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My list of essential tools would include at least a pair of work gloves, hand pruners, lopping shears and a pruning saw.

Odd-shaped tools like lopping shears can also be hung from the rails.

Basically, you use lopping shears or pruners to cut a stem at shoulder level and at knee level.

Overgrown shrubs or hedges can and should be transformed with a pair of lopping shears.

Long-handled lopping shears will work and have the added value of keeping your body away from the thorns.