RYOBI rechargeable pruning shears BSH-120 import JPN

WOW - is this the most helpful tool in my arsenal. Yes! Carpal tunnel wrist and elbow surgery meant the hand was better but still difficult to do a lot of pruning and cutting without some numbness or pain. But this is a piece of cake to use. Cuts larger branches or larger sized objects by doing smaller cuts til you are done. Nice light on the front when you use it and has a protective blade cover. Yes, directions are not in English but it ain't rocket science - plug it in to charge and the light in the handle glows red. It glows green when it's fully charged. Every hour or so of use, plug it in and charge it. Well worth waiting for from overseas. No idea why Home Depot doesn't sell it in the US. My favorite yard tool ever! UPDATE- December 2016 - Broke my last blade and couldn't find a replacement blade for a Ryobi shear. I noticed the Teho Company sells a very similar (identical!) rechargeable shear (for less than $40). Anyway, I called them at the number below and ordered a replacement blade hoping it would work. It's identical! It was $5 plus S&H $15. I should have ordered 2 blades. The listed phone number for Teho customer service: 1-877-769-8346. I have no affiliation with any body mentioned here - just a consumer. Still love my shears!

1. Forget about the Japanese language manual, just throw it away. 2. Looks like Teho replacement blades are the way to go for $5 each $15S&H, I think that I will order a dozen extras 3. At sometime in the future, the lithium battery should die. Looks to me that there are no replacements available, so you take that risk 4. Works fantastic. 5. I can cut any fresh branch that I can fit in between the jaws. For a big branch, I have had to make a slice, then followed by another slice...no prob. 6. This tool saves your hand muscles from arthritis later in life 7. Pricey but well worth the savings in "Gold" 8. I highly recommend it 9. The compact fit is easy to manipulate. 10. There is a squeeze trigger behind the real trigger, it operates the two lights and it is a "safety". Then when you pull the trigger with the safety pulled, the jaws close. Makes an annoying clicking sound each time you squeeze the safety. You can keep the safety squeeze and do multiple trigger pulls. All in all, it is for child safety. Good feature. Cheery bright colors will make your day!

These clippers are so easy to use. They last quite a while and have given me much more freedom in my garden. They were a good value, considering how difficult they were to find! I would recommend these clippers. The only thing that I found as a drawback with the lack of an instruction book in English.

It worked fine initially, but would not charge after a few months of very light use. The return window had closed so I called Ryobi customer service, as they have a very generous warranty on their products. Customer service was great, but the bottom line is this is NOT a product that is manufactured or sold by Ryobi and the seller is NOT an authorized Ryobi dealer.

This is a handy tool if you have hands that suffer from pins and needles on a regular basis. The battery lasts a long time and it cuts through reasonable thicknesses of branches. I use them to cut my blackberry vines and it cuts through all but the very thickest ones. It fits comfortable in the hands and has a light to highlight where the cut needs to be made when you're working at sunset, which is one of my favorite times to work in the yard. Even though the instruction manuals are in Japanese, it's a pretty straightforward tool to use. The clipper end opens up fairly easy to change out the blades if you have replacement blades. I can recommend these shears!

The pruning shears itself seems to work very well. The problem is that the manual is only in Japanese. If you go to the website listed on the box, it is a Japanese site. You can download a manual, but it is the same Japanese language manual. You cannot contact them through their website. Ryobi in the US said they can't do anything because it was sold through Amazon as a Japanese import. A person can figure out how to work the shears, but it would be nice to know details about charging, changing blades, etc.. I did download the Japanese manual from their website as a .pdf, saved it and went to "translate.google.com" and translated it to English. The translation, of course leaves a lot to be desired, but it does suffice in most cases using the illustrations in the manual that came with the shears and the English translated .pdf.

HI-It is well made, nice size, well balance to hold. fast charging, nice to have a light on the front, like the protected coving on the blades, like the charging light that tells you when it is fully charge and the like on charging plug. The only thing that could make it better is a bigger battery to make it cut faster and easier. It last a long time depending on what you are cutting. I tried some of the products in the picture to cut and PCV took a few times to cut through,a bigger battery would make it faster. Over a great product will keep for cutting small tree branches, etc. If they come out with one with double or more battery power, at the same price I would buy it. Great product over all for the price. PS they need to send product info sheet in English.

Excellent product: reliable, many cuts per charge, quick to recharge and comfortable to use. I can make a single cut faster by hand, but get more done in 10 min using this tool because I don’t have to pause when my grip gets tired. I use it constantly as I planned in the orchards, and find it useful in dozens of other situations in gardens and prairie situations. The movable blade snaps out to sharpen or replace. ****** * To remove the blade, flip the protective cover so it surrounds the blades. The two legs of the movable blade can be pulled forward off the hub the legs surround. * To insert the blade place its tip into the protective cover. The prongs of the blade then straddle a small hub or spool, allowing you to push the blade in toward the handle. It will fit loosely. * Flip the protective cover back toward the handle, so the tool is ready to use. Depress the two “on” switches to move the blade and lock it in place.

So my Wifey has some problems with her hands, but we’ve got lots of work to do in the garden and she loves it - so these seemed like a good idea. Unfortunately, even with the UK adapter to allow us to charge it, they didn’t work so well- and I think this is actually our fault. When you try to cut something that’s a bit too thick, you can force it, jump on it, kick it but eventually it’ll cut - and with long handled loppers or the extending ones, you can do exactly that. Unfortunately with these, you can’t. It’ll either cut or it doesn’t. Secretly, as well, by the time you’ve got through the manual and all the little warning stickers you do think that these are the most deadly gardening tool on earth and - disappointingly - they’re not.

this we have had ours for several years. This is a well made tool. Battery still holds charge allowing us to use it for at least an hour of steady pruning. Often doing larger diameter limbs that it was meant to cut. makes tedious pruning much easier and quicker. An excellent pruner and recommend it to all.

3年前に購入した。今でも日常的に小枝などの剪定に支障なく使っている。手入れなどは特にしないが、汚れた時だけ拭き取る程度だ。もし壊れた場合は同じ物を購入したい。

便利。でも少し重たいの。 なので星は4つね。

A very good quality products (as one would expect from Ryobi) but let down by being a Japanese import (110 volts) and needing the additional expense of a voltage converter which drops it 2 stars. Otherwise, works well and is a boon to my wife with arthritic hands (light to use too)