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Popular Mechanics
October 1999
Roy Berendsohn |
A Cut Above Pruning tools for healthier plants.   |
| This Old House |
Norm's Notebook: Hand Pruners TOH landscape contractor Roger Cook offers his pruning tips and techniques. |
Popular Mechanics
April 2006
Merle Henkenius |
4-Step Pruning Plan Besides improving its appearance, judicial cutting can boost a plant's health. It's easy -- and your trees and shrubs will thank you. |
This Old House
Lynne Ocone |
10 Minutes to More Flowers A quick annual pruning will keep flowering shrubs shapely and full of blooms. |
| National Gardening |
Renovating a Flowering Shrub Old shrubs often become overgrown and full of crowded stems and dead wood. To reduce the shrubs' size and width and rejuvenate them, follow these pruning techniques. |
This Old House
Lynn Ocone |
The Kindest Cut How and when to prune small trees and shrubs |
| National Gardening |
Pruning Trees and Shrubs With a little instruction and some common sense, you'll be able to prune your trees, shrubs, and roses like a pro and have beautifully shaped, flowering plants to boot. |
National Gardening
Lee Reich |
Pruning Fruit Trees How to get young trees off to a good start and keep mature trees productive... |
Popular Mechanics
May 2009 |
Bypass Hand Pruner Abusive Lab Test Fiskars' pruners cut with the least effort, and no tool could top Felco's blade durability. But the best all-around performer was also the least expensive: A.M. Leonard's 1286. |
This Old House
Kathryn Keller |
Hedging Your Best A shrub border can enhance your property -- if you keep it in top shape. Here is some expert advice on maintaining a living fence. |
This Old House
John Kelsey |
Choosing and Using Table Saws If you're frustrated with the clumsiness and lack of accuracy of a circular saw in ripping material and in trimming small pieces, you may want to consider a bench-top table saw. |
This Old House
Norm Abram |
Norm's Notebook: How To Use a Handsaw A master carpenter offers advice about using handsaws. |
| National Gardening |
Garden Tools 101 Use loppers to cut branches that are too large for hand shears, but too small for a saw. |
This Old House
Clayton DeKorne |
Choosing and Using a Circular Saw What style is right for you, what features to look for, and how to use it safely |
Fast Company
Sarah Kessler |
48 Years Later, This Is How Fiskars Keeps Improving On Its Classic Orange-Handled Scissors The conference room table at Fiskars's Madison, Wisconsin U.S. headquarters is littered with the process of scissor innovation. |
| National Gardening |
Pruning a Hedge Don't hedge your bets. Here's when, how and how much you should prune your hedges. |
This Old House
Jason Carpenter |
Puzzled by Jigsaws? A jigsaw combines versatility, portability, and finesse to do something other tools can't: cut straight lines or sweeping curves in all sorts of materials. That's why it's a great first saw for a home workshop and the second most popular power-tool purchase. |
Popular Mechanics
November 14, 2008
Joseph Truini |
10 Circular Saw Secrets: DIY GUY Circular saws aren't just woodcutting tools. When fitted with the proper blade, the saw can also saw through various types of metal and masonry. |
Popular Mechanics
May 2009
Logan Ward |
50 Tools Everyone Should Own (With Tips!) We need tools to build, repair and maintain the mechanical world in which we live. With these 50 tools, you'll be ready for just about any project. |
Finefishing Saltwater
Bill Rival |
Knife Filleting Match Your Knife And Filleting Method For Improved Results |
Popular Mechanics
December 15, 2008
Mark Clement |
11 Tools to Get for Your Kids I believe the lessons learned at the business end of a wrench are confidence, determination and success. That matters to me, because today, I'm the dad. |
National Gardening
Charlie Nardozzi |
Early Bloomers Need a fix of flowers to offset the drab colors of winter? Just step outside. By pruning branches from many common deciduous trees and shrubs, you can create beautiful indoor bouquets to serve as harbingers of spring. |
| National Gardening |
Garden Tools and Ergonomics Ergonomic garden tools are designed to keep the body in neutral positions while working, lessening the amount of stress on joints and muscles. |
Popular Mechanics
February 2006 |
PM's Upgrade - Home Gear Chain saw with jaws... Snowshoes that bite... Variable-speed jigsaw... Space heater is visibly hot... |
Popular Mechanics
May 7, 2009 |
Top 15 New Tools from the 2009 National Hardware Show: Editor's Choice Awards Cool new tools for the homeowner from telescoping loppers to generators. |
Popular Mechanics
December 2002
Thomas Klenck |
Choice Cuts We put six scroll saws through their paces. |
