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We have many trees and shrubs, and keeping them in shape takes effort. Cordless pruners promise to make the work easier and faster. Do they deliver?

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Taking care of a lot of trees and shrubs is no easy task. It’s an ongoing effort to keep the yardscape from being overgrown and keep the plants and trees healthy.

I’ve seen a lot of enthusiasm for the cordless power pruners that several tool manufacturers offer. I have the DeWalt® 20V Max System set up for many tools in my maker’s shop and for around the house, vehicles, and yard. These include a tire inflator, leaf blower, chainsaw, vacuum, string trimmer, and pole saw.

I’ve had success with those tools, so I thought I would give the DeWalt® cordless pruner a shot. I got the DeWalt® DCPR320 Cordless Pruner.

I bought it as a bare tool for right at $140. It’s not cheap, but after seeing its reviews and opening the carton, I felt good about the investment. It weighs about 2-½ pounds (just over a kilogram).

My first thought was how much fatigue this would cause. It is over 3 pounds with a battery attached, so it has some heft. As it turns out, it is balanced well, and the muscle memory develops quickly to activate the safety switch trigger and position it to do the cut.

A cut takes one second. It moves fast and is designed to cut up to 1-½” (4 cm) of green wood. The tool's backend reveals its ancestry - the offspring of the DeWalt® family of drills. The front end houses the gearing and mechanism operating bypass-style coated blades. Should you need to replace the blades, there is a tool blade change nut on the side. So far, after a significant amount of spring pruning, the blades are going strong and haven’t developed any nicks.

It also has a single LED light for low-light conditions, such as pruning in the cool of the day or reaching the interior of a shrub. It’s handy without being gimmicky.

Battery life has been good. Using a 5Ah 20V Max battery gave me a couple of hours pruning various branches and stems at a moderate pace. I keep batteries on the multi-station charging system in our shop, so a battery swap-out would be a short break from work.

There are a few things that I don’t like, but I’m not sure if they could be done differently.

First, this tool operates very quickly (which is good!), but you need to be constantly aware of the position of the blades. With a 1-second cycle time, these allow you to move along very quickly, with high productivity and low fatigue. The downside is that if you have fingers grasping branches, you’ll need to steer clear of them consciously. It’s easy to get going and get careless, and a tool like this would be unforgiving.

Second, the mechanism that allows the blades to operate so powerfully does take up some space at the nose of the tool. This means getting the blades positioned where you want them in a tight space can be difficult. Sometimes, the cut will not be as flush as you would like.

So far, I’ve been favorably impressed with the tool. Although I’ve done a lot of pruning this season, I still have much to do. I’ve learned so far that fatigue is significantly reduced, and because you are not swinging open the handles of lopping shears, you move quickly.

The most significant inconvenience so far is that the pile of pruning offcuts builds up quickly and calls for a haul off to the chipper or the mulching pile.

The actual test will be how this tool holds up through the season. In about a year, we’ll do another review of the tool to see what, if any, problems or shortcomings have developed. We’ll let you know how it has turned out owning and using this tool.

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