Opinel - N°08 Pruning Knife – Premium Curved Billhook Folding Horticultural Knife

Opinel - N°08 Pruning Knife – Premium Curved Billhook Folding Horticultural Knife

The Opinel N°08 Pruning Knife is a highly specialized, professional-grade horticultural tool expertly engineered for gardeners, orchardists, and viticulturists. Featuring a distinctive hawkbill or curved billhook blade profile, this pocket-sized workhorse is designed to deliver maximum pulling leverage and clean, precise cuts without slipping off stems or branches. Combining legendary French alpine toolmaking heritage with heavy-duty mechanical reliability, it is an indispensable folding companion for intricate grafting, clean harvesting, and routine pruning tasks out in the field.

Best For Gardening enthusiasts, commercial growers, landscapers, and florists seeking an ultra-sharp, ergonomically balanced pocket billhook knife that makes swift work of routine plant maintenance, harvesting, and clean-cut propagation.

Key Features

• Leverage-Optimised Curved Blade: The **8.5 cm hawked billhook tip** curves inward to perfectly scoop and trap plant stems, allowing you to slice with a smooth pull motion that prevents branches from slipping away mid-cut.

• High-Performance Stainless Steel: Forged from premium high-carbon stainless steel, delivering professional-grade edge retention and superb mechanical resistance while protecting the tool against rust when exposed to raw plant sap, moisture, and soil.

• Traditional Ergonomic Handle: Crafted from high-quality, durable French beechwood, contoured to fill the hand comfortably and provide a secure, non-slip grip that dramatically reduces hand fatigue during extended pruning sessions.

• Patented Virobloc® Safety Ring: Equipped with Opinel's legendary dual-action locking collar, allowing you to lock the curved blade **securely open** during tough pulling cuts or **safely closed** to ensure total peace of mind inside a pocket or tool pouch.

• Authentic French Heritage: Proudly designed, sourced, and manufactured in France, carrying forward over 130 years of elite toolmaking expertise and premium artisan craftsmanship.

Specifications

• Blade Length: 8.5 cm

• Total Weight: 100 g (Robust, heavy-duty build)

• Size Category: Medium / Compact Field Pocket Scale

• Blade Profile: Curved Billhook / Hawkbill / Grafting Style

• Blade Material: Premium High-Carbon Stainless Steel

• Handle Material: Traditional French Beechwood

• Locking Mechanism: Patented Virobloc® Safety Ring (Locks open and closed)

• Available Colour: Beech

• Packaging Options: No Packaging (Bulk/Loose) or Secure Retail Blister Pack

• Manufacturing Location: Made in France

Ideal For (Uses)

• Precision Grafting & Propagation: Executing ultra-clean, flush incisions on rootstocks and scions, minimizing tissue damage to encourage successful plant healing and growth.

• Swift Pruning & Trimming: Managing small woody stems, clearing suckers from tomato plants, trimming back berry canes, deadheading perennial shrubs, and tidying up vines.

• Clean Crop Harvesting: Cleanly severing thick vegetable stems—such as pumpkins, eggplants, capsicums, and grape bunches—without tearing the plant's delicate outer bark.

• General Field & Utility Work: A handy nursery companion for slicing cleanly through tough plastic grow bags, opening compressed soil bags, and cutting heavy garden twine or binder twine.

Pro Tip: The N°08 Pruning Knife is highly celebrated because its curved geometry concentrates all your pulling power directly onto the cutting edge, requiring much less physical effort than a standard straight-edge pocket knife. Plant sap can be incredibly sticky and acidic; to keep your tool operating like new, simply wipe the blade clean with a damp cloth after a hard day in the garden to remove organic residue, dry thoroughly, and apply a light drop of mineral oil to the folding pivot. Avoid leaving the wood handle soaking in wet soil or water buckets to ensure the folding mechanism always remains silky smooth!

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.