What's up everyone? Welcome back. Happy July 4th if you are an American. I'll be celebrating later today

But before I do that I wanted to record this quick episode for everyone and this will be a short one just because I got to get out the door and

get some barbecuing going on but we're talking about loppers this is a gardening

tools podcast and we are talking about the best loppers in in each category. So we'll go over first how to choose

the best lopers. What are you actually looking for when you're choosing a loper?

Second, we're going to talk about some of the different brands you might want to consider, and then finally,

I'm just going to run through my best top recommendation for each type of lopper.

So first, how do we choose the best loppers?

Well, generally, you have two different major choices to make,

and the first is going to be, do you want a bypass lopper,

which have an upper cutting blade that slides past it bypasses the lower fixed

jaw and so that is one type and then the second type you can choose from is an

anvil loper which has an upper cutting blade and then the second type you can choose from is an envelope

which has an upper cutting blade but the lower jaw is notched

and so the upper blade will fall in between that

uh... which which has quite a good advantage in terms of leverage.

So if you're cutting harder materials,

you're going to have an easier time with an Anvil lopper.

However, a bypass lopper will make a cleaner cut. So, you know, if you're thinking about how an

an anvil lopper works, an anvil lopper will crush it and then the blade will use the force to slice through

whereas a bypass typically will make a cleaner cut.

Next we're going to talk about the type of material for the blades. So all

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