Knipex Carpenter's End Cutters vs. Bolt End Cutters vs. Standard End Cutters! Which is The Best? 

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I use the 61 01 200 high leverage end cutters for rural fencing - as this one tool easily cuts 2.5 mm high tensile fence wire and then will twist and cut 2.5 mm tie wire. Best tool I have had for cutting and twisting in 60 years of farming. Handle opening I hadn’t noticed - and I do use them one handed. I own three different small bolt cutters from Knipex and both end pinches you demonstrated but the high leverage 61 01 200 cutters are my choice for rural fencing.

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Thanks for taking the time to make the review.Very helpful.

You do good videos. Informative with real world applications.

Hey! . Great video. I'd say for pulling nails out, the Carpenters nippers ( pincers, cutters) Have an edge over the End cutters . The bolt cutters are the best for cutting . The it seems the End cutters are middle of the road between the other two. Oh well , to each his own...

can you do a comparison of the bolt end cutters and the knipex bolt cutters angled (71-22-200) or the regular bolt cutter please and thank you

I like the off set version best!!!

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Wowwwww.. thank you for that. Awesome dude. Super awesome

I really liked this comparison. I'd also be really interested in a show-down between the series 68 "regular" end nippers and the series 67 high leverage end nippers. In addition to a higher pivot and greater leverage, the Knipex catalog says that the high leverage end nippers have significantly harder knives than the regular end nippers (64 RC vs. 61 RC). I'd be really interested to see how those two differences affect both cutting ability and relative ease of cutting, and *very* interested to see whether the harder series 67 high leverage end nippers can cut harder fasteners (like sheet rock screws) with less edge damage.

All info . Good video thanks

Nice review

I like the offset nippers best.

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Good work on the comparison! How do the bolt end cutters compare to the twinforce and cobolt for cutting? Would be interesting to compare it to those two for the use of cutting.

Would have been good to test what surface damage each nipper does when extracting nails. But good video bro

Please, does the new Knipex model in th middle, cut nails/screws, easier than the Knipex Cobolt 200 cutters? Have you tried then side by side?

There’s another one that you didn’t test. 67 01 200. It looks like the regular ones, sort of, but they are high leverage.

I dont know the proper nodel name but the ones at 3:40 are killer for rebar. They take more skill than something like 9" klein rodman pliers as the whole grabbing surface is all cutter so you need to be much more delicate. Seriously knipex blades are no joke, i actually keep both 300 mm knipex as well as a dull pair of 200 mm (same style but harden brand) just for tying single wire quickly as it can be difficult to not have the knipex cut the wire too early leaving not enough of a knot to conpare to the actual tensile strength of the wire. And the carpenters ones have the bigger head like that for pulling nails n shit, though ive jever seen one carpenter actually use these. They just get nice stilleto hammer that havw the side puller for nails 🤷🏼‍♂️ For most intents and purposes, the basic end cutters are fantastic. But be aware they are sharp asf if you want to use them for grabbing it does take skill

so which one is the best overall?

The straight handles with big opening i think i have seen them in horse shoe nail removal and cutting the hoofs nails so to speak

It's almost like the three different tools have different purposes 🤔

I was worried that you were going to cut off the nail instead of removing it with the bolt cutters :) The 16 penny nail test was funny in retrospect. Failing a tool that couldn’t cut the nail? Naw, that’s like failing a pair of pliers for not cutting something. The edges are sharp to grip, not cut! It’s just confusing because they’re sharp enough to look like they could cut something :)

When cutting next time use the edge of the pliers 😊

Nippers are meant to bite down and bend as you squeeze to give the leverage needed to cut through bigger viagra nails. That’s why the ends are rounded so you can rock to cut or pull.

Yeah, the bolt cutting end nippers are not for pulling nails they’re for cutting. Pulling nails will ruin the blades.

When your doing the tie wire test, you liking the straight handle ones is why we use 12" knips for rebar. Theyre super thin and straight. And youre ranking for whast best at tieing kinda made me laugh ngl. Those bolt cutter ones would be terrible for actually tieing wire all day. Youd get sick of the handle and offset pretty dang quick. Plus theres a bunch of techniques for the end cutters specifically. Not to shit on your opinion but as someone who uses these pliers every day to tie steel for a living, the basic end cutters are absolutely the best of these 3 for tieing wire..theyre the only one of the 3 thats actually even for tieing. The way the head is shapes is specific for knuckling your knots. Like every angle on those pliers is designed for maximum ergonomics and efficiency for tieing wire. And do not buy the carpenters ones for tieing as theyre not for cutting. Id imagine thats whybtheyre cheaoer as well, the blade is likely not as hard as theyr not for cutting. Using rhem for tie wire would destroy the blade

Knipex 62 02 200 they are not for pulling out nails, they are designed for cutting bolt's that's why they're called bolt cutters.