Customer Reviews
Clever and Rugged Design, Painless Hand Lopper 
2007-09-23
This the next best thing to having a full size lopper in the palm of your hand. It's very strong with a power gear mechanism that makes cutting painless. Because of the power gear action, the trigger handle rotates, softening the blow when the sheers get through the branch. With traditional sheers, the snapping action can be painful after an hour or two of heavy duty pruning.
These are heavy pruners, the grip is very comfortable. I've only had these for two years, but it's going strong. I wouldn't recommend it for professional u because of the exposed coil spring which is likely get clogged or damaged under heavy abuse, but it's great for the home owner.
This performs the job of countless other cutting implements (small sheers to a medium duty lopper). It's not a delicate cutter, but until recently, I was using it to deadhead my flowers with good results.
Fiskars pruner is a must have! 2007-09-03
I bought these because my other cutting instruments were tiring me out & I was always sharpening them. These are like cutting butter. They cut bigger branches than I would have believed. I like the angle very much. They are so comfortable to use. I also bought a Fiskars cutter fom Amazon that has tiny thin blades. I keep these 2 products in my tool wagon all the time. I have 5 acres with varied shrubbery, flowers, trees etc. These come in so handy.
A good idea..... 
2007-07-31
The handle that rotates with your grip is a great idea....it really did help make things more ergonomic. The problem is that the rotating handle is held in place in the pruner by a plastic peg sliding in a plastic slot. It became worn down within 2 months so that the rotating handle just dropped out of the pruner at will....usually when up on a ladder!
worked great for 3 years - then, it broke 
2007-06-29
I used these pruners for 3 years, and they worked well. This spring I was cutting up branches into smaller lengths, and they broke as I was using them. I need to see if the warranty will cover that.
A Wonderful Tool 2007-06-27
The powergear really works and cuts branches and stems with ease. I have tennis elbow and carpal tunnel syndrome and these allow me to garden pain free. They are a little expensive, but worth every penny!
Best invention since sliced bread. 2008-06-29
Great pruners - the rotating handle mechanism virtually eliminates sore hands and the dreaded "pinch" when a branch suddenly breaks and the fleshy part of your thumb or palm gets caught.
After some heavy pruning this season, these finally gave out after years of service. Absolutely no complaints considering the abuse they took.
I'm buying two pairs and dumping my others into the recycle bin for good. Once you've tried these, you won't accept the other junk that's out there, no matter how expensive and what brand name they may have.
Plastic Disintegrates 
2008-06-08
I loved this tool until it was two years old and the plastic, which is integral to the mechanism, completely disintegrated in the middle of a simple quarter inch cut of a live branch. I'm going all metal from now on.
best pruners I ever used 2008-05-13
I just did a real-life comparison test of Felco #13 and Fiskars PowerGear 7936. The Fiskars won hands down in power, ease of cut, and comfort. The test piece was a 5/8" thick peach tree trunk that had dried up and is very solid and hard. It's harder than even a birch dowel, but the Fiskars sliced through it with ease using just a one hand grip. With the Felco 13, I had to use two hands on the long handles to achieve the same size cut and even then, the cut using one hand with the Fiskars took noticeably less effort. Whenever the Felco made a heavy cut, the handles snapped together very hard, whereas the Fiskars handles didn't snap together as hard. Translation: rubber bumpers are a must on the Felco 13, but not on the Fiskars PowerGear.
The PowerGear pruners come in two sizes #7936(large to average sized hands) and #7937(small to average sized hands). But note that a men's small is equal to a woman's large. So the words "large", "average", "small" are kind of hard to interpret. The 7937 is much harder to find at brick-and-mortar retail stores. I have somewhat small hands for a guy, (but still slightly larger than a woman's LARGE hand size), but the 7936 works just fine for me, although I think the 7937 might fit my hand slightly better.
I own both the Fiskars PowerGear and the Fiskars PowerLever pruners. My first impression when I saw the claim by Fiskars of "3X the cutting power" with the PowerGear was it must be marketing fluff. Not so! I am a convert now. These pruners live up to the marketing hype because they do cut with much less effort than regular pruners. They even cut much easier than the Power-Lever models that until now I always thought were the best pruners. The PowerGear is far better, far more comfortable, and far more powerful.
Considering the handles are plastic, these PowerGear pruners are on the heavy side, weighing 9.7 oz. Also, these pruners do not have rubber bumpers, but this is not a big deal because the rotating handle takes much of the shock away. Compared to Felco's #7, Fiskars's PowerGear is far better. For one thing, the flange on the rotating handle of Felco's #7 is too small, making the index finger too prone to slide up the handle after just a few cuts. The problem doesn't exist with the Fiskars' rotating handle because it has a much more pronounced flange. There isn't a single Felco hand pruner that comes close to the power of these Fiskars PowerGear.
You can pay much more by shelling out big dough for a Felco, ARS, or Bahco, but you can't buy a better pair of pruners than these Fiskars PowerGear.
A manly tool 
2008-01-13
I purchased the Fiskars Power Gear Pruners as a Christmas present for my wife. Unfortunately, they don't fit. By that I mean that the pruners are too large for my wife's hand, and she does not have small hands. The upside is that she has given them to me and I find them to be powerful. It is still early to give a full evaluation, but so far, they are very good.
I wish I could say I like this item 2007-11-15
I wish I could say I like this item, so many folks do...and Fiskars makes GREAT stuff, most of the time. But, if you have Carpal Tunnel Syndrome, these pruners are a nightmare. They don't tell you that the handle ROLLS when you squeeze it closed. You have to grip it relatively tightly, a very painful experience for those of us with CTS. I assume this isn't a problem for those with arthritis (don't know why), but it would be SO NICE if they told folks about this rather odd feature ON THE DESCRIPTION....
