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 - Best invention since sliced bread.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. Rating:  - Plastic DisintegratesI 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. Rating: - best pruners I ever usedI 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. Rating:  - A manly toolI 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. Rating:  - I wish I could say I like this itemI 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....
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