Opinel - N°10 Pruning Knife – Premium Large Curved Billhook Folding Horticultural Knife

Opinel - N°10 Pruning Knife – Premium Large Curved Billhook Folding Horticultural Knife

The Opinel N°10 Pruning Knife is a heavy-duty, professional-grade agricultural tool meticulously engineered for larger horticultural tasks, commercial viticulture, and intensive orchard management. Featuring a substantial 10 cm hawkbill or curved billhook blade profile bevelled on both sides, this large-scale folder delivers supreme pulling leverage and a rock-solid feel in the hand. Forged from high-performance Sandvik steel and paired with a robust French beech handle, it is an indispensable workhorse built to tackle dense vines, clean harvesting, and extensive landscape pruning with ultimate cutting efficiency.

Best For Professional viticulturists, commercial growers, orchardists, landscapers, and serious home gardeners seeking a larger, heavy-duty folding billhook knife that delivers maximum mechanical leverage for demanding pulling cuts and thick crop harvesting.

Key Features

• Grand Leverage-Optimised Curved Blade: The generous **10 cm inwardly curved hawkbill blade** is expertly bevelled on both sides to trap plant stems, vines, and small branches, enabling an incredibly powerful pull-cut motion that prevents wood from slipping away mid-strike.

• Premium Sandvik 12C27 Stainless Steel: Forged from elite Swedish **Sandvik 12C27 modified stainless steel** enriched with chrome, offering excellent resistance against corrosive plant sap and damp conditions, ensuring minimal maintenance is required.

• Exceptional Razor-Sharp Edge: Formulated with a high carbon content (at least 0.40%), the blade delivers an exceptionally crisp cutting edge that boasts superb abrasion resistance while remaining remarkably easy to touch up and sharpen in the field.

• Robust Full-Scale Beech Handle: Built with a substantial 13 cm natural French beechwood handle, contoured to fit comfortably in larger hands or gloved hands, providing a secure, non-slip grip that maximizes hand power during heavy-duty cutting.

• Patented Virobloc® Safety Ring: Outfitted with Opinel's legendary dual-action security collar, letting you quickly twist and lock the large curved blade **securely open** during intense field use or **safely closed** inside your pocket or toolbox during transit.

Specifications

• Blade Length: 10 cm

• Handle Length: 13 cm

• Overall Length (Open): 23 cm

• Size Category: Large / Professional Field Scale

• Blade Profile: Curved Billhook / Hawkbill (Double-Bevelled)

• Blade Material: Premium Sandvik 12C27 Modified 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)

• Commercial Viticulture & Grape-Picking: Seamlessly managing vineyard maintenance, clearing heavy grape canopies, and executing rapid, clean-cut grape bunch harvesting without damage to the vine bark.

• Shrub Pruning & Orchard Maintenance: Cleanly severing thick woody stems, managing unruly berry brambles, deadheading woody shrubs, clearing suckers, and executing light pruning on fruit trees.

• Nursery & Landscape Utility Work: Effortlessly cutting through heavy plastic nursery pots, slicing open compressed potting mix bags, trimming plastic landscape fabric, and slicing heavy canvas or synthetic ties.

• Harvesting Large Vegetables: Swiftly and cleanly separating thick, fibrous vegetable stems—such as pumpkins, squashes, watermelons, and large cabbages—directly from the root system.

Pro Tip: The N°10 Pruning Knife is highly celebrated among agricultural professionals because its large billhook profile concentrates all your wrist and forearm strength directly onto the inner curve, drastically reducing physical fatigue during long hours of repetitive harvesting. Because raw plant sap is highly acidic and sticky, always take a quick moment after a hard day in the orchard or vineyard to wipe the blade clean with a damp cloth, dry it thoroughly, and apply a drop of mineral oil to the pivot pin. This ensures the folding action stays buttery smooth and your heirloom horticultural tool performs flawlessly for generations!

Oversized Item Delivery Options

Since oversized items require special handling, we may need to provide a custom freight quote for your order and will contact you with an updated shipping rate.

Available options include:

✔ Delivery to your closest depot for pickup - default method
✔ Direct delivery - requires forklift on site
✔ Direct delivery with tailgate lift truck (extra fees apply)
✔ 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
• Because of the forklift requirement, delivery to the nearest depot is the default option and will be the method used unless you contact us to request otherwise.

Business Delivery:

• Business delivery is available for commercial customers only
• If you select business delivery and your products are bulky, it is your responsibility to ensure you have appropriate equipment (including forklifts) to unload products from the delivery truck
• If you select business delivery and you are not a business, you risk your product not being delivered and may incur additional fees to retrieve your order
• Business delivery customers must provide a valid business address and contact information
• Additional fees may apply for failed delivery attempts due to lack of appropriate unloading equipment

Let us know your preference, and we'll arrange the best solution for you!

Important Note on Availability & Shipping

Our warehouse serves as our office and logistics centre rather than a retail showroom. Because we ship from multiple locations and manage high-turnover stock, not all items are available for immediate pickup.

Lead Times:

• In-Stock Items: Usually ready for dispatch the same day.
• Supplier-Dependent Items: Usually take 2–8 weeks to arrive, depending on supplier availability. Products from Adloheat may take 8–12 weeks to manufacture—they are made to order in Australia by a small business, and longer lead times reflect the care put into quality.

While we strive for fast delivery, some timelines are subject to supplier availability and are beyond our control. We appreciate your patience as we source the best quality gear for your project.

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.