Surprisingly...
I was dubious about this tool as it looked like a bit of novelty item, but as I have a lot of clearing and pruning to do I eventually decided to take the plunge. It is a monster and I have no idea how I managed without it. It happily slices through surprisingly thick branches (up to 20mm is a breeze) and has largely replaced both my pruning shears and my loppers with triple the work rate and 90% less effort. It can get tiring working at head height with a 5ah battery but I've found that it uses so little juice that the 2ah keeps it going for a couple of hours and makes it much more wieldy. This is a great complement to the hedge trimmer and chainsaw for jungle taming duties so if you're invested in the DeWalt battery system I can thoroughly recommend it.


