Home-made Long-arm Pruner.
The cost of long pruning shears for tall trees is too heavy for the short time it is used by the ama-
teur gardener. However, it is so useful when high creepers and fruit trees ' have to be pruned that we are here showing a home-made "long-arm." Anyone can make this contrivance in a few minutes if one has a pair of pruning shears. Simply fasten one of the handles of the shears to the end of a long pole by means of small wire staples.
Noxt make the quadrant to act as a crank, fasten this at the right angle by a single screw. Tie a piece of cord from the top corner of the quadrant to the loose handle of the shears. To the other corner fasten a cord long enough to be worked by the primer. Take care not to have the screw through the quadrant too tight or the spring on the shears may not be strong enough to draw it back.
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Kaipara and Waitemata Echo, 10 April 1914, Page 8
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169Home-made Long-arm Pruner. Kaipara and Waitemata Echo, 10 April 1914, Page 8
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