At this point I think ToT is just seeing how far he can push the limits of making videos on deep dives on random esoteric subjects. And I'm here for it. Clearly, since I just watched 20 minutes on pruning shears.
This was the Tot video to show my wife... she handles the bio stuff (meaning plants and trees) in our household, I'm the machinist/technician/electrician.
At this rate I don't care if Tony develops a fascination for hand knotted rugs or wood fired stoves. I wanna see what he's up to and hear what he thinks about stuff.
I'm seriously surprised he's been as witty, silly, and informative. These videos must take a monumental amount of effort, that or he's just insanely "Dad Joke" funny. Like a gift.. like a Prophet of lovable cringe jokes
The number of TOT is doing a video about (insert here) and I'm like "gosh I could care less" then 25 minutes later I go "not the wrap up already?? I was really enjoying that!"
Old Tony is the champ of shop humor. I laughed pretty hard at the little toot he threw in there trying to get through that 1" by hand....so relatable 🤣
OMG! I didn't even hear that the first time so I went back to watch that part again. I laughed just at the thought of it and then laughed harder when I finally saw/heard it. Thanks for bringing that to my attention. ToT doesn't miss a beat!
I almost spit my coffee all over my screen when that happened. I felt his struggle and damn near sharted myself just watching the struggle. Nothing quite like using an under-sized/powered tool to get a job done (or hurt yourself trying)!
My test for what to de-sub is simple, did I constantly and intentionally pass on watching newer videos of said channel on my subscription feed? Then unsubscribe, on the other hand I have the: did I click immediately on a video regardless if I'm interested in the topic? And ToT falls easily in this category.
@@josuelservin I like to wait until seeing a channel's uploads in my feed annoys me before unsubbing. Sometimes I go months without wanting to watch this or that category of video, but when I get back into the mood it's nice to have plenty of backlog.
There’s only so much you can do with just your hands (not that we were getting bored), but you’ve opened a whole new world by introducing feet as well. What a neat concept.
I'm not a machinist but I enjoy the videos so much I probably watch them a couple of times each. I am a gardener and I just checked, I have 5 pruners not counting a couple that are hiding somewhere on the property. This really struck a cord in me. I can't wait to tell my wife. A Kebtek may be in my future.
I thought to myself, "those jeans seem tight to get over his boots" then the concept of ToT wearing skinny jeans with the emo hair over covering his one black eye-lined eye popped into my head. I laughed at that idea for much longer than I am willing to admit.
@@ThisOldTony If you aren't wearing skinny jeans and have a straight-edge X on your hand next video, I will know this was just a phase and you will have proven your parents right.
I love this video so much. It must be really nice to have TH-cam pay you for thousands of people watching a rant you try to give your wife and friends before they interrupt you 3 minutes in to change the subject. So relatable.
My family are fruit farmers and the electric Felcos are the gold standard. Analog Triggers and fast as hell. The speed a professional pruner can achieve with them is mind-boggling. Ergonomics is also key if you do it weeks on end in the winter.
I used to have felco too and i switched to Infaco and there will be no turning back. The pruning force is unrivaled on the Infaco. Give it a try, you will be surprised.
@@FFLFFS well, how would you do that without a battery? For one, you need a fuel/Air mixture, and this needs to be able to ignite. Might be possible with an electric push Spark like in lighters, but only in ideal conditions. Ever have a 2stroke not start on the first 20 pulls?
I originally met Fiskars as a cutting blade supplier, and was happy enough with them that I bought (and wore out) a pair of their entry-level loppers. My machine shop and I are in a trial separation so I can't just machine a replacement part for 'em, and with some reservations about plastic I bought some Fiskars gear loppers. I figured I'd take them home and see if they broke while cutting up a couple of tonnes of dry and fresh Eucalyptus branches. To my surprise and delight, try as I might I could not break these things, and I applied enough force at times to wreck the aluminium handles on the old pair. The gear loppers are entering their second year of service, and so far my impression is that these are going to last a long time even chopping up 40+ mm dried eucalypt wood.
You are a scream!!! Shared with my wife who is a Master Gardner. She shared it with ALL of her local (Waco, Texas) Master Gardeners. They shared it with hundreds more. Most are ladies, but not all. I understand they all howled around the point "you got it off your chest!" Thanks man!
My wife had a thing for sleek foreign sounding focus-group tested pruning shears. I bought her a Falco #8 (a decade ago now) and the smile on her face after the first time using it was worth every penny. Now that arthritis is setting in, it's either I take over the pruning or find something electric for her to use to put that smile back on her face. Thanks Old Tony.
Old Tony, you're the best. Really nothing more to say. You just hit all the right spots for this shop hound. The subject matter, the humor, the videography. Top notch. Always have been. Always will be.
Agreed, but you forgot knowledge (wisdom perhaps) who knows there are specific names for shear designs- much less their names. To be honest pruning shears aren’t my fav topic, but Tony makes it interesting.
I subscribed for machining content but you have a way of explaining and a sense of humor that I enjoy. If your hobbies have steered more towards gardening and you wanted to make more content covering it, I would watch it. Even if it was a second channel.
About the nr 2 Felco: I used to work at a rose grower's. We had Felco shears which also came with an aluminium lip at the top blade, which enables you to cut a rose and hold on to the stem at the same time. Maybe that's why the bottom lip is designed the way it is.
My wife was JUST as thrilled as yours to hear about the new M12 shears. She said something as she left about going to a divorce lawyer. I'm pretty sure that's where she's going to buy me a set of them.
Never in my life have I thought “I need some pruning shears” and here I am immersed deep in a 20 minute video on one, good to see you around tony, thanks for the video
yes...I live in an apartment....I don't even own dirt let alone a tree!. But now its there. for everyone to see in the stats. It just got a 100% video watch time engagement from me and i don't know why. I just keep thinking back about his wife. How lucky is she?
Thanks Old Tony, I've been coming to you for gardening advice since I was a REALLY young child. You've never let me down since that time Ireland ran out of food. Cheers!
Mr Tony, i am watching you quite a while. Struggling with deppression and you are the only person that makes me calm and smile. I just wanted to say thanks for that.
You are just too much fun man! My wife was sincerely wondering wtf I was laughing so much at. The placement of that fart killed me🤣 And then you add that last part, man you are killing me!
The fart fucking killed me. How does he do it? Its such basic humor, but like you said, the placement of it was fucking perfect. Im laughing again about it. lol
Regarding tool safety, I'd have designed it so the trigger is still a mechanical lever attached to the moving blade, with electric assistance only instead of 100% power drive. That way, the blade only moves as fast and as far as you pull it and it backs off immediately if you release the lever. I.e. your pain reflex might stop you from pruning a digit. It would also let you do something you probably shouldn't but I do all the time; grab cut branches with the the blades then have the option to either release or cut through. It's the quickest way to trim to a consistent length - handy for fitting cuttings efficiently into a wheelbarrow or green bin. Also means you can trim directly into the barrow rather than having to pick up the bits in a second pass.
@@toasty4000000 Most likely, yes. But more advanced features typically start out in higher end products and gradually creep down into the cheaper ones as economies of scale kick in and/or the competitors figure out how to do the same thing only cheaper.
Hey, TOT, after watching this video, I ordered the Kebtek Pro version. I gotta say it's everything you said. My wife and I are getting along in years, and with a large lawn with maturing shrubs, have more pruning than our wrists are comfortable doing. I thought this would be a good addition to our tools. It's that and more. We've both used the pruner and are very happy with it. Other than the very real risk of cutting off a finger with ease, it's made our pruning tasks a breeze. it handles well, isn't too heavy, is well designed (gitz oiler for the blades, nice blade adjustment lock), narrow enough blades to get into tight places in shrubs, reasonable price for what you get. Your viewers could do much worse for nearly effortless pruning. Thanks for pointing this out.
Glad to see the little Bahco in your lineup. I'm a vegetable farmer with a recreational tree pruning addiction and tool collecting habits that seem like they'd be familiar to you. The small Bahco (P126-19) is my all-time favourite for delicate work. I have a pair of Felcos, (yes a present from me) that I'm also plenty fond of but those little all-metal Bahco secateurs are totally unbeatable for the $, quality and ease of maintenance. Thanks for making the best videos on TH-cam.
I told him once that I'd watch him mow the lawn as long as he narrated it... Looks like he took it to heart. Can a deep dive into pest control be far behind? I can't wait! Love ya Tony!
I was literally talking to my wife about you yesterday. We hadn't seen a video from you in a while. We chalked it up to "This Old Tony has a life outside of YT" glad to see your vid. Love it sir and keep it up! Thank you!
He explained a few videos ago that is father in law passed and on top of that being a devastating loss for him and his family that was a source of babysitting to free up video making time for us.
@@charlesalberti563, This Old Tony’s kids have to be getting close to the age of taking care of themselves I would think. Time seems to fly by when it comes to kids growing up. Lol
As someone who doesn't own an edge trimmer and has used shears to clean up the edges of my lawn, I can appreciate the finesse a pair of shears can have.
I'll bet weak handed gangsters would appreciate them too. In fact I don't think I'd be to far off if they were the targeted demographic. Well, I better be quite now.
@@robertbanks8870 "Paulie, get the ball cutters from out of the truck" - Tony Soprano. Wait a minute... Tony Soprano, This Old Tony, electric ball cutters... is this why he never shows his face? And the voice is clearly voiced over by someone else... he's in witness protection!
Electric pruning shears are the next leap on technology after the rolling-hand pruning shears. As someone who has spent years pruning vineyards, each fellow worker would almost always have the same gear. When you're making thousands of cuts a day the little improvements make a huge difference. It took only two days after the first belt-pack pruner took a skip on a job before we all bought them😅
I worked in gardening for more than 20 years and always used the Felco ones they never disappointed me. Also tried the Japanese ones but maintenance is a bitch with them. I own 20 apple trees, and when I get to pruning them seriously are used to get serious aches in my hands. Last year, a friend of mine loaned me a stihl one with akkupack on the back and powercord and it was quite an amazing experience, but as you said the cable is not so convenient, but my hands were happy.
I am a landscaper, so you are so right about this topic, as always. I e been watching your channel for years and I always find you far funnier than you need to be, and I love it. keep up the work sir.
Hey Tony, little trick I learned being a plumber who enjoys a clean bush! Next time you’re out pruning put a pair of ratcheting pipe cutters in your back pocket for those bigger hard cuts. It’s a life saver!
The best thing about a bypass pruning shear is, they are the same design as a hose cutter. I have a pair I use just for cutting PEX pipe. A lot cheaper than an actual plastic pipe cutting shear. Any tool is the right tool if you hit it hard enough. Love the vids ToT. Keep up the awesome work.
The felco I got from the electricians I worked side by side with. Wonderful tool. Cuts branches, steel supports for roofs, piping, nails and noses. Best thing ever!
[Fx: Sound of cork coming out of a whisky bottle.] Noses eh? [Sound of shot glasses on table.] I guess you'd better pull up a chair and tell us about that time. [glug, glug, glug]
@@ianmason. Aaah excellent! *grabs a glas and drinks* *does it again* Well you see. Now, that was excellent whiskey friend. But, Well. I haven't actually cut a nose with it. But it would be my tool of choice if I ever had too! *hat salute*
I bought a pair of these last spring and OH WOW! The have saved me so much time, especially when cutting up branches to fit in my garbage can. Like your manual shears, they do seem to reproduce. Shortly after my neighbor saw mine, he ended up with a pair (nicer then mine, of course). I have be keeping mine in the garage at night. I don't want too many in the neighborhood. 😉
A note to people who still want to use hand pruners after seeing this: When making cuts that are at the limit of what your pruners can do, push the branch away from the cutting blade a bit (i.e. push on it, don't bend it) while cutting.
This trick also applys, if you get to the limit of the cordless pruners. Once they get stuck at the first try, just give the branch a bend and it may cut trough nearly everything that you can fit between the blades. Sinve I´ve got my 40mm version of these cheap cordless pruners, (a Suca SC8506) I never had to use my big loppers again.
Always a fan of the Mad Max Thunderdome disarming sequence. That cordless pruner there looks like it's been taking ergonomics cues from the Warhammer 40k universe.
Those klebtek power shears are amazing. I am shocked. I prune back some small trees and bushes in my front yard every year. I use manual sheers. Each season, I make at least a few questionable decisions to prune back some bigger branches. If they're maybe 25mm in diameter, I can sometimes get by with a bigger set of manual bypass shears that have long handles for extra leverage. I don't remember the brand. I probably bought them at the orange big box store. The extra leverage makes a big difference. When those aren't cutting it, I pull out a hand saw for those few cuts, and it's fine. However, in my back yard, I have a walkway going to a deck above my garage. My neighbors have a jungle in their back yard. I don't know what kind of trees they're growing back there, but each season, they completely overhang my walkway with new branches that make my walkway impassable. It's always a pain to prune back these branches, which can get pretty thick. Those klebteks would be amazing for this, although the other advantage of having manual sheers with long handles is that they give you a longer reach. So I can reach over my fence and cut the branches in my neighbors' yard rather than cutting them in my yard. That buys me a little time at the start of the next season before they grow back into my yard. I own many tools from Milwaukee's M18 and M12 tool lines. So I also have the batteries. I think Milwaukee tools are generally pretty durable and powerful. However, I gotta say that some of them can feel a bit klunky. I bought a few 18V Makita tools, and I think the ergonomics of Makita's tools are generally better. Their subcompact 18V drill is my go-to drill because it's incredibly light, surprisingly powerful, and it fits into tighter spaces than any Milwaukee drill that I've ever seen. I also own and prefer Makita's circular saws. Sometimes those cheap mystery-brand Chinese tools can be amazing. I own a tiny battery-powered no-brand made-in-China air blower. It's lightweight and tiny. Can I get the PSI that I get from my 40 year old extremely loud and heavy plug-in air compressor? No. However, the little battery-powered air blower is very useful for blowing out sawdust from the air filter in my shop vac. I think it was $20 on amazon. It charges via a USB cable. It works fine. In this case, it's very useful to have a tool that is cheap, lightweight plastic than something heavy-duty so I can hold up my shop vac over a garbage can with one hand and blow the dust out of the filter with the other hand.
Tony, this is fascinating. As someone who has spent endless hours figuring out the best way to cut materials using the shear method or the pinch method, manufacturing these devices also comes into play.
I'll be honest, this is the best work you've ever done on behalf of Happy Bear Consolidated Atomics and Heavy Tool Co. You had me wanting to buy one of those power pruners and I don't have anything to prune!
Thanks for the video Tony. However I do beg to differ about the use of (blade and) anvil secateurs. I used to work as a viticulturist and we used them exclusively. I use them for my citrus trees as well (despite having a VERY good pair of Bahco PG-10 bypass secateurs with glass fibre reinforced nylon handles). Also I'm told that, here in New Zealand the kiwifruit industry uses the same German Lowe anvil secs that I have exclusively. My understanding is that anvil secs do much less damage to plants that have soft or delicate bark and make a much cleaner cut but are only really good for thicknesses up to 3/8". Cheers.
@@simonargus7662 IN NZ we use anvil for young canes and bypass for chopping out any old wood that needs to go. Most of the pruning work is cutting canes back so the anvil type is used the most by itinerant pruning teams. Then the head viticultururalist might go through with bypass secs (and a saw) to do any heavier work that is needed.
LOL I went through this last year. I have many pruners (and loppers) made by falco, fiskars even inherited locally made cutters (back when Canada still made stuff). After moving to a semi rural plot pruning became a real chore. Enter the Dewalt pruner (I also have lots of yellow batteries), the power made me giddy and I can prune all day long till my shrubs and small trees are level with the lawn…oops.
I've used Corona bypass shears for decades now. Originally made in Corona, California for citrus grove workers, they're durable, easy to maintain, and used to be reasonably priced... not sure about now that they've been bought up by a conglomerate. Their most basic design is very similar to those Toshibo shears. A quick Google search finds them in the $25 to $45 range, depending on the model and seller.
I bought the Kebtek 40mm, 25v model. Yes, it goes right through 40mm with no problem. It also has a half opening mode when working on thinner branches so it cycles faster. It also has a cut counter on it so you know how many cuts you've made on a charge. After 200 cuts I still have a decent charge left on the first battery. I love these things. Yes, it will eat your thumb or anything else you get in the jaws in a second flat. Not for children or anyone accident prone.
Bosch makes pruning shears in their 12V lineup. Form factor very similar to your orange ones, $100 w/out battery I think. I do almost zero pruning and yet I had those in my cart at checkout before I regained consciousness and backed off :D
As someone who just spent $5 on a cheap set of "sheers" AKA "thicc scissors", I look forward to this deep dive into overcomplicatedness. From a stick, to a stick with attachments, to a gas leaf blower, to a battery electric leaf blower, to a rake. My favorite (hands down, near my hips) power tool: the trusty floor buffer. Flip a switch and electric pixies make the drill sergeants go away. 100% full manual control, baby.
The Bacho ERGO is the go. I've had a set for 10 years and have used them heavily as a Vineyard manager. The roll handle helps with fatigue as well as the large size so you can get both hands on big cuts. Lowe anvils in size 7 are what you need for lots of small cuts, say trimming canes or any detail work. What you have there are for weekend warriors.
At the start of this video, I was ridiculing the mere idea of battery powered pruning shears. But, then you showed that thing just slicing through those big, honkin' branches. And, I thought about the last time I pruned the tree in the front yard (with manual pruning shears). My hands were blistered, bleeding wrecks (and my gloves ruined - gasp!). I might actually look into buying one of these newfangled things.
I got the Blue Makita Compatible secateurs about two years ago. Works FANTASTIC. Here In Australia i've got all my fruit trees and firebreaks. The one I got (I think you can order compatible with what-ever battery system you have and they all look similar ) Blades are cheap to replace and it is super torquey. Doesn't look so chunky like this one in the vid. Got it for about $150 on the usual chinese sites.
If you think those Makita Compatible secateurs are good, you should try the Makita Compatible mini chain saws. You'd be absolutely stunned how well they work, and it's such a handy and easy-to-use form factor. Mine cost $13 delivered (probably a pricing error). The disadvantage of mine is there is no oiler, so you need to take the oil bottle with you and squirt the chain every so often. I've cut heaps of branches and only sharpened the blade once. Amazingly good.
I've been getting a lot of garbage tools from Milwaukee lately. 6 years ago, if it was Milwaukee I knew it would be bulletproof and well designed. The kast 20 Milwaukee purchases always lesves me with a who the heck decided to release this feeling...it seems like a rough draft tool not ready for market at a premium price I was fully committed to the platform with over 60 batteries. Now it's often a better deal to buy another brand, even including purchasing new batteries... Their ridiculously priced lawnmower and powerstation inverters for not great products was the tipping point, and now I'm invested in 4 other major brand platforms and loving it.
The shop I work at switched to red last year. All the drill chucks are already eff'd, the cordless grinder has become very loud and the batteries run out way too fast. Should have stayed with the blue ones...
@@reinermiteibidde1009 It's embarrassing honestly. I feel a little bad for all the people I convinced to choose Milwaukee all rhose years ago....because I've been hearing a lot of complaints lately about quality control. Especially brand new expensive batteries that stop charging after only a few cycles
Hey Tony, I'm a little late to the party, I used to work in agrculture. We used to have the Pellenc you showed briefly. Yes they start at 1k, yes they have a cable, but you can run them for multiple days, prune hundrets of trees in a day and they keep on cutting. The big advantage of the Pellenc with the back or side mounted battery is that you remove the weight from your wrist. Additionally the Pellenc shears have a rubberized metal body and obviously offer rathily avaiable replacement parts. I can only recommend them, how you get them past your wife? no clue, but we have the 2 of them since 10 years.
@@qcnck2776 It works perfectly fine. I use one all the time and it will go through metal way faster than you would expect with a 2" flap disk. They are measuring power when under load, but you shouldn't be loading a die grinder with much force. The whole test methodology is flawed by the concept of "More power, more better" since it is more nuanced. You let the speed of a die grinder do the work for you. Powers main objective is to make sure it doesn't stall at a moderate pressure to keep contact with the material. The only time mine ever stalls is towards the end of a battery.
@@qcnck2776 If you have shop air, I'd recommend staying with the pneumatic tool. The electric die grinder hasn't equaled or surpassed the air tool. I'll wait until the electric beats the air for one of these.
ToT you are handsdown one of my favorites and I set everything aside that I planned on watching when you release a new peice of art. Please keep em coming! I comment to help statistics
I bought a pair of Kebtek cordless pruner because I watched this video. I didn't have a chance to use them until this week and I LOVE THESE PRUNERS!!!! They are everything that this Old Tony raved about. THANKS This Old Tony!!!
I don't know if this is machining video, tool review or just standup... sitdown rather... Anyway I'm all here for it 😁 Hilarious video ToT, thank you! 🤣
@@markfryer9880, Doesn’t really matter, I just wish he’d post more often I don’t care what he’s building. AvE even did a video about scraping tile off his bathroom floor and it was good. Lol.
I bought the huge version of those (>$200). They're effing amazing. Saw the recommendation on the survival podcast. Agree about the scary digit removal propensity. Great video as always!
Tony, thx for getting me involved into machining, i got myself a Logan 820 10" last week, and it's been amazing.(besides the worn out chuck that drives me crazy) Making scrap material has never been easier
The industry leader in the electric pruning shears market is electrocoup. For regular pruning shears the most used shear (for professionals) is the felco with rotating handle.
Pick whatever brand hand pruners you want, as long as the brand starts with an "F" and rhymes with schmiskars or schmelco... I'm a $10k+ invested red-blood, too (auto tech). I look forward to Mil letting me down for many years to come with the wank-factor superceding decency and functionality. P.S. $5 says the TOT shop will have a Kebtek banner in the background from here on out.
Milwaukee is big on hype but comes up short on real world performance. I like how other companies do a better job of giving repeatable power specs. The Milwaukee batteries always have the most BS promises of "50% more power and 70% longer runtime" only to find out it is exactly the same as the old battery.
From one Tony to another, I've , missed you!! And since seeing this have bought my wife the 30mm version (she gardens, I make stuff and grow veg) which arrived today and she loves it :) Thanks ToT
For any other pruner fans out there, if you get carpal tunnel or Any repetitive strain type aches and pains get a set of bahco ergo secateurs. Plus I find the steel quality of bahco better generally as well. Changed my life I tells ya. Never touched my felcos again. Also, the Japanese pruners tend to be very specialised, often for roses where the thin blades cause less damage and cut cleaner. Seeing tone use them on walnut made me wince.
I don't prune plants. Ever. Still, this video was so entertaining that I watched it all the way through, without fast-forwarding anywhere, and I am glad that I did.This Old Tony, your videos truly are something else!
At 16:52 I almost spit out my coffee! That abomination looks like a Sawz-All had a drunk weekend with a pair of Swiss knife folding scissors! 🤣 Every time Tony drops a new video I know I'm going to get at least one or two good chuckles, and this one was a knee-slapper! I am sorry about your romantic picnic with your pruning shears getting intruded upon, though. Women just don't seem to understand what's really important to us guys on special occasions. I had a super **hot** date with my gas forge on Valentine's Day. I'll tell you all about it just as soon as my girlfriend gets back from her friend's house.😋
ToT, you’re a lucky man to have a wife that’s “speechless” over new tools. My wife practices her sarcasm when commenting on new tools…and she’s very, very good😂
My wife takes the revenge route nowadays. I kinda wish she'd revert back to her sarcasm days, as they were a lot less expensive. Why's that? Because now she buys a new set of shoes "of equal or greater value" to the latest tool I've bought. Count yourself lucky, my good man. : )
@@stuartarnold9444 We're both in our fifties, so the days of her getting out of speeding tickets and discounts on auto repair are way back in the rear view mirror.
I work at a vineyard during the winter pruning the vines so we're talking over a thousand cuts per day between a few mm and about 3/4 of an inch, 6 days a week for 2 months or so, to say it'd be a poor idea to test my handshake in the early spring would be an understatement. My surprising recommendation for bypass secateurs would be the humble Wilkinson Sword 1111363W, they're dirt cheap (£10-12), bombproof plastic construction, comfy in the hand, have standard adjustments and hold a reasonable edge. I sharpen them twice per day but this is mainly because of encounters with the trainer wires, some days they won't need a touch up at all. The springs can wear out occasionally but they're cheap and easy to replace, I've never snapped a blade despite some fairly ambitious cuts involving both hands and the occasional caveman hammer (a big rock). My preference is down to the fat handles which cut down on bruises and blisters and the top slide lock which is way better than those annoying ones by the hinge or even worse the ones that hang off the back, those things disengage/reengage as and when they feel like it. My boss keeps talking about getting us some automatic pruners but having had a look at the ones available it's generally a case that they're just not suitable for the job, they're either too flimsy and have a small battery which won't hold up to the work load or they're huge and bulky to the extent that they'd be more tiring than manual secateurs to use. My carpal tunnel and tendons pray that a solution can be found. Oh and always wear gloves, blisters and calluses are no fun, look after your money makers.
I'm in the same line of work, we have the Infacto Electrocoups. They make literally everything else by every single other manufacturer look like a Fisher Price toy. I spent 5 weeks pruning hectares of vines last year with them with absolutely zero fatigue. Pass a diamond hone over the blade every couple hours, oil them periodically and they will pay for themselves in a season. The sheer speed you can work at when you're just twitching your index finger on a trigger instead of having to line up and squeeze over and over is amazing. They'll also go through inch-plus dead wood and spurs without blinking so reworking vines is just as easy as pruning canes.
I've only done a little bit of pruning in my life, but even *I* was a little flabbergasted just how well and seemingly effortlessly those cheap electric pruners cut. Doubt I'll be buying any (I'm more of a "fast and loose with a fine saw" kinda guy, and I don't have any high-value trees), but I was still surprised.
I learnt a couple of things about the intricacies of pruners, which I hadn't really thought about before. I mean, you grab 'em and go, right? But Old Tony, Sir, thank you so so much for the laughs 🙏🙏🙏. Today I am thoroughly appreciating the smile you've put on my face. Thanks brother 👉👉👉. 😎
Whilst anvil bladed secateurs crush both the waste and plant side of a cut (which, for you non-gardener toolheads, is bad), they do have a very specific application they're ideal for. And when anyone works out what that is, we'll let you know.
The humor in your videos is on point. bravo sir, bravo. ( the fart sound when you were cutting the 1in branch with the manual shear caught me off guard in the perfect way)
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At this point I think ToT is just seeing how far he can push the limits of making videos on deep dives on random esoteric subjects. And I'm here for it. Clearly, since I just watched 20 minutes on pruning shears.
Yeah, but the next time you hit the tool store you're going to "hmmm" in the pruner aisle...
This was the Tot video to show my wife... she handles the bio stuff (meaning plants and trees) in our household, I'm the machinist/technician/electrician.
I was thinking if TOT made a Hollywood movie . What would it be like?
He's testing the waters
And probably laughed ending with a good smile on.
I love how they put a safety switch on literally every battery powered handtool, but this "FINGER REMOVER 5000" apparently doesn't need one.
I cringed a bit when his fingers danced over those open jaws.. felt like having your hands in front of a loaded gun. 😵💫
I love how the trigger is so close to the blade to easily catch a finger. No need to move the trigger, say, to the rear of the tool.
I'm guessing you would cut a finger off only 3 or 4 times
@@sharx892 right? I feel much safer with a gun than one of these tbh
Shirley you mean the 'Gruntmaster 9000'
As someone from Wisconsin, I apologize for our lackluster power shears.
I'm glad someone is finally taking responsibility for this
That's ok, we all know they're not made there anymore.
as someone Of Walt, shut up and give me money for yellow tool.
Serves you right for voting to #DefundPowerShears!
As a man from Florida we prune with chainsaws
At this rate I don't care if Tony develops a fascination for hand knotted rugs or wood fired stoves. I wanna see what he's up to and hear what he thinks about stuff.
Don't talk about stoves... It might get the algorithm wizards to shut him down! 😆
@@SigEpVet nah wood stoves are fine they just want to ban gas stoves lol
Same
I'm seriously surprised he's been as witty, silly, and informative. These videos must take a monumental amount of effort, that or he's just insanely "Dad Joke" funny. Like a gift.. like a Prophet of lovable cringe jokes
The number of TOT is doing a video about (insert here) and I'm like "gosh I could care less" then 25 minutes later I go "not the wrap up already?? I was really enjoying that!"
Old Tony is the champ of shop humor. I laughed pretty hard at the little toot he threw in there trying to get through that 1" by hand....so relatable 🤣
i felt that too 😆
OMG! I didn't even hear that the first time so I went back to watch that part again. I laughed just at the thought of it and then laughed harder when I finally saw/heard it. Thanks for bringing that to my attention. ToT doesn't miss a beat!
I almost spit my coffee all over my screen when that happened. I felt his struggle and damn near sharted myself just watching the struggle. Nothing quite like using an under-sized/powered tool to get a job done (or hurt yourself trying)!
12:50 for those who missed it
I don’t get it but I did like the one where he asked the wife if she thought his finger was worth a thousand dollars…
I regularly prune my YT subs list. Never, ever, have I thought “yeah, done with that” - this channel is solid teak-grade quality.
I never prune my subs list and YT does it for me. without notice. or want. randomly.
My test for what to de-sub is simple, did I constantly and intentionally pass on watching newer videos of said channel on my subscription feed? Then unsubscribe, on the other hand I have the: did I click immediately on a video regardless if I'm interested in the topic? And ToT falls easily in this category.
_Prune_
@@josuelservin I like to wait until seeing a channel's uploads in my feed annoys me before unsubbing. Sometimes I go months without wanting to watch this or that category of video, but when I get back into the mood it's nice to have plenty of backlog.
I never! Though I haven't seen Abom76 in a while. I'm wondering if TH-cam pruned my list.
Tony's a real one for actually making me google whether or not that bypass surgery thing was true. His deadpan delivery is just too good.
Heart surgeon here. We use these all the time. 😁
@@johnnicol8598 But do you take them home on the weekend?
You wouldn't believe the insane tools that were initially designed for surgery. (eg chainsaws)
@@johnnicol8598 Heart patient here. I can still feel it in my bones all the time too.
After seeing orthopedic surgeons using power saws and hammers on patients, I just figured "yes of course, bypass surgery".
You almost got me with the vacuum Milwaukee with scissors attached 😂
There’s only so much you can do with just your hands (not that we were getting bored), but you’ve opened a whole new world by introducing feet as well. What a neat concept.
+1
The possibilities multiply. What if he added another appendage!😳
I'm not a machinist but I enjoy the videos so much I probably watch them a couple of times each. I am a gardener and I just checked, I have 5 pruners not counting a couple that are hiding somewhere on the property. This really struck a cord in me. I can't wait to tell my wife. A Kebtek may be in my future.
I thought to myself, "those jeans seem tight to get over his boots" then the concept of ToT wearing skinny jeans with the emo hair over covering his one black eye-lined eye popped into my head. I laughed at that idea for much longer than I am willing to admit.
*flips hair back* thanks for watching BeBo!
@@ThisOldTony If you aren't wearing skinny jeans and have a straight-edge X on your hand next video, I will know this was just a phase and you will have proven your parents right.
I love this video so much. It must be really nice to have TH-cam pay you for thousands of people watching a rant you try to give your wife and friends before they interrupt you 3 minutes in to change the subject. So relatable.
My family are fruit farmers and the electric Felcos are the gold standard. Analog Triggers and fast as hell. The speed a professional pruner can achieve with them is mind-boggling. Ergonomics is also key if you do it weeks on end in the winter.
Having started my horticultural career on a vineyard, doing months of pruning with electric Felcos, I second this comment.
@@FFLFFS Why stop at mere finger removal, when you could easily do entire ~~limbs~~ appendages.
I used to have felco too and i switched to Infaco and there will be no turning back. The pruning force is unrivaled on the Infaco. Give it a try, you will be surprised.
3 infaco 3015 here too. Very good tool!
@@FFLFFS well, how would you do that without a battery?
For one, you need a fuel/Air mixture, and this needs to be able to ignite. Might be possible with an electric push Spark like in lighters, but only in ideal conditions.
Ever have a 2stroke not start on the first 20 pulls?
I originally met Fiskars as a cutting blade supplier, and was happy enough with them that I bought (and wore out) a pair of their entry-level loppers. My machine shop and I are in a trial separation so I can't just machine a replacement part for 'em, and with some reservations about plastic I bought some Fiskars gear loppers. I figured I'd take them home and see if they broke while cutting up a couple of tonnes of dry and fresh Eucalyptus branches.
To my surprise and delight, try as I might I could not break these things, and I applied enough force at times to wreck the aluminium handles on the old pair. The gear loppers are entering their second year of service, and so far my impression is that these are going to last a long time even chopping up 40+ mm dried eucalypt wood.
You are a scream!!! Shared with my wife who is a Master Gardner. She shared it with ALL of her local (Waco, Texas) Master Gardeners. They shared it with hundreds more. Most are ladies, but not all. I understand they all howled around the point "you got it off your chest!" Thanks man!
My wife had a thing for sleek foreign sounding focus-group tested pruning shears. I bought her a Falco #8 (a decade ago now) and the smile on her face after the first time using it was worth every penny. Now that arthritis is setting in, it's either I take over the pruning or find something electric for her to use to put that smile back on her face.
Thanks Old Tony.
Look at the Bosch Easy Prune!!
@@JH-tc3yu They're to quiet. I think she wants something with a bit more of a buzz.😛
Well step on the gas and get her a pair of the kebtek shears before the price goes up ;-)
@@CrestRising "Find something electric for her to use to put that smile back on her face."
@@CrestRising whoa whoa, this is TOT, not AvE
Old Tony, you're the best. Really nothing more to say. You just hit all the right spots for this shop hound. The subject matter, the humor, the videography. Top notch. Always have been. Always will be.
Agreed, but you forgot knowledge (wisdom perhaps) who knows there are specific names for shear designs- much less their names.
To be honest pruning shears aren’t my fav topic, but Tony makes it interesting.
Great comment! I've felt for a long time I'm gonna be tired of ToT ... seems it has not happened yet!!
Yep 100%
Unless he has a power pruning shear accident...
I didn’t think this day off could get better
It could if I had shears & a reason to have them.
I'm at work... and it got better! (And now you know how productive I am on Saturdays)
I subscribed for machining content but you have a way of explaining and a sense of humor that I enjoy. If your hobbies have steered more towards gardening and you wanted to make more content covering it, I would watch it. Even if it was a second channel.
About the nr 2 Felco: I used to work at a rose grower's. We had Felco shears which also came with an aluminium lip at the top blade, which enables you to cut a rose and hold on to the stem at the same time. Maybe that's why the bottom lip is designed the way it is.
My wife was JUST as thrilled as yours to hear about the new M12 shears.
She said something as she left about going to a divorce lawyer. I'm pretty sure that's where she's going to buy me a set of them.
Seeing how common this “joke” really is makes me not want to go through the whole marriage thing.
Never in my life have I thought “I need some pruning shears” and here I am immersed deep in a 20 minute video on one, good to see you around tony, thanks for the video
I don't even own a garden, but I've just ordered the 30mm Kebtek
yes...I live in an apartment....I don't even own dirt let alone a tree!. But now its there. for everyone to see in the stats. It just got a 100% video watch time engagement from me and i don't know why. I just keep thinking back about his wife. How lucky is she?
Agree 😂
"Is my finger worth $1000? I asked my wife and she said no" LMAO!
Thanks Old Tony, I've been coming to you for gardening advice since I was a REALLY young child. You've never let me down since that time Ireland ran out of food. Cheers!
Mr Tony, i am watching you quite a while. Struggling with deppression and you are the only person that makes me calm and smile. I just wanted to say thanks for that.
You are just too much fun man! My wife was sincerely wondering wtf I was laughing so much at. The placement of that fart killed me🤣 And then you add that last part, man you are killing me!
I had to stop the video and get a hankie to soak up the tears...OMG my stomach hurts from laughing...
“Is my finger worth that much? I asked my wife and she said no”
😂😂😂😂
The fart fucking killed me. How does he do it? Its such basic humor, but like you said, the placement of it was fucking perfect. Im laughing again about it. lol
It caught me so of guard😂😂😂😂😂😂
Regarding tool safety, I'd have designed it so the trigger is still a mechanical lever attached to the moving blade, with electric assistance only instead of 100% power drive. That way, the blade only moves as fast and as far as you pull it and it backs off immediately if you release the lever. I.e. your pain reflex might stop you from pruning a digit.
It would also let you do something you probably shouldn't but I do all the time; grab cut branches with the the blades then have the option to either release or cut through. It's the quickest way to trim to a consistent length - handy for fitting cuttings efficiently into a wheelbarrow or green bin. Also means you can trim directly into the barrow rather than having to pick up the bits in a second pass.
Was thinking the exact same thing safety-wise.
Nice to hear im not the only one grabbing branches with them!
But now your shears cost upwards of $50 more and everyone is buying mine with the ON/OFF trigger
@@toasty4000000 Most likely, yes. But more advanced features typically start out in higher end products and gradually creep down into the cheaper ones as economies of scale kick in and/or the competitors figure out how to do the same thing only cheaper.
@@toasty4000000 Or you offer both and corner the whole market
Tony sir, you are a treasure. Never stop what you are doing please. Most well adjusted person I've seen for sure.
Hey, TOT, after watching this video, I ordered the Kebtek Pro version. I gotta say it's everything you said. My wife and I are getting along in years, and with a large lawn with maturing shrubs, have more pruning than our wrists are comfortable doing. I thought this would be a good addition to our tools. It's that and more. We've both used the pruner and are very happy with it. Other than the very real risk of cutting off a finger with ease, it's made our pruning tasks a breeze. it handles well, isn't too heavy, is well designed (gitz oiler for the blades, nice blade adjustment lock), narrow enough blades to get into tight places in shrubs, reasonable price for what you get. Your viewers could do much worse for nearly effortless pruning. Thanks for pointing this out.
Glad to see the little Bahco in your lineup. I'm a vegetable farmer with a recreational tree pruning addiction and tool collecting habits that seem like they'd be familiar to you. The small Bahco (P126-19) is my all-time favourite for delicate work. I have a pair of Felcos, (yes a present from me) that I'm also plenty fond of but those little all-metal Bahco secateurs are totally unbeatable for the $, quality and ease of maintenance. Thanks for making the best videos on TH-cam.
I told him once that I'd watch him mow the lawn as long as he narrated it... Looks like he took it to heart. Can a deep dive into pest control be far behind? I can't wait! Love ya Tony!
And we just watched SuperfastMatt fabricate a ham sandwich in his garage...what a time this is to be alive!
I was literally talking to my wife about you yesterday. We hadn't seen a video from you in a while. We chalked it up to "This Old Tony has a life outside of YT" glad to see your vid. Love it sir and keep it up! Thank you!
He explained a few videos ago that is father in law passed and on top of that being a devastating loss for him and his family that was a source of babysitting to free up video making time for us.
TOT means This Old Trimmer
@@charlesalberti563, This Old Tony’s kids have to be getting close to the age of taking care of themselves I would think. Time seems to fly by when it comes to kids growing up. Lol
As someone who doesn't own an edge trimmer and has used shears to clean up the edges of my lawn, I can appreciate the finesse a pair of shears can have.
I'll bet weak handed gangsters would appreciate them too. In fact I don't think I'd be to far off if they were the targeted demographic. Well, I better be quite now.
what kind of lawn-care masochist are you?!
@@robertbanks8870 yes that will be quiet enough out of you, be quite. 😏
bro i don't even own a tree (live in apartment) and still watched it and appreciate those vids and tools :D
@@robertbanks8870 "Paulie, get the ball cutters from out of the truck" - Tony Soprano. Wait a minute... Tony Soprano, This Old Tony, electric ball cutters... is this why he never shows his face? And the voice is clearly voiced over by someone else... he's in witness protection!
Electric pruning shears are the next leap on technology after the rolling-hand pruning shears. As someone who has spent years pruning vineyards, each fellow worker would almost always have the same gear. When you're making thousands of cuts a day the little improvements make a huge difference. It took only two days after the first belt-pack pruner took a skip on a job before we all bought them😅
Your videos are funny in a way you don't often see outside the really old manufacturing job shops. Really helps me while I do chemo.
Two This Old Tony videos in less than a month? I must be in heaven!
I worked in gardening for more than 20 years and always used the Felco ones they never disappointed me. Also tried the Japanese ones but maintenance is a bitch with them. I own 20 apple trees, and when I get to pruning them seriously are used to get serious aches in my hands. Last year, a friend of mine loaned me a stihl one with akkupack on the back and powercord and it was quite an amazing experience, but as you said the cable is not so convenient, but my hands were happy.
I also use Felco and it never failed me. Plus they can be maintained pretty well as spares are available for parts that damage over time.
I am a landscaper, so you are so right about this topic, as always. I e been watching your channel for years and I always find you far funnier than you need to be, and I love it. keep up the work sir.
That’s the reason we all watch till the end!…..Oh and the fact it’s always interesting too.🇬🇧
Hey Tony, little trick I learned being a plumber who enjoys a clean bush! Next time you’re out pruning put a pair of ratcheting pipe cutters in your back pocket for those bigger hard cuts. It’s a life saver!
The best thing about a bypass pruning shear is, they are the same design as a hose cutter. I have a pair I use just for cutting PEX pipe. A lot cheaper than an actual plastic pipe cutting shear. Any tool is the right tool if you hit it hard enough. Love the vids ToT. Keep up the awesome work.
The felco I got from the electricians I worked side by side with.
Wonderful tool.
Cuts branches, steel supports for roofs, piping, nails and noses.
Best thing ever!
[Fx: Sound of cork coming out of a whisky bottle.] Noses eh? [Sound of shot glasses on table.] I guess you'd better pull up a chair and tell us about that time. [glug, glug, glug]
@@ianmason. Aaah excellent!
*grabs a glas and drinks*
*does it again*
Well you see.
Now, that was excellent whiskey friend.
But,
Well.
I haven't actually cut a nose with it.
But it would be my tool of choice if I ever had too!
*hat salute*
I bought a pair of these last spring and OH WOW! The have saved me so much time, especially when cutting up branches to fit in my garbage can. Like your manual shears, they do seem to reproduce. Shortly after my neighbor saw mine, he ended up with a pair (nicer then mine, of course). I have be keeping mine in the garage at night. I don't want too many in the neighborhood. 😉
A note to people who still want to use hand pruners after seeing this: When making cuts that are at the limit of what your pruners can do, push the branch away from the cutting blade a bit (i.e. push on it, don't bend it) while cutting.
If I can't cut it with my two foot long loppers I use an ax. If the ax seems outclassed I break out a chainsaw.
If the chainsaw won't do it I get the trackhoe
@@danhammond8406 now that's my idea of yard work.
This trick also applys, if you get to the limit of the cordless pruners. Once they get stuck at the first try, just give the branch a bend and it may cut trough nearly everything that you can fit between the blades. Sinve I´ve got my 40mm version of these cheap cordless pruners, (a Suca SC8506) I never had to use my big loppers again.
The little squeaker trying to cut the 1” had me absolutely rolling hahahahahaha
Always a fan of the Mad Max Thunderdome disarming sequence. That cordless pruner there looks like it's been taking ergonomics cues from the Warhammer 40k universe.
Those klebtek power shears are amazing. I am shocked. I prune back some small trees and bushes in my front yard every year. I use manual sheers. Each season, I make at least a few questionable decisions to prune back some bigger branches. If they're maybe 25mm in diameter, I can sometimes get by with a bigger set of manual bypass shears that have long handles for extra leverage. I don't remember the brand. I probably bought them at the orange big box store. The extra leverage makes a big difference. When those aren't cutting it, I pull out a hand saw for those few cuts, and it's fine.
However, in my back yard, I have a walkway going to a deck above my garage. My neighbors have a jungle in their back yard. I don't know what kind of trees they're growing back there, but each season, they completely overhang my walkway with new branches that make my walkway impassable. It's always a pain to prune back these branches, which can get pretty thick. Those klebteks would be amazing for this, although the other advantage of having manual sheers with long handles is that they give you a longer reach. So I can reach over my fence and cut the branches in my neighbors' yard rather than cutting them in my yard. That buys me a little time at the start of the next season before they grow back into my yard.
I own many tools from Milwaukee's M18 and M12 tool lines. So I also have the batteries. I think Milwaukee tools are generally pretty durable and powerful. However, I gotta say that some of them can feel a bit klunky. I bought a few 18V Makita tools, and I think the ergonomics of Makita's tools are generally better. Their subcompact 18V drill is my go-to drill because it's incredibly light, surprisingly powerful, and it fits into tighter spaces than any Milwaukee drill that I've ever seen. I also own and prefer Makita's circular saws.
Sometimes those cheap mystery-brand Chinese tools can be amazing. I own a tiny battery-powered no-brand made-in-China air blower. It's lightweight and tiny. Can I get the PSI that I get from my 40 year old extremely loud and heavy plug-in air compressor? No. However, the little battery-powered air blower is very useful for blowing out sawdust from the air filter in my shop vac. I think it was $20 on amazon. It charges via a USB cable. It works fine. In this case, it's very useful to have a tool that is cheap, lightweight plastic than something heavy-duty so I can hold up my shop vac over a garbage can with one hand and blow the dust out of the filter with the other hand.
12:50 that absolutely killed me :D Perfect comedic timing as per usual haha
absolutely the most bonkers, hilarious and top quality video you've made to date.
I've never done actual gardening other than cutting branches that were growing into a walkway but I watched every second of this video. Keep em comin.
Tony, this is fascinating. As someone who has spent endless hours figuring out the best way to cut materials using the shear method or the pinch method, manufacturing these devices also comes into play.
My favourite pruning channel has uploaded again!!!! *-*
I'll be honest, this is the best work you've ever done on behalf of Happy Bear Consolidated Atomics and Heavy Tool Co. You had me wanting to buy one of those power pruners and I don't have anything to prune!
There is always something to prune...
I love the way he's keeping his hand near the blade of the cordless, I keep expecting him to cut a finger off before the end.
Thanks for the video Tony.
However I do beg to differ about the use of (blade and) anvil secateurs. I used to work as a viticulturist and we used them exclusively. I use them for my citrus trees as well (despite having a VERY good pair of Bahco PG-10 bypass secateurs with glass fibre reinforced nylon handles). Also I'm told that, here in New Zealand the kiwifruit industry uses the same German Lowe anvil secs that I have exclusively.
My understanding is that anvil secs do much less damage to plants that have soft or delicate bark and make a much cleaner cut but are only really good for thicknesses up to 3/8". Cheers.
I suppose it's also a preference thing, here in Germany I've mostly seen bypass secateurs in viticulture, like 95% of people use Felco.
@@simonargus7662 IN NZ we use anvil for young canes and bypass for chopping out any old wood that needs to go. Most of the pruning work is cutting canes back so the anvil type is used the most by itinerant pruning teams. Then the head viticultururalist might go through with bypass secs (and a saw) to do any heavier work that is needed.
When I saw the Milwaukee vacuum I fell of my chair with my broke leg and was still laughing 😂
LOL I went through this last year. I have many pruners (and loppers) made by falco, fiskars even inherited locally made cutters (back when Canada still made stuff). After moving to a semi rural plot pruning became a real chore.
Enter the Dewalt pruner (I also have lots of yellow batteries), the power made me giddy and I can prune all day long till my shrubs and small trees are level with the lawn…oops.
I've used Corona bypass shears for decades now. Originally made in Corona, California for citrus grove workers, they're durable, easy to maintain, and used to be reasonably priced... not sure about now that they've been bought up by a conglomerate.
Their most basic design is very similar to those Toshibo shears.
A quick Google search finds them in the $25 to $45 range, depending on the model and seller.
I bought the Kebtek 40mm, 25v model. Yes, it goes right through 40mm with no problem. It also has a half opening mode when working on thinner branches so it cycles faster. It also has a cut counter on it so you know how many cuts you've made on a charge. After 200 cuts I still have a decent charge left on the first battery. I love these things.
Yes, it will eat your thumb or anything else you get in the jaws in a second flat. Not for children or anyone accident prone.
Now Kebtek have new 40mm electric pruner model: KT940. Would you like to have a test ?😊
Finding that there's a new ToT video is like surprise Christmas. And it means I can take a break from re-watching all of the old videos.
Thanks!!!!
Bosch makes pruning shears in their 12V lineup. Form factor very similar to your orange ones, $100 w/out battery I think. I do almost zero pruning and yet I had those in my cart at checkout before I regained consciousness and backed off :D
First time I have ever been online at the exact moment a TOT video has been uploaded!
Oh boy the valentine's day picnic part was hilarious!!! 🤣🤣🤣
As someone who just spent $5 on a cheap set of "sheers" AKA "thicc scissors", I look forward to this deep dive into overcomplicatedness. From a stick, to a stick with attachments, to a gas leaf blower, to a battery electric leaf blower, to a rake.
My favorite (hands down, near my hips) power tool: the trusty floor buffer. Flip a switch and electric pixies make the drill sergeants go away. 100% full manual control, baby.
The Bacho ERGO is the go. I've had a set for 10 years and have used them heavily as a Vineyard manager. The roll handle helps with fatigue as well as the large size so you can get both hands on big cuts. Lowe anvils in size 7 are what you need for lots of small cuts, say trimming canes or any detail work. What you have there are for weekend warriors.
At the start of this video, I was ridiculing the mere idea of battery powered pruning shears. But, then you showed that thing just slicing through those big, honkin' branches. And, I thought about the last time I pruned the tree in the front yard (with manual pruning shears). My hands were blistered, bleeding wrecks (and my gloves ruined - gasp!). I might actually look into buying one of these newfangled things.
Have you tested electric pruning shear? Thanks for your feedback~!! 🤭Welcome to share with us about your using experience.
I got the Blue Makita Compatible secateurs about two years ago. Works FANTASTIC. Here In Australia i've got all my fruit trees and firebreaks. The one I got (I think you can order compatible with what-ever battery system you have and they all look similar ) Blades are cheap to replace and it is super torquey. Doesn't look so chunky like this one in the vid. Got it for about $150 on the usual chinese sites.
If you think those Makita Compatible secateurs are good, you should try the Makita Compatible mini chain saws. You'd be absolutely stunned how well they work, and it's such a handy and easy-to-use form factor.
Mine cost $13 delivered (probably a pricing error). The disadvantage of mine is there is no oiler, so you need to take the oil bottle with you and squirt the chain every so often. I've cut heaps of branches and only sharpened the blade once. Amazingly good.
I've been getting a lot of garbage tools from Milwaukee lately.
6 years ago, if it was Milwaukee I knew it would be bulletproof and well designed.
The kast 20 Milwaukee purchases always lesves me with a who the heck decided to release this feeling...it seems like a rough draft tool not ready for market at a premium price
I was fully committed to the platform with over 60 batteries. Now it's often a better deal to buy another brand, even including purchasing new batteries...
Their ridiculously priced lawnmower and powerstation inverters for not great products was the tipping point, and now I'm invested in 4 other major brand platforms and loving it.
The shop I work at switched to red last year. All the drill chucks are already eff'd, the cordless grinder has become very loud and the batteries run out way too fast. Should have stayed with the blue ones...
@@reinermiteibidde1009 It's embarrassing honestly.
I feel a little bad for all the people I convinced to choose Milwaukee all rhose years ago....because I've been hearing a lot of complaints lately about quality control. Especially brand new expensive batteries that stop charging after only a few cycles
Hey Tony, I'm a little late to the party, I used to work in agrculture. We used to have the Pellenc you showed briefly. Yes they start at 1k, yes they have a cable, but you can run them for multiple days, prune hundrets of trees in a day and they keep on cutting. The big advantage of the Pellenc with the back or side mounted battery is that you remove the weight from your wrist. Additionally the Pellenc shears have a rubberized metal body and obviously offer rathily avaiable replacement parts. I can only recommend them, how you get them past your wife? no clue, but we have the 2 of them since 10 years.
Always a good laugh! Thank you!
2 TOT videos in a month ??? .... This is gonna be a good year 🤘
That's like...50 more videos!
Their 90° die grinder is my most used tool. As a machinist, it's so nice to not need air to cut, grind, or debur.
Do you find it powerful enough? I have been thinking about getting one, but the info on the Torque Test channel was somewhat lukewarm.
@@qcnck2776 it's got a pressure cut off if you use it too hard. Power won't be a problem
@@qcnck2776 with 2in rolocs I've never had it cut out. I've never really needed to apply that much pressure honestly.
@@qcnck2776 It works perfectly fine. I use one all the time and it will go through metal way faster than you would expect with a 2" flap disk. They are measuring power when under load, but you shouldn't be loading a die grinder with much force. The whole test methodology is flawed by the concept of "More power, more better" since it is more nuanced. You let the speed of a die grinder do the work for you. Powers main objective is to make sure it doesn't stall at a moderate pressure to keep contact with the material. The only time mine ever stalls is towards the end of a battery.
@@qcnck2776 If you have shop air, I'd recommend staying with the pneumatic tool.
The electric die grinder hasn't equaled or surpassed the air tool.
I'll wait until the electric beats the air for one of these.
ToT you are handsdown one of my favorites and I set everything aside that I planned on watching when you release a new peice of art. Please keep em coming!
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The attempt to cut through the inch thick branch with manual hand shears (chefs kiss) The grunting, the fart, the giving up.... so good. Been there.
I bought a pair of Kebtek cordless pruner because I watched this video. I didn't have a chance to use them until this week and I LOVE THESE PRUNERS!!!! They are everything that this Old Tony raved about. THANKS This Old Tony!!!
16:55 I choked on my beer, laughing, that tool made my day.
I don't know if this is machining video, tool review or just standup... sitdown rather... Anyway I'm all here for it 😁 Hilarious video ToT, thank you! 🤣
It definitely was one of ToT most unusual videos. Not a single set of verniers to be seen? Is the really a genuine ToT video?
@@markfryer9880, Doesn’t really matter, I just wish he’d post more often I don’t care what he’s building. AvE even did a video about scraping tile off his bathroom floor and it was good. Lol.
@@Hoaxer51 I agree, every single ToT video is gold, but the wait for the new upload is sooo long
I bought the huge version of those (>$200). They're effing amazing. Saw the recommendation on the survival podcast. Agree about the scary digit removal propensity. Great video as always!
Tony, thx for getting me involved into machining, i got myself a Logan 820 10" last week, and it's been amazing.(besides the worn out chuck that drives me crazy)
Making scrap material has never been easier
The industry leader in the electric pruning shears market is electrocoup. For regular pruning shears the most used shear (for professionals) is the felco with rotating handle.
8:05 sooo close to being able to legitimately say "baby rubber buggy bumpers"
There is always room for a fart joke.
By far my favourite Chanel of all times!
ToT is always a great source of inspiration.
Pick whatever brand hand pruners you want, as long as the brand starts with an "F" and rhymes with schmiskars or schmelco... I'm a $10k+ invested red-blood, too (auto tech). I look forward to Mil letting me down for many years to come with the wank-factor superceding decency and functionality.
P.S. $5 says the TOT shop will have a Kebtek banner in the background from here on out.
Milwaukee is big on hype but comes up short on real world performance.
I like how other companies do a better job of giving repeatable power specs.
The Milwaukee batteries always have the most BS promises of "50% more power and 70% longer runtime" only to find out it is exactly the same as the old battery.
From one Tony to another, I've , missed you!! And since seeing this have bought my wife the 30mm version (she gardens, I make stuff and grow veg) which arrived today and she loves it :) Thanks ToT
nice! prune with caution! that thing don't mess around.
For any other pruner fans out there, if you get carpal tunnel or Any repetitive strain type aches and pains get a set of bahco ergo secateurs. Plus I find the steel quality of bahco better generally as well. Changed my life I tells ya. Never touched my felcos again.
Also, the Japanese pruners tend to be very specialised, often for roses where the thin blades cause less damage and cut cleaner. Seeing tone use them on walnut made me wince.
I have no idea how you did such a clean cut to the replica branch carved from butter every time you switched to those electric cutters!
His CG game is amazing
It is a brown carrot.
I don't prune plants. Ever. Still, this video was so entertaining that I watched it all the way through, without fast-forwarding anywhere, and I am glad that I did.This Old Tony, your videos truly are something else!
Same!
At 16:52 I almost spit out my coffee! That abomination looks like a Sawz-All had a drunk weekend with a pair of Swiss knife folding scissors! 🤣 Every time Tony drops a new video I know I'm going to get at least one or two good chuckles, and this one was a knee-slapper! I am sorry about your romantic picnic with your pruning shears getting intruded upon, though. Women just don't seem to understand what's really important to us guys on special occasions. I had a super **hot** date with my gas forge on Valentine's Day. I'll tell you all about it just as soon as my girlfriend gets back from her friend's house.😋
Just bought one! Thanks. Wife's going to love it. Holding a funeral for her thumbs any day now
Jury Duty Joe: If you happen to see this, thanks so much for recommending this channel to us! It's great!
Just sitting here waiting for the day they release the MilwaukeeTalkie, a radio for construction workers who still buy stuff at the local DIY store 😛
Why would it matter where someone had bought it? I think you forgot part of the joke, because that doesn't make much sense, and isn't funny..
@@mikemulligan5731 Uh, i hit a sore spot there. Sorry bud 😀
ToT, you’re a lucky man to have a wife that’s “speechless” over new tools. My wife practices her sarcasm when commenting on new tools…and she’s very, very good😂
My wife takes the revenge route nowadays. I kinda wish she'd revert back to her sarcasm days, as they were a lot less expensive. Why's that? Because now she buys a new set of shoes "of equal or greater value" to the latest tool I've bought.
Count yourself lucky, my good man. : )
@@floorpizza8074 I bet she looks 100% better wearing her new shoes than you do holding your new tool though.
@@stuartarnold9444 Yes, but a picture of her in her new shoes is not very effective at removing lug nuts.
@@floorpizza8074 depends who you show it to I suppose
@@stuartarnold9444 We're both in our fifties, so the days of her getting out of speeding tickets and discounts on auto repair are way back in the rear view mirror.
It's pronounced 'Meelee-walk-ay' which is Algonquin for "The Good Land".
Dude, you're awsome... so matter-of-fact when it hits me in the face every time I'm still getting back up to get it one more time.
I work at a vineyard during the winter pruning the vines so we're talking over a thousand cuts per day between a few mm and about 3/4 of an inch, 6 days a week for 2 months or so, to say it'd be a poor idea to test my handshake in the early spring would be an understatement.
My surprising recommendation for bypass secateurs would be the humble Wilkinson Sword 1111363W, they're dirt cheap (£10-12), bombproof plastic construction, comfy in the hand, have standard adjustments and hold a reasonable edge. I sharpen them twice per day but this is mainly because of encounters with the trainer wires, some days they won't need a touch up at all. The springs can wear out occasionally but they're cheap and easy to replace, I've never snapped a blade despite some fairly ambitious cuts involving both hands and the occasional caveman hammer (a big rock). My preference is down to the fat handles which cut down on bruises and blisters and the top slide lock which is way better than those annoying ones by the hinge or even worse the ones that hang off the back, those things disengage/reengage as and when they feel like it.
My boss keeps talking about getting us some automatic pruners but having had a look at the ones available it's generally a case that they're just not suitable for the job, they're either too flimsy and have a small battery which won't hold up to the work load or they're huge and bulky to the extent that they'd be more tiring than manual secateurs to use. My carpal tunnel and tendons pray that a solution can be found.
Oh and always wear gloves, blisters and calluses are no fun, look after your money makers.
I'm in the same line of work, we have the Infacto Electrocoups. They make literally everything else by every single other manufacturer look like a Fisher Price toy. I spent 5 weeks pruning hectares of vines last year with them with absolutely zero fatigue. Pass a diamond hone over the blade every couple hours, oil them periodically and they will pay for themselves in a season. The sheer speed you can work at when you're just twitching your index finger on a trigger instead of having to line up and squeeze over and over is amazing. They'll also go through inch-plus dead wood and spurs without blinking so reworking vines is just as easy as pruning canes.
I've only done a little bit of pruning in my life, but even *I* was a little flabbergasted just how well and seemingly effortlessly those cheap electric pruners cut. Doubt I'll be buying any (I'm more of a "fast and loose with a fine saw" kinda guy, and I don't have any high-value trees), but I was still surprised.
I learnt a couple of things about the intricacies of pruners, which I hadn't really thought about before. I mean, you grab 'em and go, right? But Old Tony, Sir, thank you so so much for the laughs 🙏🙏🙏. Today I am thoroughly appreciating the smile you've put on my face. Thanks brother 👉👉👉. 😎
Whilst anvil bladed secateurs crush both the waste and plant side of a cut (which, for you non-gardener toolheads, is bad), they do have a very specific application they're ideal for.
And when anyone works out what that is, we'll let you know.
These are the kinda vids we love.
Real tool talk.
People who don't use tool every day can't understand how important these things are.
Thanks ToT
Absolutely LOVE the Cooler King/The Great Escape reference to start the video!
The humor in your videos is on point. bravo sir, bravo. ( the fart sound when you were cutting the 1in branch with the manual shear caught me off guard in the perfect way)