Name: Susan Virginia (Zone 8a) God is the only thing that matters.
That does it, I'm getting one!!
I use Loppers on woody stalks up to 1 1/4 inch wide, works good. Some people call them 'Root Cutters' but to me it is just a pruner, whether stalks or roots it all gets pruned.
Consider the lilies of the field, how they grow; they toil not, neither do they spin: And yet I say unto you, That even Solomon in all his glory was not arrayed like one of these. Mat.6:28-29