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lopping shears..handles about 2 foot long are heaps easier than a machete..... but its all swings n roundabouts...for crown fern and skinny sticks a hookfern slasher is VERY hard to beat..the trick...

placemakers is where I found mine...fatter at the tip and a good shaped plastic handle...I do with they would put a boxguard on them like the old navel cutlass to keep the gorse away.