Product Details

• Amazon Sales Rank: #17960 in Home Improvement
• Brand: American Gardener
• Model: GS48

Features

• Cordless grass shear ideal for grass around flower beds and light shrubbery touchups
• Comfortable safety thumb switch; safety lockout prohibits accidental blade operation
• Stainless steel blades retain sharpness and resist corrosion
• 4.8-volt high capacity NiCad power system; 40 minutes continuous cutting per charge
• 4-inch blades

Amazon.com Product Description
The American Gardener 4.8-volt cordless grass shear with 4-inch clean-cut stainless steel blades makes trimming fast easy and is especially ideal for the grass around flower beds and light shrubbery touch ups. Using a comfortable safety thumb switch, the safety lockout feature prohibits accidental blade operation. The stainless steel blades are designed to retain their sharpness and resist corrosion, while the 4.8-volt high capacity NiCad power system provides 40 minutes of continuous cutting per charge.

Customer Reviews

Sharp, Comfortable, Good Battery Life
When I lost the recharging unit to my B&D grass shear, I was already so dissatisfied that I decided to try the American Gardener 4-inch cordless. It's hard to believe that there can be such a big difference between two products. The American Gardener (AG)sheer is twice as sharp and twice as fast as the B&D. It will even cut through mondo grass and other tough stemmed plants. It is great for trimming spring growth from bushes, and even helped shape a tangelo tree and three privets.

The battery life - considering the speed - a remarkable 45-50 minutes and if that isn't tghe kicker, the AG is comfortable, lighter and seemingly more ergonomic than the B&D.

Even though there is no way to lock these shears (or any others) in an "on" position, it still deserves five stars. I'd give it more if I could liock it in an on position. Of course, I'd probably forget to turn it off and then they'd start calling me "Lefty."

Works great until blades go dull
The battery out lasts the blade.
I used the shears about 8-10 times (40 minutes each time) when blade became dull and no longer usable on simple grass. I have tried to sharpen with little success.

Best shears I've found
I've tried a lot of brands of shears over the years and these are the best I've found so far. They are powerful enough to tackle even coarse grass around the farm and keep their charge for a good 40-45 minutes. I even use them to clean up perennial beds in fall and spring.