You may think it strange that there is a need for left handed tools. You may be asking .... "why can't you simply use a normal pair of scissors or secateur?" ..... well then, you must be right handed !

Left handed garden tools

The action incurred between your thumb and the remaining fingures is not a straight cutting action, but a shear. This means that you pull the two crossing blades together as you squeeze. The cutting edges of a right handed tool open up when used in the left hand thus causing them to become inefficient. Left handed tools are designed to do the job in the opposite direction, the blades are drawn together and a proper shearing action takes place. This is particularly true for cross cut secateurs, pruners and scissors.

I shall continue my search for other left handed tools and other left handed products and will endeavour to add them to the shop as I secure them. In the meantime, I offer this high quality but limited range including the world famous Felco left handed pruners. You can find here on my site left handed Felco pruners, other left handed pruners and scissors for left handed people.

Please come back and check from time to time to see how the list of left handed garden tools expands. Left handed anything for left handed people.

For UK customers only

If you live in the UK - you can buy left handed garden tools from my affiliate site as below - brackets ( ) indicate number of other garden tools available per category :

so there are plenty to choose from including :

Left Handed

Felco Model 9 Classic Left Handed Bypass Secateurs, Felco Model 10 Professional Left Handed Bypass Secateurs With Rotating Handle, Faithfull Slaters Axe - Left Hand, Zenith Taper Spindle Left Hand 16mm, Fiskars 9950R33 Gp Scissors - Left Hand, Sealey Brake Wind Back Tool Left Hand, Kunys Ap450 All Weather Component Pouch Lefthand - as well as :

Other Garden Tools

Knives (20) Shredders (18) Grass trimmers (102) Lawn mowers (81) Rakes (51) Axes (61) Bulb planters (3) Edging irons (15) Loppers (57) Spades (41) Hand Forks/Trowels (76) Lawn scarifiers (18) Scythes& hooks (6) Tree pruners (9) Chain saws (74) Hedge trimmers (9) Log splitters (3) Secateurs (99) Watering hose & accessories (50) Garden shears (5) Shredders (9) Spreaders (3) all from Wilkinson Sword, Wolf, Spear & Jackson and other top makes.

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Being left handed

One out of every ten people walking down the street is left-handed. Everywhere they go, left-handed people come across tools that were designed for right handed persons.

From scissors to camcorders to screw drivers to hockey sticks to baseball gloves, lefties learn early on that they need to develop skills to live in a world designed for right handed people.

If you are a right-handed person, try this experiment sometime: Grab a scissors with your left hand and try cutting a piece of paper. Don't be surprised if the experience feels extremely awkward. Thankfully, there are companies that make left-handed scissors, left handed camcorders, and other left-handed tools. But often times left-handed persons find themselves in a situation where they have no choice but to use something designed for right-handed persons.

In ages past, society was not sympathetic to left-handed persons. Young students who preferred using their left hand to write were punished for doing so. Some of these students eventually learned to write with their right hand, but only after enormous effort.

These days parents and teachers are far more accepting and understanding. In almost every school in the world, students who are left handed are allowed to continue using their left hand to write.

Medical researchers have searched long and hard for what causes people to be left handed or right handed. The researchers have concluded that left handed people are left handed for the same reason as brown eyed people have brown eyes. It's just one of those things that shows up in one out of every ten people.

A really interesting question is whether there is any connection between left handed people and creative genius. Some of history's most creative minds have been left-handed.

In the category of art, both Leonardo da Vinci and Michelangelo were left handed. In the category of music, Ludwig van Beethoven was left handed. In the field of science and invention, you find Benjamin Franklin, Isaac Newton, and Albert Einstein and in the field of motion pictures, Charlie Chaplin.

Bobby Fisher, the modern chess genius, is left handed. So too are musical geniuses Bob Dylan, Paul McCartney, and Wynton Marsalis.

Each of the these persons had a mind so exceptional as to be head and shoulders above anyone else in their field. So even though it may be more difficult for a left handed person to live in a right handed world, lefties can know that they are in good company. Beethoven and Einstein had it tough, too.

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