Hedge trimmer


A hedge trimmer, shrub trimmer, or bush trimmer is a gardening tool or machine used for trimming hedges or solitary shrubs. Different designs as well as manual and powered versions of hedge trimmers exist.

Types

Stand-alone hedge trimmers

The power source of stand-alone hedge trimmers can be human power, gasoline, or electricity.
-mounted and tractor-driven hedge trimmers also exist but are not that common. These machines consist of a moveable arm with a large hedge trimmer attachment at its end. Their cutting mechanism is similar to that of finger-bar mowers.
Such large hedge trimmers are often confused with tractor-mounted reach flail mowers, which appear similar due to the use of booms. And in colloquial language both, tractor-mounted hedge trimmers and reach flail mowers, are imprecisely called hedge cutters, or brush cutters. In contrast to tractor-mounted hedge trimmers, reach flail mowers have a different cutting mechanism and are not only used for trimming hedges but also in several other fields of application.
Furthermore, some special machines allow easy trimming of specific plants or food crops and are sometimes just called trimmers, too. These include e.g. vine trimmers, and tree trimmer. Their cutting mechanisms can be very different from hedge trimmers.