ARS Bypass Secateurs - 180mm & 200mm Lengths - Lightweight Precision Shears for Professional & Garden Pruning

ARS Bypass Secateurs - 180mm & 200mm Lengths - Lightweight Precision Shears for Professional & Garden Pruning

Maintaining a productive garden requires tools that offer both effortless power and surgical precision without causing hand strain. The ARS Bypass Secateurs are designed with an ergonomic profile and a specialized, wide jaw opening, allowing you to tackle thicker branches with significantly less effort than standard models. Available in two precise sizes, these lightweight, Japanese-engineered tools combine a smooth cutting action with a unique one-handed safety lock, making them the perfect solution for both professional and home gardeners who value efficiency and comfort.

Best For The home gardener or landscape professional seeking a lightweight, well-balanced bypass secateur with a wide jaw opening for comfortable, all-day pruning of stems and branches.

Key Features

• Ergonomic Wide Jaw Opening: The specialized head design features a larger jaw opening than standard models, enabling you to prune thicker branches with increased leverage and ease, maximizing your pruning capacity.

• High-Performance Absorber & Spring: Equipped with a high-quality internal spring and shock absorber that delivers a smooth cutting stroke and minimizes jarring impact, significantly reducing hand fatigue and wrist strain during repetitive tasks.

• One-Hand Safety Lock: Features a unique, innovative safety catch that is released simply by squeezing the handles, providing effortless one-handed operation and ensuring the tool is safe to holster or store in seconds.

• Precision Ground Japanese Blades: Crafted for durability and precision, these high-quality blades provide clean, surgical-grade bypass cuts that promote faster plant healing and minimize the risk of disease entry.

• Ultra-Lightweight Handling: Weighing between 180g and 200g, these shears are perfectly balanced for easy maneuvering, ensuring maximum control and comfort even during long pruning sessions in dense foliage.

Sizes Available

The FB series is available in two sizes to suit different hand profiles and cutting requirements:

• Small (FB-7): 180mm length, 180g weight, featuring a 47mm blade for high precision.

• Medium (FB-8): 200mm length, 200g weight, featuring a 54mm blade for increased leverage.

Specifications

• Brand: ARS Japan
  

• Material: High-Quality Japanese Steel Blades; Ergonomic Composite Handles

• Capacity: Designed with a wide jaw opening for thicker woody stems

• Dimensions: 180mm or 200mm Overall Length

• Other specific data: One-hand operation safety lock. Non-replaceable blades. Made in Japan.

Ideal For (Uses)

• Pruning and thinning of fruit trees, roses, and ornamental shrubs where a clean bypass cut is essential for plant health.

• General garden maintenance tasks requiring a lightweight tool to reduce wrist and hand fatigue.

• Cutting thicker woody stems that typically require a larger, heavier pair of shears.

• High-repetition pruning tasks where the speed of a one-handed safety lock improves daily productivity.

Oversized Item Delivery Options

Oversized, heavy, and structural goods ship via specialist freight. Freight is calculated at checkout from estimated packaged volumetric or physical weight. Carrier depot audits may adjust the rate — if the increase exceeds 10%, we will contact you before processing.

Available options include:

✔ Delivery to your closest depot for pickup — default method
✔ Direct delivery — requires an operational forklift on site unless Tailgate Delivery has been specifically requested and quoted (contact us — this cannot be selected at checkout)
✔ Tailgate hydraulic lift delivery — must be specifically requested; contact us for a quote (not available as a checkout option; extra fees apply; required if you do not have a forklift)
✔ Forklift loading at our warehouse (no extra charge if you arrange your own freight)
✔ Direct truck delivery (available in Victoria)

Important Notes:

• Shipping costs vary by location and method
• Any carton or consignment over 25–30kg (or over 200cm) must be palletised
• Without a specifically requested and paid Tailgate Delivery quote, palletised freight requires a forklift on site — otherwise the carrier will redirect to the nearest depot
• Bulky and oversized items cannot be delivered to a PO Box — provide a physical street address
• Failed deliveries, locked gates, unattended sites, or incorrect business/forklift declarations may incur carrier redelivery, demurrage, and restocking fees as set out in our Terms & Conditions

Business Delivery:

• Selecting a business/commercial delivery rate warrants that the address has an operational forklift and certified operator during business hours
• If the carrier cannot unload, the consignment may be redirected to a depot and secondary fees may apply
• Additional fees may apply for failed delivery attempts due to lack of appropriate unloading equipment

See our Terms & Conditions (Article 8) for full freight and delivery rules.

Important Note on Availability & Shipping

Our warehouse is a logistics hub, not a retail showroom. Listing a product online does not mean it is stored at our Thomastown warehouse — many lines ship from supplier hubs (split fulfilment may apply).

How lead times work:

• Product page ETA: The Estimated Time of Arrival (ETA) / lead-time badge shown on the product page at checkout is the agreed delivery timeframe for that order under Australian Consumer Law.
• Metro baselines: Advertised ETAs apply to standard metropolitan zones. Regional and remote addresses may take longer and may attract surcharges.
• Peak seasons: Orders in March–May, August–October, EOFY (June), Black Friday/Cyber Monday (November), and Christmas/New Year (December–January) may automatically add a 2–4 week buffer beyond the product page ETA.
• Supplier-dependent / backordered items: If stock is delayed, we will notify you with a revised ETA. You then have 7 days to accept the new timeframe or cancel for a full refund.
• Adloheat: Custom-made products from Adloheat (Pakenham, VIC) may take 4–12 weeks depending on the order.

Full fulfilment, cancellation, and freight rules are in our Terms & Conditions.

Biosecurity & Interstate Shipping Restrictions

Due to strict state biosecurity regulations, we are unable to ship some products to certain states and territories:

• Potting Mixes cannot be shipped to Western Australia (WA), the Northern Territory (NT), or Tasmania (TAS).
• Seeds cannot be shipped to Western Australia (WA).

Orders placed for these items to restricted states will be cancelled and refunded. It is the customer's responsibility to ensure that the items being ordered can lawfully be delivered to their state or territory.