Japanese ARS secateurs are characterized by the following indicators:

• equipped with chrome-plated high-carbon steel blades;
• light plastic handles;
• the company produces various models of secateurs - from amateur to professional with a telescopic barbell.

Oasis

Ukrainian amateur, professional and vaccination secateurs Oasis are presented in the average price category. Knives are made of metal. Tools are equipped with several sets of knives of various modifications.

If you decide to purchase a secateur, then you should not save. The price of a high-quality professional tool can reach up to 5,000 rubles, but it is worth it. You will not be tired by working with such a secateur, and it will not require sharpening and replacing knives for a long time. If the volume of work on the formation of trees and shrubs is small, then you can do and amateur tool, but still better if its knives are made of the highest quality, so that the branches are perfect and did not require further processing.