If you have ever owned a pair of those grass scissor-clippers, the kind that rotates from vertical to horizontal, I think you will like these clippers much better. I had an old pair of the rotating kind, and frankly I gave up on them a long time ago. They didn't cut much, and then just modest amounts of grass. I still have mine and don't even know exactly where they are, it's been so long since I enjoyed their frustrating use.