Customer Reviews

Fiskars 9189 PowerGear 9-Inch Hedge Shears

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This tool may be pricier than other hedge shears, but it is well worth the extra money, especially if you do a lot of your own manual hedge-trimming. Because of the "power gear" feature, it requires very little effort to cut through even very thick hedge branches. I had used traditional ash-handled shears before, which I purchased for half the price of these, and I ended up giving that pair away once I started using the Fiskars. The comfortable design and the fact that the shears do most of the work for you make this a great item. I was so pleased with this Fiskars purchase that I went on to buy other Fiskars gardening tools, including the PowerGear Bypass Lopper, the PowerGear Pruner, and their telescoping pole trimmer.

The blades are made of aluminum! ! Mine bent at the edge so that the blades hang on each other and the scissors won't close... after five cuts...! I own a pair of Fiskars loppers that have a titanium cutting blade and they are excellent but this thing is a dud.
By the way I finnished the job with my 30 years old hedge trimmers that have never once been sharpened and have to be oiled every time I use them because they are rusted to the point of being siezed every year when I use them for the first time.

I have just tried these shears and hit a dead branch which put a nick in the blades and now won't work. Don't buy these shears!

Like another review the blades on these shears hung up on each other after 10 minutes of use. I bought this model at Home Depot thinking it would last me forever. I live in a new home and my shrubs are very small but were needing some minor trimming. I was using these shears for about 10 minutes and all of a sudden they would not close all the way. I thought maybe a small branch was caught in them. When I looked at the blades there was a slight groove/nick on each blade and they were biting each other. As another review wrote, the blades are too soft or something. I took them back to Home Depot (having just bought them like 30 minutes earlier) and got the cheaper Fiskars shears. I finished the job with the cheaper shears with no problem.

This is one of the best hedge shears I have ever owned. It cuts through some very thick branches with minimal effort. Well worth the money.

We bought this product because we heard it was a solid company. I used it the day we got it, was clipping some bushes along our house and the blades bit into each other and rendered itself useless. It would not close beyond where the two blades gouged into each other. I filed it down so I could use it again but it does not cut the same. I am in the process of exercising the warranty.

Other than that happening, it cut very well while it lasted, better than most any I have used in the past. I would buy it again because of the warranty and how it performs while in working order.

What can I say...but another Fiskar "cuts like a warm knife threw butter"

shear that is light, and cuts beautiful, with no need to sharpen, how do they do it? ?

I love them!

These hedge shears have a rachet system that is suppose to increase the cutting force. Three times they jumped a tooth and I had to take them apart to realign everything, then after another 5 minutes of use they slipped again. If you truly are trimming a hedge and never try to cut anything substantial (like a quarter inch diameter) they might work for you. But to me they aren't worth the extra price of models with a less sophisticated design.

I bought the Fiskars PowerGear as a replacement for my previous shears. It was difficult finding a pair that would cut through the large clumps of thick stems of ornamental grasses that I use them on. I apparently got too aggressive with my previous pair (different brand) and snapped it's die cast aluminum handle. The Fiskars are all steel construction. Yes, that's right - all steel with tempered blades. No aluminum. The gear mechanism gives me the power I need to go through the grass even easier than my previous pair. Considering their performance, I think the price was justified and am quite pleased with my purchase.

The pair I bought had the gears slip after about twenty minutes of use. I took them apart and realigned the gears, tightened back the bolts and had the same result after another ten to fifteen minutes. I am going to try the other Fiskar's set without the gears before moving on to another brand (largely due to lack of availability for quality alternatives locally and largely positive online reviews). I recommend skipping this more expensive and problem prone "gear" set.