What are the basic tools for fruit tree pruning?

Basic pruning tools are directly used for pruning fruit trees and indispensable tools, including pruning shears, hand saws, high pruning shears, high saws, high stools, high ladders, pruning knives, hooks and sickles, clip hooks and rods, scraping and shoveling knives, ring cutter, bender and so on

Fruit tree pruning tools

(a) Pruning Shears: Pruning shears are used to prune the fine branches of the necessary tools. Requirements for cutting edge sharp, lightweight and flexible and durable. Blade steel soft and hard to be appropriate, too hard to hit the gap, too soft and easy to roll edge, wear and tear and not durable. Newly purchased scissors need to open the edge to use. General sharpening only grinding the outer edge of the beveled blade, do not grind the inside of the plane blade, or cut branches when the two blades are difficult to close, easy to clip the skin, clip branches. At the same time, we should also pay attention not to split the two blades, split grinding not only labor, and often twist the screws, shear shaft is easy to loosen and make the cutting mouth is not suitable. Shear spring soft and hard to be appropriate, too soft is not easy to support the cutter, too hard to use up a lot of effort.

(ii) hand saw: hand saw is used to saw and retract the thick branches of the necessary tools. Saw blade requirements thin and tough, soft and hard appropriate. Steel is too soft in use is easy to bend, too hard in use is easy to break and lose teeth. Saw teeth should be pointed and sharp, the vertical rash of the outside should be filed into the edge, in order to facilitate chipping down wood chips. The entire blade of the teeth to the left and right parallel to the outward, to widen the saw mouth to prevent clamping saw. The length of the saw blade to 30 to 40 centimeters for suitable, too short is sawing up effort, too long is easy to saw up swaying left and right. The width of the saw blade to 3 ~ 4 centimeters appropriate, too wide in the branch of the fork down the saw when the operation is inconvenient. Hand saws are mostly straight saws, there are also folding saws. Folding saw is easy to carry, but not as easy to use as a straight saw.

(C) high branch shears, saws and high branch hooks: high branch shears, saws are used to cut, retraction and removal of branches high up in the crown of the necessary tools. Shears, saws can be installed at one end of two long poles, can also be installed at both ends of the same pole, pole length is generally 3 to 4 meters. High branch scissors have special special sale, high branch saw is mostly the general hand saw converted into. High branch hook is used to cut the tree to explore the canopy high branches of small wooden hooks, generally available on the spot on the tree material, mostly with the base of the branches of the long branch to do. Hook pole length of about 1 meter can be. Many fruit growers have this kind of small hooks with them when cutting trees, it is very convenient to cut branches.

(D) high stool, high ladder: because of the high pruning shears, saws are actually less convenient, so many orchards in order to improve the efficiency of the work, often by stepping on a high stool, high ladder to prune the higher parts of the crown of the branches. For special high branches only with high pruning shears, saws for pruning. High stool and high ladder production materials should be durable wood or steel. High stools are mostly four-legged, high ladders are mostly three-legged.

(E) pruning knife: pruning knife is used to trim the saw kerf, wounds, scars, and the old tree to open the armor and scrape the old warped skin and other common tools. Blade requirements thin and sharp, hard and soft suitable, and slightly curved, in order to facilitate the operation of chipping and repair.

(F) hook cut sickle: hook cut sickle is a tool used by mountain fruit farmers for high canopy chestnut, pear and walnut trees on the "through the tree" (Kawasaki) when the hook cut twigs. The sickle head is about 40 centimeters long, mounted on a long pole about 4 to 4.5 meters long. The steel of the blade of the sickle is also soft and hard, and the edge is sharp.

(7) clip hook pole: persimmon area fruit farmers pick fruit with the clip hook pole is actually a pruning tool. Clip hook rod is about 4 meters long, one end for the clip, one end for the hook, in the harvesting of persimmon fruit, the fruit branches along with the picking, played a role in shortening the fruit branches.

(H) scrape shovel knife: scrape shovel knife is dedicated to shoveling disease, pest control, scrape skin, open armor and other artificial tree care operations of a tool. One end for the scraper, one end for the shovel, easy to use. The same requirements for both ends of the blade tough and sharp.

In addition, there are ring cutter, bender and so on.