Customer Rating: 
Summary: Best invention since sliced bread.
Comment: Great pruners - the rotating handle mechanism virtually eliminates sore hands and the dreaded "pinch" when a branch suddenly breaks and the fleshy part of your thumb or palm gets caught.
After some heavy pruning this season, these finally gave out after years of service. Absolutely no complaints considering the abuse they took.
I'm buying two pairs and dumping my others into the recycle bin for good. Once you've tried these, you won't accept the other junk that's out there, no matter how expensive and what brand name they may have.
Customer Rating: Summary: best pruners I ever used
Comment: I just did a real-life comparison test of Felco #13 and Fiskars PowerGear 7936. The Fiskars won hands down in power, ease of cut, and comfort. The test piece was a 5/8" thick peach tree trunk that had dried up and was very solid and hard. It's harder than even a birch dowel, but the Fiskars sliced through it with ease using just a one hand grip. With the Felco 13, I had to use two hands on the long handles to achieve the same size cut and even then, the cut using one hand with the Fiskars took noticeably less effort. Whenever the Felco made a heavy cut, the handles snapped together very hard, whereas the Fiskars handles didn't snap together as hard. Translation: rubber bumpers are a must on the Felco 13, but not on the Fiskars PowerGear.
The PowerGear pruners come in two sizes #7936(large to average sized hands) and #7937(small to average sized hands). But note that a men's small is equal to a woman's large. So the words "large", "average", "small" are kind of hard to interpret. The 7937 is much harder to find at brick-and-mortar retail stores. I have somewhat small hands for a guy, (but still slightly larger than a woman's LARGE hand size), but the 7936 works just fine for me, although I think the 7937 might fit my hand slightly better.
I own both the Fiskars PowerGear and the Fiskars PowerLever pruners. My first impression when I saw the claim by Fiskars of "3X the cutting power" with the PowerGear was it must be marketing fluff. Not so! I am a convert now. These pruners live up to the marketing hype because they do cut with much less effort than regular pruners. They even cut much easier than the Power-Lever models that until now I always thought were the best pruners. The PowerGear is far better, far more comfortable, and far more powerful.
Considering the handles are plastic, these PowerGear pruners are on the heavy side, weighing 9.7 oz. Also, these pruners do not have rubber bumpers, but this is not a big deal because the rotating handle takes much of the shock away. Compared to Felco's #7, Fiskars's PowerGear is far better. For one thing, the flange on the rotating handle of Felco's #7 is too small, making the index finger too prone to slide up the handle after just a few cuts. The problem doesn't exist with the Fiskars' rotating handle because it has a much more pronounced flange. There isn't a single Felco hand pruner that comes close to the power of these Fiskars PowerGear.
You can pay much more for a Felco, ARS, or Bahco, but you can't buy a better pair of pruners than these Fiskars PowerGear.
