What makes this tree pruner so special is that it actually features two ways to cut tree limbs. The first (and most obvious) is the saw, which is a 15-inch steel blade with a slightly curved shape. Placed at the end of a 7-foot-long pole, the toothed saw blade makes it easy to reach branches that are high up, in tight spaces you can't squeeze into, or surrounded by other branches you actually do want to keep.
The part that most delighted me, though, was the pruner that's built into the pole. For branches up to 1 1/8 inches thick, use the hook under the saw blade to grab them, then pull the long string to lever them closed. It's about as difficult as pulling the chain of a lamp (which is to say, not very).
When he arrived, he delighted in showing me how it worked - then once the dead trees were snipped and piled into his truck, he wandered my yard looking for more dead branches to cut. The branch hanging over my roof? Gone. The one dipping into our yard from the neighbor's? Sliced. The one hanging above our patio? Poof.
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