What is a shrub trimmer: types, pros and cons, application

Beautiful green plantings and perfectly evenly trimmed shrubs - the result of painstaking and constant work. Give bushes an aesthetic shape helps shrub trimmer - a special device for trimming branches. There are several models of this garden equipment. You can choose a shrub trimmer in accordance with the needs of the site and the upcoming amount of work.

Types of shrub shears

Brush cutters come in the following types:

• manual tools;
• electric devices;
• gasoline devices;
• Professional equipment on a car base.

For an ordinary dacha, where there are not so many plantings, it is enough to get hold of a mechanical bush cutter. It cuts branches on the principle of conventional shears. Cordless shrub shears help to clean up private estates and large areas. The devices weigh less than 2 kg, so they are suitable for women and pensioners. Lovers of green design with the help of shrub shears create amazing sculptures from ordinary shrubs.

Advantages of shrub shears:

• no need to use an extension cord;
• Simply push the button to turn it on;
• Battery 14.4 V allows you to cut branches up to 14 mm thick.
• Battery charge lasts for 55 minutes of continuous operation;
• devices practically do not produce noise and are not harmful to the environment.

When using an electric hedge trimmer, it is important to remember that you can not keep it on all the time. Breaks are necessary, because the motor wears out rather quickly under prolonged load. Electric hedgetrimmers are used in the garden only in dry weather.

Gasoline hedgetrimmers are considered the most productive and powerful. Therefore, they are mainly used in utilities for the care of plantings in city parks and squares. Gasoline hedgetrimmer can be used when it is wet outside and the leaves are wet. At the same time, the gasoline-powered hedge trimmer has the following features:

• Has a significant weight (in the range of 5 kg);
• requires the preparation of the fuel mixture;
• quite a loud noise.

In addition to hand-held devices, there are mounted analogues, which are attached to minitractors and power tillers. They are involved in municipal and forestry farms, for clearing roadsides and ditches, as well as large areas for future development. Shrubber, branch chopper, leaf blower, and lawn mower are mandatory equipment for modern utilities and landscaping.

Characteristics of shrub shears

Mechanical brushcutters are equipped with fixed cutting elements with a smooth or wavy edge. Devices with a smooth edge are suitable for dense vegetation. Hedge trimmers with a wavy edge will handle sparse brushwood better. Large blades provide good work speed, but the weight of the tool will be significant, plus more effort will have to be applied to cut large branches.

Movable blades are diverse and make trimming much easier. The working part of the disc hedge trimmer is a cutting circle. He easily removes unnecessary, sick and dry branches, but it will be problematic to cut a hedge or give shape to a shrub. In this respect, trimmer shrub shears are optimal.