Craftsman Anvil Lopping Shears $9.49 with free store pickup (orig. $18)

Product Description
These Craftsman anvil lopping shears have carbon steel blades for extended long life. Extended steel ferrule for durability. Fiberglass handles for strenghth. Has comfort grips.


Specifications & Dimensions
Product Overview:
Gardening Tool Type: Pruners & Loppers
Item Weight (lbs.): 3.12
Handles:
Handle Material: Fiberglass
Blade:
Blade Type: Anvil blade

Regular price $17.49. $8.00 off makes them $9.49

Hmm..I guess I don't search good. This looks to be a repost.

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I've seen this deal posted numerous times over the last year (when I started paying attenuation to them because I bought a house), and I'm always baffled why it usually gets a few thumbs up. Why anyone would pay $10 for a pair of anvil loppers, when you could get -- even from sears, even with the craftsman name, even at regular price -- a pair of bypass loppers for only a few bucks more. To start with, you should never use anvil loppers on a live plant. That alone greatly reduces their usefulness to a typical homeowner. There is a (very small) space of usefulness for anvil loppers, but it never makes sense to own an anvil set without also owning a bypass unit, and for 99% of the world, the bypass alone can do 80% of the pruning you need to do, and for the other 20% it can't because it's too thick, you're gonna need a saw to do 15% of it anyway, so just use that for the other 5% too! Only makes sense to me to invest the money and storage space for these if have these if you have a big property and spend a lot of time cutting up dead wood of all sizes, that you would use them enough.

Quote from puddnhead : I've seen this deal posted numerous times over the last year (when I started paying attenuation to them becaue I bought a house), and I'm alwasy baffled why it alwasy gets a few thumbs up. Why anyone would pay $10 for a pair of anvil loppers, when you could get -- even from sears, even with the craftsman name, even at regular price -- a pair of bypass loppers for only a few bucks more

can you elaborate? These are 10 bucks...and the ones I could find closest to your description are $25. Is this a correct comparison? is it worth 2.5x the price? What does a bypass blade give you that anvil doesn't?

http://www.sears.com/shc/s/p_1015...Toolsmv=rr

Quote from puddnhead : I've seen this deal posted numerous times over the last year (when I started paying attenuation to them because I bought a house), and I'm always baffled why it usually gets a few thumbs up. Why anyone would pay $10 for a pair of anvil loppers, when you could get -- even from sears, even with the craftsman name, even at regular price -- a pair of bypass loppers for only a few bucks more. To start with, you should never use anvil loppers on a live plant!!!

why not?

Quote from chuck4rooke : why not?

Here's one explanation [blogspot.com] that puts it better than I could.

Quote from scotthall3411 : can you elaborate? These are 10 bucks...and the ones I could find closest to your description are $25. Is this a correct comparison? is it worth 2.5x the price? What does a bypass blade give you that anvil doesn't? http://www.sears.com/shc/s/p_10153_12605_07183719000P?vName=Lawn%20&%20Garden&cName=OutdoorTools&Supplies&sName=Hand%20Gardening%20Toolsmv=rr

I was thinking of these when I posted:

http://www.sears.com/craftsman-by...ockType=G5

I'm not saying those are a quality pair (and I'm not saying they aren't either), just making the observation. they are 5 star, but only one review so it's relatively meaningless, statistically.

thanks