• ✓GUARANTEED TO LAST A LIFETIME: If you use The Gardener"s Friend Ratchet Hand Pruners in the manner and for the use that they were intended they will last a lifetime! Like any tool, if they are used for the wrong purpose or incorrectly they can be broken. We recommend that you value this tool and learn to use it property to ensure its long term functionality and reliability. * • ✓ TAKE THE CHALLENGE! Compare our pruners to any other high calibre brand of non-ratchet pruners and try to make a one inch cut through a branch of wood. Going through the stages of the cut using our pruners will take a bit longer but you will be able to complete the cut and with much less hand pressure required. We estimate from half to one third of the hand squeeze pressure is required compared to a normal anvil or bypass pruners. * • ✓ THE GARDENER"S FRIEND PRUNERS FEATURES: These defining features set our pruners apart from others in the marketplace: Lightweight alloy construction, hardened high carbon steel blade, rubberized hand grip, index finger guide, looped hand grip, left or right handed usage and latch, 3 to 4 stage ratchet action, removable oil sponge, coated blade and anvil groove, removable/replaceable blade, * • ✓ WHO CAN USE THE GARDENER"S FRIEND PRUNERS?: Wow, just about anyone but especially professional nursery owners/workers, Nursery educators, landscapers, Landscape schools and universities, Arborists, Teachers, Students, Moms, Pops, Greenhouse owners, Growers, Grandmas and Grampas, and all types of gardeners particularly those with hand mobility issues and in need of ergonomically correct pruners, * • ✓ WHERE, WHEN AND WHY ARE THESE PRUNERS SO USEFUL? As we, the gardeners and green industry professionals get older it is necessary to accommodate our new weaknesses and disabilities with new ergonomically designed secateurs and other tools so that working in the garden and the tree nursery does not mean pain. Used correctly they will be easy on the hands and will last for years. These Pruners also make awesome gifts. As the holiday and gift giving season gets closer, what could be a more appropriate gift for the mature gardener than a set of these awesome pruners. They make a great Christmas present, Thanksgiving gift, birthday gift and as spring starts to approach a few months from now, just a great anytime gift to show the gardener in your life that you care!