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2. How to Clean Garden Tools in 5 Easy Steps So They Last a Lifetime

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   After cleaning off dirt and rust from your garden tools, take a few moments to sharpen edged tools like shovels and hoes with a flat file. Use a whetstone to sharpen pruning shears and other blades.

3. When Is It Too Late to Prune Roses Before Winter?

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   Use a pair of sharp bypass pruners when cutting back small rose canes. These scissor-like tools cleanly cut the wood. Use long handled lopping shears to cut back canes that are 1 inch or larger in ...

4. Pruning shears - Wikipedia

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   When the pruners are open, the blade is longer than the anvil thanks to the eccentric bearing. When the pruners close, the blade draws back slightly while it pushes through the material. This reduces the cutting force needed to make a cut still further. Because they crush the stem they are cutting, anvil pruners are best for use on dead wood. [2]

5. Do you need pruners for your garden? - AOL

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   Pruning shears can be a useful way to trim plants and clip away damaged stems — experts share their favorites for the gardening season. Pruning shears can be a useful way to trim plants and clip ...

6. Pruning - Wikipedia

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   Pruning is a horticultural, arboricultural, and silvicultural practice involving the selective removal of certain parts of a plant, such as branches, buds, or roots. The practice entails the targeted removal of diseased , damaged, dead, non-productive, structurally unsound, or otherwise unwanted plant material from crop and landscape plants .

7. Jointing (sharpening) - Wikipedia

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   Jointing is usually the first step in the process of sharpening: When sharpening a hand saw blade, the teeth are jointed by running a flat file over the tips of the teeth so that they are all of the same height. Circular saw blades are jointed prior to sharpening so that all teeth protrude from the blade the same distance from the centre.

8. How Often Should You Sharpen Your Lawn Mower Blades? 10 ... - AOL

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   The more frequently you mow the lawn, the faster the blades will start to dull, so you may find that you need to sharpen the blades more than two or three times per mowing season for the best results.

9. Sharpening jig - Wikipedia

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   The purpose of the sharpening jig is to hold the blade or tool at the desired angle while grinding or honing the bevel. In some cases, the angle of the bevel is critical to the performance of the cutting edge—a jig allows for repeatability of this angle over a number of sharpening sessions. There are many styles of jig available commercially.