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Are scissors sharper than secateurs?

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  • DovefromaboveDovefromabove Posts: 88,147
    quwa475 said:
    Dovefromabove said:
    Not being rude, but it feels like I'm looking after a 2 year old who keeps asking 'Why?'

    In response I want to ask 'Why do you want to know?'  
    Just out of curiosity
    Have you read Kipling’s The Elephant’s Child? 🐘 

    It’s reputedly not good for cats either 🐈 

    😉 

    Gardening in Central Norfolk on improved gritty moraine over chalk ... free-draining.





  • B3B3 Posts: 27,505
    edited February 2021
    I dropped secateurs on my foot and blood spurted about 4 inches into the air. It was terrifying.
    I now instinctively jump back if I drop anything.
    In London. Keen but lazy.
  • quwa475quwa475 Posts: 20
    B3 said:
    I dropped destroyed on my foot and blood spurted about 4 inches into the air. It was terrifying.
    I now instinctively jump back if I drop anything.
    You dropped what?
  • B3B3 Posts: 27,505
    Secateurs. Sorry predictive text😕
    In London. Keen but lazy.
  • quwa475quwa475 Posts: 20
    B3 said:
    Secateurs. Sorry predictive text😕
    Did you need a plaster or anything? Which model were the secateurs?
  • B3B3 Posts: 27,505
    No  I had to put my foot up and my 18 month old daughter managed to get me a tea towel. Decades ago. I've no idea if the make.
    In London. Keen but lazy.
  • quwa475quwa475 Posts: 20
    edited February 2021
    B3 said:
    No  I had to put my foot up and my 18 month old daughter managed to get me a tea towel. Decades ago. I've no idea if the make.
    Were they particularly sharp though? I'm guessing they landed point down right?
  • Hostafan1Hostafan1 Posts: 34,889
    quwa475 said:
    B3 said:
    No  I had to put my foot up and my 18 month old daughter managed to get me a tea towel. Decades ago. I've no idea if the make.
    Were they particularly sharp though? I'm guessing they landed point down right?
    no, the handles were razor sharp though
    Devon.
  • B3B3 Posts: 27,505
    @quwa475. I think I've been suckered by a WUM😆
    In London. Keen but lazy.
  • wild edgeswild edges Posts: 10,497
    quwa475 said:
    Hi everyone,

    Is it true that the majority of secateurs have a rounded tip and thus aren't particularly sharp? I'm from the UK and it seems you don't have to be 18 to buy secateurs unlike some scissors? I'm just curious.

    Cheers
    The law says:

    Section 141A of the Criminal Justice Act 1988 makes it an offence to sell or let or hire to a person under 18 years:

    • any knife, knife blade or razor blade
    • any axe
    • any other article which has a blade or which is sharply pointed and which is made or adapted for use for causing injury to the person
    Both scissors and bladed gardening tools are covered by the legislation and would be subject to appropriate age checks before sale. The law doesn't recognise a sharp point as defining a blade so any tool with a cutting edge is covered by the above. Similarly it's also an offense to carry bladed articles in public (subject to some exemptions) so you can be arrested for having scissors or secateurs without good reason. You can thank scaremongering institutions like The Daily Mail for landing us with that. :|

    If you can keep your head, while those around you are losing theirs, you may not have grasped the seriousness of the situation.
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