Milwaukee 3008 M18 Telescoping Pole Pruning Shears Review

[@nathanwhite5602]

Just picked up one Saturday and I love it it saved so much time

[@THEBEARDEDTOOLGUY]

Now if it was a CONVERTIBLE so you could run the SHEARS and 10 inch CHAIN SAW have Trees that I need BOTH and for $700 I could see $PENDING that

[@richardbadish6990]

That's what I thought, if u can't switch. Who on earth would spend that on pruners? U can get a pole pruner top of the line for $200 with 12-18ft of poles. It's manual but with the double pulley, it's not hard to pull. So I couldn't see doing it on the pruners, especially when the saw will do everything the pruner will and more. If it's really small stuff, use the manual pruner pole. Otherwise it's a waste of money!

[@chrischung2365]

I can’t wait for these to come out. Looks great.

[@tgsgardenmaintenance4627]

For smaller branches, this looks ideal, as the branches will still be attached to the tree, putting pressure on it is not a problem!

[@sportsman1776]

The question is do I buy this now or wait until others vet it in the real world? I have been an unpaid and unwilling beta tester for too many such products. It seems like the shear arm/leg/whatever should have a bigger 'hook' so the blade pulls stuff in instead of pushing it away and getting stuck on the blade. I wish it was designed to have the power to reliably and consistently cut up to 2" hardwood, at which point anything bigger I would switch to a polesaw. I have manual compound bypass loppers that cleanly cut 2" stuff just fine.

[@cliffordmontana4562]

I can tell you the new telescoping pole saw is AMAZING! Cuts as fast through 8” logs as a Stihl gas chainsaw. I’m not kidding. It’s a well built beast. I’ll be getting the telescoping loppers soon.

[@johnnyramirez9082]

would a 5.0 battery run it ?

[@cliffordmontana4562]

Yes

[@stevespencer5158]

Twice as much as the Ryobi version.

[@jeremynguyen2346]

How are you

[@gotahave]

Are you kidding me for that price? Typical Milwaukee, over charging.

[@cybergrindin]

Can only afford 1.. telescopic chain saw or this guy

[@richardbadish6990]

These are a waste of money! If u could switch heads to use the pole saw, itd be worth it. But the saw will do 85-90% of what these pruners will do. So its silly to pay this much on something u wont use much, if u are cutting very thin limbs. Use a manual pole pruner from Jameson with 18ft of poles and double pulley head for approx $200! Milwaukee is drunk on this one. The pole saw, now thats a home run!

[@nick_john]

I need this to cut bamboo way down at the base and a saw won’t make a clean cut. It will hack it it to shreds.

[@thecryingcowboy551]

my cousin is a landscape contractor he ratter waste more money in yeyo than purchasing this tool

[@cybergrindin]

Yayo makes him work faster 😂

[@1986capy]

what a useless machine , thank you but ill use my saw

[@mattsharkey311]

I disagree. I think that there is plenty of uses for this kind of tool, especially for trimming palm, branches, and vines down here in Florida. It will completely wrap up in a pole saw sprocket