GARTOL 29 Inch Bypass Loppers Heavy Duty Garden Branch Cutter and Pruner

UPDATE (MAY 2026): They're still great and I still get great use out of all three pieces. I don't use them all of the time, but regularly enough and they never fail me when I do use them. I want to clarify that I've used the strongest one to cut bigger than 2". You just have to be patient and cut around until what you're cutting falls down or you can break it off. Still a great purchase for me. ORIGINAL: Visiting family and one asked me to help them cut down some trees on one of their rental properties. I imagined big trees and although I wanted to say no, I didn't (they need the help). The day we went over to cut, I saw them grab their tools that looked like these. I got excited and ran to grab mine. When we arrived at the property, it was crazy wild (their yard man needs to be fired). We got to work immediately and I was pleased with how easily mine were cutting through everything it could fit around. To be clear, I mostly used the cutters. I didn't use the trimmers until day two. I didn't use the small ones at all (which is unfortunate because they would have made things even easier) because I forgot to bring them both days. I could have really used them the second day when I was doing the cleanup/pruning. I really wish I'd taken before pictures before we cut anything because the difference after being there for two days is crazy. We cut down so much! Mine were new, so they were much sharper. I easily cut down the bulk of everything we cut down. Now, my family member's tools were of higher quality, so they were heavier. In this situation, heavy was not a plus. Although after the first day, the green plastic parts were showing noticeable signs of stress. However, I'm guessing the average buyer has no intentions of using them as hard as I did for those two days. In fact, when I get home, I will only need them for light use. These tools will last me for years! I'm excited, after helping my family member, with knowing these tools can pull heavy duty work. These just aren't the ones I'd buy for consistent heavy duty work or commercial use. For home use?? Press the buy button already! I'll take before & after pictures of where I use them on my yard, when I go back home. Then, I'll update this review.

Can’t believe how well these work! I have 90 acres of woods and fields (mostly woods), so there is a lot to do. These loppers have increased the amount of work I can do by probably 70%. They are super heavy duty, and cut some really thick stuff. I also like the handles, which are comfortable and long. Best money I’ve spent in a very long time! Highly recommend!

Works great! Put the extension to use a lot. It helps with leverage on thicker limbs and reaching the higher ones

Bought item in May 2025 and used sparingly until today, Aug 2025. Item worked extremely well while it was intact. Unfortunately, the cutting blade fractured as I was cutting a small branch. Could be a manufacturing defect on the blade. Not sure about the warranty so I emailed the manufacturer with a warranty question, per Amazon instructions. Still waiting for a reply. ========== It's Sep 2025 and I'm amending my review. Gartol Customer Care replied to my warranty question and apologized that the cutting blade fractured. They asked if I wanted a replacement item. I told them that all I needed was a replacement cutting blade since the rest of the lopper was still in good shape. Before agreeing to my suggestion, I had demonstrated to them that I had the mechanical aptitude to disassemble the lopper. Prior to disassembly, I took careful pictures so I knew how to reassemble it; sent the pictures to Customer Care. Gartol sent over two replacement cutting blades from their overseas supplier. I received the blades and was successful in reassembling the unit with a new cutting blade. Now I have an operational lopper with a spare cutting blade. My interaction with Gartol Customer Care was professionally handled and lead to a successful repair of useful tool. Who knows why the blade failed; maybe some unseen internal defect in the blade material. Bottom line, Gartol Customer Care was able to remedy my issue to our mutual satisfaction.

Very beautiful design. I used it two days ago. The packaging needs tweeting. A simple corrugated piece of cardboard was used to connect the components onto the cardboard box. The left & right side of the box was unfastened. I could here components moving around. The components were designed to hold the components secured with tiewraps, but just about all of the tiewraps had ripped causing a big mess. Suggest using a simple backer-plate to prevent this from happening again. The hedge trimmer was really nice, but had a feature not show on the box. I latter determined it was lock, I guessed. I had been using this tool for about 1-1/2 hrs when I started having trouble with the tool. The shears weren't closing all the way. The red locking mechanism was loose and then I noticed there was a small green hook which later broke off. I think the locking feature is not need for this tool. But now my blade hang up because it's damaged. 🙁 I really liked the tools and was a great value! The aluminum adjustable handles are great for mechanical advantage when you need it and light enough to prevent fatigue.

There are always people writing Amazon reviews that casually claim a lopper "cuts like butter" without giving specifics. With the Gatrol, softwoods do cut like butter even without extending the handles. Likewise fast growing oak or maple will probably cut fairly easy. Slow growing wood of any type is more dense and will be more difficult. For example, I have a slow growing boxwood bush that needs to be cut back. A mere glance might suggest it is easy, but oh my! It is the densest wood I have seen. I have a full size geared lopper that utterly failed in this task. Gatrol did cut off a 1" stem at ground level, but definitely not like butter and only with the handles fully extended. It took some muscle, but it was better than getting out my chain saw and risk getting the chain in the dirt. As other reviewers have suggested, fully extending the handles does make it very unwieldy. Check the Janka wood hardness test on Wikipedia. Boxwood is over twice as hard as white oak! Other common trees with hard wood that may be trouble are ironwood, live oak, mesquite, and osage orange.

Works well cutting fair size branches and light enough for my arthritis joints even when extended.

Less then 6 months and used 4 times tops because we purchased in the winter. The blade snapped in is no longer usable. I think for the price the quality should have been better. These trimmes are now useless. And for the price simply not worth using a handful of times. To be completely clear these were not used on thick branches. Very basic trims on three bushes in front of our home. These are the worst trimmers we have ever used. The Dollar General store trimmers actually lasted longer than these. The trimmers were stored inside our home the whole 6 months that we have on them. Very disappointed.

These are great loppers. Really sharp and you can cut through some fairly thick limbs with them. I've been able to cut through some nearly 2 inches thick and no problem with them twisting or breaking.

Even though the handles are shorter than some, they are robust and with next to no flex, easily cut through the maximum diameter limbs as advertised. Very pleased with them so far. FYI do not lend them to anybody that has not been instructed NOT to twist the handles to finish a cut. That will destroy this type of anvil cutter.

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Love these loppers, we have overgrown holly and laurel trees at the end of our garden which have now been chopped back into shape with ease with these loppers, went through some pretty big branches and tbh I’m wishing I’d bought them years ago

Excellent value . Good quality make, I cut bush and branches for days with this