Oara Garden Hedge Shears forTrimming Borders

I needed this item, to clear a bunch of my neighbors overgrowth on my property. The blades are nice and sharp and make going through this overgrowth a breeze. Highly recommend!

Sharp and cuts great

I am sorry to say these shears do not cut fine stems at the tip of the blades, the last 2-3 inches are not cutting grass, no matter the tension on the bolt.I wanted something to cut meadow grass around other plants and while these are light and maneuverable and the bolt stays tightened due to the self locking nut, the blades are not correctly engineered to produce a clean cut right to the end. Fine stalks are not cut and instead bend and jam between the blades pushing them apart.The blades are sharp. they are just not held together firmly enough and are too flexible to perform at the tips where leverage makes the flexing more pronounced. Thicker stems may cut better at the tips but fine stems do not cut at all well.It may be possible for the manufacturer to improve them with a reinforcement of some kind to make the blades more rigid e.g. either thicker steel (which would make them heavier and more expensive to make) or an additional strip welded to the outside of the blades (likewise) or maybe a stamped indentation along the blade behind the cutting edge to make it more rigid.I hope they can improve them as they are light and easy to use and would otherwise be handy but as they stand I cannot recommend them for cutting light stems like grass.

These work really well on some really thick over grown lavender bushes. Cleaned two giant nasty looking things up in no time. They started to struggle on the thicker dead branches lower down, about 3/8” thick l, but they didn’t bend or break when I was puttin the hurt on em. The thicker stuff was easily reached with some little loppers after I clear the crazy stuff off with these scissors anyway. I just wanted to see how much beating these things could take. They’re perfectly fine after three days of hard chomping. However, I tried them on some super thin wispy Mexican grass and the strands of grass just slid between the blades without really cutting. I sprayed wd40 on the blades so maybe that’s why. Regular old “house scissors” worked fine for the grass anyway. These were probably just over kill for the little stuff.

not too heavy to use