Importance Of Secateurs

Tending plants and trees can be very tedious. It takes a great deal of effort to take care of your garden or farm. You have to be very careful as you may damage the plants or trees. One tedious job is pruning. To do this, one must be equipped with a tool specialized in pruning plants and trees.

Secateurs are type of shears used to prune the thick branches of shrubs and trees. They are sometimes called pruning shears or hand shears and are mostly used for gardening. Commonly, secateurs are used in areas where continuous supervision of plants is needed such as in gardening and farming.

Even before, secateurs were being used by many people, mostly in Asia and Europe. However, at present almost everyone has their own secateurs regardless whether they be a professional or not.

Secateurs are made of handles, spring, and safety catch and are used with one hand. Their handles are short and in between them is a spring that enables the tool to open once again when in use. The safety catch holds the handles together when secateurs are not in used. Most secateurs are designed for right-handed persons. However, some are also designed to accommodate the left-handed.

Throughout time, secateurs are being improved to make them more comfortable to the consumers. For instance, some designs have rotating handles to reduce strain when being used repetitively while some have longer handles to extensively reach certain parts of a plant and easily cut them.

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