Customer Reviews

Corona Clipper WL6490 37-Inch Professional Super Duty Bypass Lopper with 3-Inch Cutting Capacity

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I love good hand tools and have bought and inherited many of the best. After much shopping research, it appeared that this Corona Clipper 37" Professional Super Duty Bypass Lopper would be a great addition to my tool collection. Unfortunately, I can give it only two stars for being ruggedly built and having a good sharp blade, because the performance has been a disappointment.
Recently, I've been trimming a lot of trees, (honey locust, cottonwood, silver maple, and oak) and I found that the lopper took a good deal of force to trim off small diameter limbs (<3"). For several weekends, I worked on these trees (14 trailer loads of brush and limbs) and I kept trying out the lopper. Though I am above average in strength, I found that I was doing much more work than the lopper was doing.
I just now came out the yard after attacking some 25 year old Manhattan Euonymus bushes. They were very over-grown and 10 feet tall. Some of the base vines were over 3" diameter. I wiggled my way into the tangled mess with my Corona lopper and found out quickly that this was the wrong tool to cut the base vines. To open the blade jaw, even for a small diameter cut, required that the handles spread open very wide, too wide for the tight quarters I was in. So I pulled out some old loppers I had, Fiskars 24" geared action. It did the job well. After pulling out the vine/limbs, I decided to test the cutting force of the Corona versus the Fiskars. The Fiskars required less effort to cut through the same limb. That's when I decided to write this review.
The Corona product has good quality materials, but the design is a dinosaur for effective cutting.

I've been using these loppers for a year and a half. They are enourmously more effective than any loppers at $40-50. Pricey, yes, but worth every penny.
The blade is of ultra-high quality steel, and so sharp, you would think you could shave with it. In fact, if you have kids, you'd better take care to keep them away from this tool.
The handles are tough and show no signs of weakening or cracking, despite dreadfully heavy use.
The manufacturer's rating on the maximum branch diameter is modest. In fact, you can cut much thicker branches with this unit - with ease. My use of a small chain-saw has dropped to nil.
The clippers are heavier than any I've used before. You notice the weight after a while. But, the speed and ease of cutting makes up for that.
I've found that storage can be a little tricky. When you hang the clippers, they have a tendency to swing open - and you -really- don't want that to happen with something this sharp. It takes a little playing to find out how to hang them securely (using the manufacturer-provided metal ring, and your own loop of rope).

This is a tremendously valuable tool. If you want the best, I believe these Corona clippers may be it. But, of course, you'll pay for it. In this case, however, I believe I've got everything I paid for, so I can give full marks in the rating of these clippers.

I purchased a pair of these loppers several years ago for $150 and have used them for over 100 hours of work. Compared to a $40 pair of loppers which I purchased with a "lifetime warranty" and then bent the same afternoon, these loppers are wonderful. The hardened steel is extremely hard and around 1/4" thick -- I cannot imagine what it would take to make the steel fail on these loppers. As far as the handles go, I did eventually manage to break one of the handles after a couple years which I replaced with a custom-made handle fabricated from oak and some angle iron. These loppers slice through green wood like butter. The problems I've had with the handle originated from cutting through a dry branch which had been down on the ground. While these loppers are not unbreakable, they are by far the toughest loppers I have come across.

This is one big heavy duty pruner, and it is not for the faint of heart. I have gone through several pruners and am tired of the smaller ones that can't do the job or wear out too quickly. I used this big bypass lopper for several hours yesterday, and yes, it is heavy, and yes, it does include a fair amount of effort to cut with it. But I made short work of up to 3-inch green branches (all fresh wood) and the long ~36" handles allow plenty of leverage and allow you to reach high from the ground to get at those nuisance branches. I had previously read all of the other posts on this lopper before ordering this baby, and at around 6 lbs it does take a fair amount effort, but the wooden handles are very long and allow good leverage. The business cutting end of this tool is indeed awesome and is almost scary when you first look at it (like it came out of a slasher movie), but it is a no-nonsense heavy duty clipper. I had no trouble cutting up almost three inches of fresh branches and tree saplings, but it does take pressure, strength, work, and space to work because the handles opens so wide as do the jaws. Make no mistake, you need more than one lopper for different kinds of pruning, and this is a specialized professional-type tool for the bigger stuff. However, as a previous post wrote, when I don't want to fire up the chain saw, this baby will do the trick up to three inches. I was also using my chain saw yesterday to take out a few trees, and I used the lopper to clear away suckers so I could work. Now I'm 64 years old and no spring chicken, but I work out every day, and I looked at using this lopper as just a part of the workout. It is heavy, but I don't mind lugging it around (I carry it on my shoulder), but it does have a welded eyelet so you can attach a clip to carry it if you want or to hang it in your tool shed. In short, I'm not sorry I bought it and will no doubt pass it down in my family one day as you can easily replace the handles, and sharpen the drop-forged business end of the tool. That's why they call it the professional lopper of the Corona clippers. If you want something that is easier to cut up to 3-inch branches with, you can go with the ratchet/anvil type loppers, but they take a while to use but do save your strength. Guess I like to work too quickly. I do have a smaller bypass lopper for small stuff, and my hand pruner for small pruning, but now my pruning tool kit is complete.

I've been a landscape contractor for 25 years and have used all sorts of pruning tools. This is a great heavy duty lopper, however this tool is not a finesse tool. I use it for lopping off small tree branches--suckers---de-caining large shrubs and shrub removal. The Corona 37" lopper cuts very well(it cuts much better than a smaller lopper) and is only limited to the strenth of the person using it. I'm sure it would cut a three inch branch but most people are not that strong. I use a pruning saw for anything over 2 inches.

Not much to say about it really, it's a big lopper ! Corona loppers are more than high quality enough for my needs. And this is simply a jumbo version of a regular lopper, great when a branch is to big for a standard lopper, but there aren't enough of them to justify getting the chainsaw ready. It's the .44 magnum on loppers, if Arnold needed a lopper he'd keep this one in the back seat of his Hummer, Hasta La Vista branchy !!! See you in hell ! Lol.

Yup, it takes strength and effort to cut the maximum diameter stems, but I've had three of these, and they outcut anything less. Ones with more complex leverage engineering are too stiff to open and cut with quickly, and they invariably end up coming apart as an impatient user tries to torque and twist them.

No other lopper cuts nearly the diameter of these. They have earned their purchase prices many times over eleven years.

these loppers did not preform well at all, when tried to cut a 3" tree
could not cut at all. Handles seemed to want to break instead of cut limb.
It also requires a tremendous amount of stregnth to operate loppers.
preformance ratings of 1 to 10, I give them a three. Needless to say, I returned item.

These loppers are indeed super duty! Have been using them for two years on a lot of tough jobs and they are holding up great. Very sharp blades, hide them from the kids!!!Highly recommended for serious clearing.

I purchased these because I am the sort that is too lazy to put down the loppers to go and grab a chainsaw when required. I put these things to the test immediately by cutting 3-3.5inch cedar and lilac branches (dead and alive). They performed well. The only weakness are the handles which perform as advertised if you are cutting the recommended diameter branches. I about broke one of the handles attempting to cut through a 4 inch branch on a white oak. It took every ounce of strength to get through it and I felt one of the handles start to give. Good news is that these can handle you torquing the loppers back and forth due to the very heavy bolt assembly as well as extremely tough cutting head.

The cutting head has remained sharp. I need to replace one of the handles but that was my doing and not the fault of these loppers. Take care of them and they should last a lifetime.

Do yourself a favor if you are like me and spend the extra money for this quality product instead of going through multiple 20-40 dollar loppers which end up costing you as much, if not more than just biting the bullet and buying these. You won't regret it.