Hedge trimmers

       January 1, 0000    1106

 

A hedge trimmer is an instrument or a mechanical device that runs on power and is used for the cutting or pruning of garden hedges. They are being categorized on the list of powered garden tools. Earlier times this cutting was done with the help of a knife or with pruning shears. These days with the advance of technology the hedge trimmers are being developed and thus the work that needed 5 to 6 hours of arduous labor can now be completed in just a mere period of half of an hour.

Types of hedge trimmers:

The power source in a hedge trimmer by which the trimmers work can be either gasoline or electricity. Generally those hedge trimmers, which use gasoline as a power source, are more powerful and at the same time are heavier and difficult to start. The electric hedge trimmers on the other hand are the portable types that are lighter and less powerful in comparison to the gas run trimmers. Most of the powered types hedge trimmers are generally designed with safety devices so that both the operators’ hands are on the handles of the trimmer.

How to use hedge trimmers:

The garden hedge trimmers need to be safe and easy to handle. They should be reasonably light and capable of dealing with the job that they are given to them. Usually for best results it is suggested to cut an arc sweeping form bottom to the top. The height of the hedge should only be reduced to a certain level at the top. This can be done suitably by over the top of the hedge. For those tougher branches a sawing action might be required for this purpose. A tackling of the blades for the thick branches may damage the blades of the hedge. For hedging those unreachable tops one can invert the hedge trimmers gripping the cross bar from the bottom parts in order to give it some extra heights and hence pole extensions are provided with most of the modern day trimmers. It should be remembered that A shaped hedges are always better. Besides encouraging wildlife other advantages of this shape is it allows light penetration for a denser hedge and is more stable in the wind.

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