{"id":1752,"date":"2007-07-02T05:00:00","date_gmt":"2007-07-01T23:00:00","guid":{"rendered":""},"modified":"2013-01-31T14:06:18","modified_gmt":"2013-01-31T21:06:18","slug":"black-decker-al","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/kk.org\/cooltools\/black-decker-al\/","title":{"rendered":"Black &amp; Decker Alligator Lopper Chainsaw"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>This unique chainsaw is especially good for sawing slender limbs that a <a href=\"https:\/\/kk.org\/cooltools\/stihl-chainsaw-1\/\">traditional chainsaw<\/a> tends to keep pushing away instead of cutting, a particularly frustrating and dangerous thing when perched on a ladder. It&#8217;s small and light, and thanks to the scissors-like gripper one can easily manage fairly large limbs when up on a ladder. We have elms, a cottonwood, a pear tree, a crab apple, and a box elder, and I use mine generally one to two times a year unless wind damage or heavy snowfall breaks some limbs. <a href=\"https:\/\/kk.org\/cooltools\/fiskars-powerge\/\">Manual loppers<\/a> are longer than the Alligator, so they have better reach. However, they require greater arm spread, too. The advantage of the Alligator is cutting speed, gripping-power, and its light weight and maneuverability.<\/p>\n<p>&#8212; Dirk Murcray<\/p>\n<p>This lopper-on-steroids is also great for those of us with a touch of chainsaw-phobia, since the cutting chain is covered by the guards and you don&#8217;t have to worry as much about kick-back and such.  I had procrastinated for months about cutting a stand of saplings because I dislike chainsaws, but I breezed through them in a few hours with my trusty Alligator &#8212; it was even kinda fun! If you dread using a chainsaw, but have to cut branches too big for your lopper, get one of these puppies. Cuts anything up to 4 inches in diameter. I&#8217;ve had mine for about 8 months and have since gotten a lot of yard clean-up done that I was putting off (anything too big for a standard lopper). One unforeseen problem: all my friends keep wanting to borrow it&#8230;and keep it.  Get your own, guys!<\/p>\n<p>&#8212; Barbara Dace<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>High-powered branch &amp; limb maintenance<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":4,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_monsterinsights_skip_tracking":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_active":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_note":"","_monsterinsights_sitenote_category":0},"categories":[38],"tags":[],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/kk.org\/cooltools\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1752"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/kk.org\/cooltools\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/kk.org\/cooltools\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/kk.org\/cooltools\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/4"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/kk.org\/cooltools\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1752"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/kk.org\/cooltools\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1752\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":9549,"href":"https:\/\/kk.org\/cooltools\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1752\/revisions\/9549"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/kk.org\/cooltools\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1752"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/kk.org\/cooltools\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1752"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/kk.org\/cooltools\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1752"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}