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hi welcome to home farm today i'm going
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to be looking at some pruners and
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loppers from falco
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and since we've moved into this property
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we have really had to roll up our
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sleeves and get stuck into some pretty
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serious major gardening
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that neither of us have ever tackled
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before so we are definitely on a journey
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and we've got an awful lot to learn so
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we are now starting to
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learn about different tools different
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equipment
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power tools and also starting to get
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exposed to new brands that we've never
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even heard of
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one of the first things that i did was i
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started to follow
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um some expert gardeners through social
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media so on instagram and especially on
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youtube i love watching gardening videos
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on youtube i have learnt
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so much and i found them so helpful and
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one of the people that i have followed
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the most
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is laura at garden answer one of the
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things that they
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introduced me to was a brand called
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falco
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and the one thing i have noticed is she
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is absolutely
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100 loyal to her falco for her pruners
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and i've been fascinated by this i've
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never heard of falco i've never seen the
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brand before
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so i was really intrigued by okay who
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are falco what do they do
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and why are these pruners so amazing but
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the one that laura
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had recommended on her channel was these
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ones which are the falco
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2s she just said that they are the best
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all-around pruners they just can tackle
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a multitude of things in the garden and
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she said if you're going to invest in a
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pair of pruners
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you know start with the fel coat twos
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because that will see you through for a
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huge variety of different jobs in the
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garden
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so i've managed to get a pair of these
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gel coat twos and as i said i've never
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used them before i haven't even
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opened this pack so i'm really really
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keen and excited to open the pack
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it feels quite weighty um already so um
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that's a good sign it definitely feels
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like it's going to be
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durable and also we've got here is a
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falco
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21160 the 60 stands for 60 centimeters
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that's the length of the handle
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and then the 211 is just the code for
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the actual product
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and they also have some weight to them
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but they're very comfortable
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already i can feel that this handle and
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it's going to be
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really comfortable and have a nice grip
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to it so
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very excited to try these out it's
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better i can actually see you now
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there is no plastic parts on here
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everything is metal
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and it feels really durable and then you
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just obviously
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you know kind of click that open i can
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hear how sharp they are
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so they sound fantastic um also to
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mention which i think would be quite
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easy to miss actually is that there is a
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little
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um divot here in the
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in the blade itself i'll just zoom in so
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you can see that
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just there that is actually a wire
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cutter
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and it's clever they've really thought
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about things and how to use it
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feels very comfortable and i have to say
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they definitely feel like a
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pretty serious pair of pruners and
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suckatures and it says on the pack
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world leading manufacturer of
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professional pruners and cable cutters
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since 1945.
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that pretty much sums up the falco 2 so
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we'll give them a go now
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one last thing to say is that this is
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for a one inch
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cut i'm excited to use them they feel
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really lovely
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they feel so comfortable in the hand
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they feel um it's really interesting
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because they feel really heavy on the
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top here
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but the weight distribution is really
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clever because in my hand and this
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portion
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where all my strain and efforts going
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feels so light i can't tell you it's
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really i've i don't think i've ever
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experienced
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a sucker to a pruner like it so
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you can just see the amount of
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research and development that's gone
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into
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making sure that they're durable
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and feel like they've got some weight
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and quality in them
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but are not going to put additional
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pressure and strain on the wrist
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so we move on to these falco loppers
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as i said these are the falco 21160s
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um 60 is the 60 centimeter of the handle
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i'm just going to try and take this
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out of here also made
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in switzerland i think all of their
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products are made in switzerland so it
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just goes without saying
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and as you can see it's very clearly
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printed on the
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handle so very nice they've even got a
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nice little
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diagram there that shows you all the
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spare parts
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that you can purchase for this lopper
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and the actual
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number so when you contact or when you
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go onto the website or you contact velco
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you can actually say i need this number
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for my spare part it says 40 more
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cutting force
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with the falco cutting technology and it
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says that week this can handle basically
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35 ml so three and a half centimeters or
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one and a half
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inches that should be good for um
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branches
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like these ones behind me when we go to
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trim some of our little trees
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i want to just shape them up these
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should be great for that
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okay so let's give these a go and see
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we're not going to be hard pruning or
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anything crazy like that today we're
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just going to be taking a couple of
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um branches ate a testament plate with
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them and b just to
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shape them we've got a low branch there
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that's uh i'm casting
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too much shade over my bulbs and
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crocosmir so we'll take that
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and then we'll just do a gentle light
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prune
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[Applause]
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so we'll put them to the test a few more
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times before we give you our final
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thoughts
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so it's been about a week since we
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started using our falco's and
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um gotta say i'm really impressed uh
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very very nice quality
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and feel really durable really sturdy
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definitely feel like they're gonna be
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lasting me many many years
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very comfortable here the molding here
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and this rubber silicone handle is
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really nice and comfortable
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nice grip on it without getting hot and
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sweaty
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and just have found them a real joy to
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use
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and really nice and super sharp i
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definitely think that the large
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size is perfectly acceptable with
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someone who has
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you know small to medium or normal sized
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hands for example
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if it helps at all in marigolds or
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you know washing up gloves i take a
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medium
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so a small is too tight for me so medium
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large is a little bit on the loose side
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but medium is really kind of my size so
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these are
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perfect i think if you have slightly
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larger hands it's still perfect
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and i think the small would be for
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really petite hands
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so that's maybe something to keep in
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mind with regards to sizing
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then we had the loppers which
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have been are a completely different
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ballpark altogether
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obviously they are loppers and therefore
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you know much harder
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bigger pruning tasks and again really
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comfortable
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this is a this is not a shiny kind of a
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slippy rubber this is more of a matte
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silicone handle
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and very comfortable i have to say um i
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find that the length is really good on
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this and the weight distribution like
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when you're holding it like this you
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don't feel like this
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side is top heavy so you're not cut you
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don't feel like that weight coming down
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um so i've actually found them really
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comfortable to use these
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rubber balls here are very clever and
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as shock absorbers so when you cut
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through something heavy
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you're not getting any feedback and the
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vibrations are not coming down
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into your wrist so i think that they are
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very very good very comfortable and
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again
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just the same quality um as these
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handheld pruners
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everything has been all the attachments
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and all these little
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nuts and bolts are all really strong
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durable metal
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nothing feels flimsy and they definitely
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feel like they're built to last
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the biggest uh most gut-wrenching task
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we had to do with the loppers was
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earlier today when we cut this uh lovely
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bush out unfortunately it's left this
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huge hole here
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i'm in quite a nice large dense amount
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of bush
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area um and unfortunately it just had so
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much disease on the leaves
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we had tried multiple different
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applications
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but nothing was working and in the end
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we were advised to just cut it back
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so that's what we've done so they did
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the job and
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they got all the debris and the dead
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branches out really quickly and easily
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the red is obviously coming from the
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fact they're
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made in switzerland and it's a swiss
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brand but that is actually a really big
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plus point for me because
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i can be using them i could be pruning
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something i get distracted phone rings
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you drop them on the floor you go out
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you come back and suddenly you can
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immediately see them they are really
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clearly
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visible and i really like that some of
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our other ones are black or
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dark green and you can drop them you can
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put them in something and
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they can just disappear really quickly
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very difficult to lose these when
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they're this visible and i really like
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that
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after using these two velcros it's clear
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to see this is a company who takes a
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great deal of pride
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in crafting tools for professional
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gardeners
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and it's certainly been an eye-opener i
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have so enjoyed using these
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and i was very pleased to see that on
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their website along with the spare parts
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that you can purchase
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there is also a maintenance kit and i'm
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definitely going to be looking at that
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because i want to keep these in the best
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possible condition for as long as
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possible
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previously we were suburban gardeners
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and we had a little garden with a small
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patch of lawn that we had to
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mow and a little flower bed for trimming
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and pruning
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so we were purchasing products that were
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low to mid price point and for us that
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was very appropriate
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for this kind of quantity of land and
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these kind of jobs that we have to do in
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this garden the demand on our tools is
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far greater
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so to be able to use a product like
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falco's where we know that if
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something breaks or if we need to
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purchase a small spare part we can
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really easily and to keep these tools
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going without having to chuck the whole
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thing away and for the whole thing to
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end up on a landfill
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makes this far more sustainable for us
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