PRUNING SHEARS 



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The writer is still experimenting on both, of these sizes and may 

 develop some slight changes, but they are very satisfactory just 

 as they stand. The small saw, Figure 60, is intended primarily 

 for work in young trees, but it will do excellent work on any 

 ordinary fruit tree. It simply means a little more work to get 

 off a large limb with this saw than with those shown in Figures 

 61 and 62. 



Pruning Shears. Next to a saw, a good pair of hand shears 

 will be found most useful. In fact where the orchardist is 

 pruning fairly young trees, say up to six or seven years, and 

 where he has a large pair of shears, of the type shown in Figure 





FIG. 63. An excellent type of pruning shears. A large part of the pruning on many trees 

 may be done with a shear of this type. 



63, it is surprising how seldom it is necessary to resort to the 

 saw. The shears shown are imported, being made in France. 

 They are known technically as the " French wheel-spring 

 shears." It seems unfortunate to be obliged to recommend 

 an imported article; perhaps the writer has been unfortunate 

 in the American shears he has used, but he has tried many makes 

 and none of them have stood up under hard usage like this 

 French make. In buying such shears get good-sized ones for 

 heavy work. A ten-inch size of this pattern is none too large 

 when one is going to do a lot of heavy pruning. For example : 

 A foreman used one of these ten-inch shears for pruning about 



