Fiskars 62-Inch Pruning Stik #9234

I read about this pruning device in one of my gardening magazines and decided it was worth a try. WOW! What a pruner!

Not only does it allow me to prune branches up to 1-1/4" in diameter that are out of my reach, the mechanism doesn't hurt my hands, either. What a smooth and effortless cut!

I would recommend this lifesaver to anyone who is seeking a better solution to what seems like a full-time garden job.


Here's one thats not gonna break!   July 15, 2003
Courtland J. Carpenter (Fort Wayne, Indiana United States)
23 out of 24 found this review helpful

I had a cable driven long pruner, and besides the fact that it ... near broke my hand to clip a large branch with it, the thing was fragile. I used to live on nearly and acre of property with a row of pines along the back. They would get all brown near the bottom so I would try and prune them up to about the point where they could get enough sun to stay green. To do that you need a pruner with a little reach to it?

I saw this model on TV and hunted it down, finding it first on Amazon. I could barely believe the price quoted on the TV show, (it wasn't a commercial, it was a how-to show) they said the stick only cost about [$$$]. Its not quite that cheap, but the quality here is excellent. It uses a chain, not unlike a bike chain, to drive the extended cutter. It uses a slider, leverage system to pull the chain to make the cuts. The cutting blades themselves are very sharp and can be adjusted to any angle. This becomes an important concern when you have about a dozen pine trees to trip.

The stick will also do fine when you don't need the extended length. Remember those hedge trimmers that looked like a huge pair of scissors? I used to hurt my wrists every year, trying to get enough momentum to trim the bushes in front of the house I was renting. If you tried to cut too, slow it would get stuck, too fast, and the handles would stop abruptly hurting my wrists! This cutter, although smaller than a hedge trimmer, cut so quick and easily that it made trimming the bushes a pleasure. I could even get lazy, and sit down in a chair, and do them from a distance. Try that with your electric model! The bushes never shaped up so well before.

The blades will cut close to a one-inch branch, and I haven't had to sharpen it yet. Just keep the chain free of dirt, and keep a little mower oil on it, or cycle spray and it continues to work like new. Sometimes they just make a tool that becomes the defacto standard for a while, and for my money this is it. Don't risk cutting your arm off with a chainsaw. If you've got a little pruning to do, get this Pruning Stik and start clipping away.


Should've gotten one sooner   March 31, 2001
14 out of 14 found this review helpful

I unfortunately have tendonitis in my elbows at the moment from doing too much pruning this spring with my regular 24-inch lopper (I'm only 42, for crying out loud). That tool will now see only limited use.

The Pruning Stick's action is smooth and it makes a very clean cut. The rotating head is great because instead of reaching out from a distance and fighting gravity for the correct angle, I can hold the shaft more vertically and just rotate the jaws. Using either the handle on the shaft or the ball at the end are both more natural movements than a regular lopper.

It's not a problem, but the head rotation axis is not what I had expected from the picture. If the tool was lying on the ground, it would be ready to cut a stick that was also lying on the ground, no matter how the jaws are rotated.

The only negative thing I would say is that there are serrations in the head that make it difficult to adjust the angle. There's a quick release lever to loosen the head up, but it doesn't move until you pry the two halves apart from each other. I suppose that without the serrations, it would need too much clamping pressure and crack the plastic. I'll probably have to group the cuts for a certain jaw orientation and rotate the head only every once in a while.

Great product.