Loppers
Bypass loppers with double curved blades
Loppers are a type of scissors used for pruning twigs and small branches. They are the largest type of manual garden cutting tool. They are usually operated with two hands, and with handles around 65 cm long to give good leverage. Some have telescopic handles which can be extended to a length of two metres, in order to increase leverage and to reach high branches on a tree.
The word lopper can be used in the singular or the plural, with precisely the same meaning. The plural form, most common in speech but less so in print, seems to be on the model of a pair of scissors. The name of the tool is derived from the verb “to lop”, meaning to cut branches or twigs, which in turn derives from the noun of precisely the same form: a “lop” is a period or session of branch cutting. The noun and verb first appeared in Middle English, but have no known antecedents or cognates in other languages.
The main distinction among loppers is between bypass and anvil types. Bypass loppers operate like scissors, with two sharpened blades that bypass when closed. The jaws of bypass loppers may be straight, curved, or one curved with one straight. Anvil loppers have a single sharpened blade, with a straight edge, that closes against a flattened edge, usually made of a softer metal than the blade.
Anvil loppers have the disadvantage of tending to crush rather than cut, sometimes leaving an untidy wound, more vulnerable to infection. Their main advantages are of relative strength and of being less likely to jam with fibrous material. Very hard or resilient branches can sometimes deflect a bypass lopper so that material either binds between the blades or even levers them apart, which can be dangerous both to the tool and the operator.
Both types of lopper generally have a sprung adjusting screw at the fulcrum, which can be used to tighten the blades as they loosen in use. With bypass loppers, it is also useful for releasing material jamming the blades. Anvil loppers usually have a screw for adjusting or detaching the plate, so that it can be moved to compensate for wear or replaced entirely.
See also
Pruning shears (secateurs) – smaller garden cutting tools usually operated with one hand.
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