“Read Before Use" – you might have seen this phrase in almost all things that require technical skill to use. Power tools for garden need expertise to handle; otherwise your garden can be ruined before you make it beautiful. Another problem is the varieties of power tools for garden in the market. If you don’t have a prior knowledge of the power tools that you may be looking for gardening, then your investment may go in vain. Here follows some of the widely used power tools for gardening and some useful how-to-use instructions:



1.Hedge Trimmer

Hedge trimmer can be found of two types: petrol driven or electric driven. The basic differences between these two types are: the petrol driven hedge trimmer is a bit heavier, but the advantage you can take it to any corner of your garden even beyond your garden. But the electric hedge trimmer is a bit lighter in comparison to petrol driven hedge trimmer and less noisy and easy to use. The only drawback that an electric hedge trimmer has; you need to work with the length of the wire that is connected to the hedge trimmer. If you use battery powered hedge trimmer, then this problem is too solved. The size of the blade tooth gap determines the size of the branches that can be cut down. So before purchasing any hedge trimmer, you must what sizes of branches you will be dealing with. So far as the length of the blade of a hedge trimmer is concerned, it varies from brand to brand and thus varies their efficiency, too. If the trimmer has a long blade, then it takes lesser to cut a hedge and a short blade takes a bit longer in comparison to longer blades.

2.Chainsaws

Chainsaws are one of the heavy duty power tools for gardening. Chainsaw is basically used for tree felling and heavy pruning tasks. This power tools must be used by trained, skilled and competent persons with safety kits wearing. The petrol version of chainsaws comes with two-stroke engine. But the electric versions are quieter, lighter and easy to use. “All modern chainsaws have two-handed switches, and as a safety precaution a short chain stopping time and a chain break that operates if the saw kicks back." [Courtesy: DiyData.com]

3.Garden Shredders

Garden shredders are a significant tool for the bio-cultivation of your garden. Valuable ‘natural waste’ materials, including dead leaves, twigs, hedge clippings, tree pruning wastes, larger shrubs and pruned branches are a vital source of natural nutrients and when returned to your soil as shredded waste ensure the best growing conditions are obtained in your garden. With the help of a garden shredder, you can reduce such waste materials to prepare perfect bio-compost for plants of your garden. As an additional benefit of shredding garden waste, the rotting process will also be speed up by the thorough mixture of raw materials by your garden shredder.

So before purchasing these power tools for your garden, make sure you follow all those procedure that ensures the safety and security as well as save some money for you.