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Introduction to Horticulture& Landscaping
Plant: White Pine
Cutting Tools
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White Pine
• Plant type: Evergreen Tree • USDA Hardiness Zones: 3b to 7a • Height: 50 to 75 ft. Spread: 25 to 35ft. • Exposure: partial shade to full sun
– Optimum growth in full sun
• Leaf Color: Blue, Green • Growth Rate: average • Form: Oval, Pyramidal • Landscape Uses: Christmas tree, Aggressive surface
roots possible, Screen or hedge, Specimen • Meticulous shearing necessary to form marketable
Christmas tree
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Snips
• Used for cutting small non-woody branches, flowers
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Hand Pruners
• Also called pruning shears
• Also come in anvil or bypass
• Used for cutting branches up to ½ to ¾ inch
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Hedge Shears
• Hedge & grass shears
• Have long blades and are used to cut multiple small branches with each cut
• Good: Hedges
• Bad: Meatballs
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Loppers
• Used for cutting branches up to 1 ½” diameter. Two types:
• Anvil
• Bypass
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Saws
• Pole saw
• Gas powered pole saw
• Pruning saw
• Chain saw
• Bow saw
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Name that tool
A. Lopper
B. Snips
C. Hand Pruner
D. Shears
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Name that tool
A. Lopper
B. Snips
C. Hand Pruner
D. Shears
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Name that tool
A. Lopper
B. Pruning Saw
C. Bow Saw
D. Hand Saw
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Name that tool
A. Tree Saw
B. Pruning Saw
C. Bow Saw
D. Pole Saw
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Name that tool
A. Pole Saw
B. Pruning Saw
C. Bow Saw
D. Hand Saw
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Name that tool
A. Lopper
B. Snips
C. Shears
D. Pruners
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Which tool is best for
• Cutting flowers?
• Cutting tree branches that are 2” diameter?
• Shaping a hedge?
• Cutting down a Christmas tree?