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

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.