A manual cutting tool designed to sever thick branches that standard one-handed secateurs cannot handle. The long handles provide significant mechanical advantage, allowing the user to cut stems up to two inches in diameter. They come in bypass designs for clean cuts on live wood and anvil designs for dead or brittle branches.
Heard on the job
Grab the loppers from the truck, these apple branches are too thick for my hand shears.
Also heard as
- lopping shears