June 3rd, 2006
Black and Decker Alligator Lopper: Ultimate “Man’s Tool”
By Michael Tate
Guest Contributor, RealTechNews
Nothing really brings satisfaction like actual work and when it’s outside work, thats all the better. And outside yard work…well, men need power tools. (Mmmm yes tools, must have tools.)
And the more bizarre the tool, the better. (it’s a guy thing) Black and Decker has another power tool destined for greatness, a POWER pruning tool. It can eat through a four inch branch in mere seconds. Behold the Alligator Lopper. We Say: Didn’t I see this thing welded onto a henchman?
–Innovative Clamping Jaws Grab and Cut in One Easy Motion
–4.5 Amp Motor for Powerful Fast Cutting
–Heavy Duty Cutting Bar and Chain Deliver Fast Cutting of Thick Branches and Logs
-4″ cut capacity for cutting heavy branches too big for manual pruners and loppers $99.97
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Alice Adds: Manly yes, but I like it too!
Jame Gumb says:
That could come in very handy, if I do say so myself.
June 3rd, 2006 at 11:55 am
jeem says:
real men use an actual chain saw.
June 3rd, 2006 at 12:02 pm
John McDole says:
Now if it came with a 4cycle gas motor, then it would be manly. Electric yard tools are a little to frou-frou for me.
June 3rd, 2006 at 12:12 pm
Marimutsu says:
Just pray that your loan shark doesnt get a hold of one of these. Ever see that movie U-Turn?
June 3rd, 2006 at 12:15 pm
Jason Lutz says:
Agreed on the need for a gas motor. But there is something deeply satisfying about a gargantuan pair of shears with some strange shark/monster painted on the blades.
June 3rd, 2006 at 12:38 pm
Larry_the_Orc says:
This is a “wanna be” chainsaw- for the price you could get a Poulan chainsaw on sale with a 14″ bar, and do some “serious” residental logging.
However, this “wannabe” does run off electric- which is good for those people who can’t figure out gas/oil ratios and don’t want to have gas equipment in their garages.
OH NO- can’t do that! You can buy a real electric chain saw for 40 bucks- so you can save 60 dollars for beer and pretzels.
This “tool” is designed to seperate a guys money from his wallet and thats all.
June 3rd, 2006 at 1:08 pm
Tavor says:
“We Say: Didn’t I see this thing welded onto a henchman?”
You are probably thinking of the prostetic arm of Tee Hee (Julius W Harris’ charactor in the Bond movie Live and Let Die)
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June 3rd, 2006 at 1:12 pm
lucasmeyer says:
real men use gas powered tools??? whatever happened to muscle powered ones, wussies!!! even kung fu techniques for severing limbs of both tree and foe…power tools….sheeesh. lame…
June 3rd, 2006 at 2:14 pm
John Patterson says:
Black and Decker means it will break down on you after three uses.
June 3rd, 2006 at 3:22 pm
JB says:
Nice on paper; however I would have to see how it performs against my gas powered chain saw. Looks unduly complicated — and of very limited capacity/capability. The lower jaw seems to lack function and acts as a limit on capacity.
June 3rd, 2006 at 3:55 pm
Lorcan says:
You people fail to see the coolness aspect of a robotic pincer.
June 3rd, 2006 at 5:14 pm
Lorina Bobbit says:
Hummmm.. I can think of atlease one use for it
June 3rd, 2006 at 5:38 pm
Mikey says:
Looks like what I want to use in dealing with my yard nemesis… I got one that’s come back so many times, I think it might be a zombie Honeysuckle.
June 3rd, 2006 at 6:31 pm
Moon says:
anybody ever hear of a bow saw for a four inch limb?…naa, too much work….much easier to string out the extension cord ,climb a ladder and magically hold a wand to make tree limbs go away….unless it has a 15 foot extension adaptor to save me getting up in the tree, I see no use for it….if only life were so easy
June 3rd, 2006 at 10:23 pm
Elvis says:
You just know that some man-tool is gonna get in a drunken fight with his little princess and she’ll use the B-world and he’ll use the C-word before passing out drunk and she’ll use this newfangled man tool of his on this man-tool’s man tool and before you can say BOBBIT we’ll have days and days of entertainment from Wolf Blitzer in the Situation Room anomng others.
Nancy Grace will say the man-tool had it coming… And we’ll say “not any more!”
June 4th, 2006 at 6:12 am
Walter E. Wallis says:
The primary function seems to be the elimination of the kickback that so often accompanies chainsawing small branches.
June 4th, 2006 at 9:37 am
FrankenPengie says:
The jaws of life could be the jaws of death for a tree. Clamp-cutting on a limb could open up a whole new problem. Do it right.
June 4th, 2006 at 7:16 pm
Frobozz says:
I have one (I own a chainsaw, too). This thing handles smaller limbs a lot better than a chainsaw. Let’s say a long limb with, oh, a four-inch diameter falls in your yard. It’s a PITA to cut that up with a chainsaw…you’re constantly either trying to prop up the end of the limb or you’re worried about hitting the dirt with your chain. This handles that kind of job easily.
It also makes extremely neat cuts. The jaws don’t cut into the bark past the cut — it’s actually as neat, if not neater, than a chainsaw or a lopper.
Finally, it’s also very light. This is why it’s better that it’s electric. A gas-powered unit of this power would be too heavy to hold up and use in this sort of scissor action — it’s easy to use this thing held up over your head. Of course, that could have its down side if you don’t watch/know what you’re doing and get El Kabonged by a limb…
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June 21st, 2007 at 5:25 am
DtEW says:
Call us knee-jerkers, but we got one today after watching the SoCal wildfires on the news, and remembering that our incompetent brush-trimmers left all the cut brush in our backyard easement. At this point all the dead dry brush is hopelessly entangled with the new brush.
So I’m at the hardware store looking at this versus real chainsaws. It seemed like a neat idea, but it seemed limited in what you could do with it versus a real chainsaw… until my mom chimed in about pruning a tree and I suddenly realized that I could actually trust my parents to use this gadget without me breaking out in a cold sweat.
Drag the extension cord out…
This thing works. There’s no danger of kickback even when I had to thrust this into the midst of tangled brush to lop, which I had to do a lot. It’s just lop after thoughtless lop, with none of the careful consideration that I had to exercise with a real chainsaw. Sure it’s limited, but it excels at the range of work its designed to do, which covers the majority of suburban users (and that’s a HUGE market).
One thing, though… The Alligator is so fast, easy and controllable you can get lulled into sheer stupidity. Like when my extension cord was tangled in the brush I was cutting… and got sucked into the saw. It would have been hilarious if it hadn’t been so pathetic.
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August 8th, 2008 at 1:05 am
Tina says:
First, get the stupid duazy comment off this site. Secondly, I can tell almost nobody actually has used the thing to be able to make an intelligent comment about it. A neighbor recently loaned me one when I was trying to cut down dead bushes and remove tree limbs from a pine tree in my parents’ front yard. Although I use power tools more than probably 95% of women, I was still a tad nervous about using a chain saw, and to be honest, have rarely encountered the necessity for one.
This tool worked GREAT. It cut branches easily while providing safety in terms of requiring that you squeeze both handles to initiate operation. It was very maneuverable, allowing me to easily select the branches I wanted to address. And as another commenter indicated, no kick back.
I’m sure I’ll end up with a chain saw in the near term, but for many of my needs, this tool does the trick with ease and safety.
Then again, I’m not a real man. I’m just a real woman who remodels my home, handles my own repairs, doesn’t depend on anybody to assist me with moving heavy items, and performs my own landscaping. I just don’t scratch my crotch and drink beer. And I like men. Go figure.
December 3rd, 2008 at 6:51 pm