Customer Reviews

ARS 24-1/2-Inch Hedge Shears HS-K1000

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After 12 years of use I had to replace my first pair of ARS K-1000 Hedge Shears. I chose to replace them with the same shear because I found the angled handles to be more comfortable than regular straight handled shears. I have small hands. The narrow handles are a nice fit. The blades stayed sharp after 12 years of use on laurel hedges, rhodies, and evergreen shrubs around the perimeter of both my house and my yard. The shears don't replace my electric trimmer, but they really perform well for their intended use. I like the fact that ARS provides a protective cover for the blades.

We had an old shears that we were going to sharpen - but I thought we'd just buy a new one. After some research, we ordered this one. I tell ya, even though it costs a bit more than others, it is SO worth the price. It cuts through the shrubs like melted butter. I can't believe how well it works - how sharp it is. I am so glad we bought this instead of trying to resurrect our old one which never worked half as well as this one.

Buy this - you'll love it.

I have many garden tools, but this is the sharpest, most dependable yet. Just what I had hoped for when I ordered it.

I have been searching for these shears for two years. They are the same shears used by the gardeners at Versailles to trim the topiary in the gardens. What a great find!

This ARS 24 1/2 inch hedge shears fills a void I once had. It is somewhere between a lopper and a true hedge clipper. It is extremely light weight and very sharp. I am very impressed so far with the craftsmanship; the quality reminds me of my Felco hand clippers.
I have a plant that has tough sword-shaped leaves that had been hard to trim. I would whack and whack at the plant with sharp shears but wouldn't completely cut it. Not anymore! The sharpness and reach of these shears made the job easy.
Its lightness makes it very easy to use at all angles.

A superb tool. I had this tool years ago, but got lost during a move. Been sorry ever since. My new ARS hedge shears are the easiest tool to use in terms of lightness, and manoeuvreability. They are precise and always sharp. I will never be without them again.

I bought those so I could shove them into my compost bin and quickly chop up everything I just threw in there. They work great. They slice and dice the thickest stems with no problems at all. Now everything in my compost bin will finish much faster.

I bought these mainly to cut back my deer grass in the Spring. These decorative grass clumps are very tough and thick. I was barely able to cut them with one hand grass shears. It was still difficult with these hedge shears but very doable. I also used them to cut big weeds and two feet tall grass that had been let go way too long in the backyard. In places where bunch grass was too hard to use my string trimmer I easily cut it with the hedge shears. It seems to work well on any branches a half inch or less thick, too.

These shears are lightweight and a pleasure to use. They are relatively expensive but well worth the price.

The shears available at the home improvement stores are nowhere close to being sharp enough to trim the cloud pines that I have and using pruning scissors took forever and was exhausting. With these shears I've been able to do in hours what had taken me days in previous years - and with much better results. Well worth the money!

These are great. Very sharp and light - so much better than the old heavy hedge shears I used for years.