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Scotts Ltd. Cotswold House, 1 Crompton Road, Groundwell, Wiltshire. SN25 5AW
Enquiries: 0344 482 9700 www.bergmantools.com
Cordless Garden Pruners Safety warnings
This appliance is not intended for use by persons (including children) with reduced physical, sensory or mental
capabilities, or lack of experience and knowledge, unless they have been given supervision or instruction
concerning use of the appliance by a person responsible for their safety.
Children should be supervised to ensure that they do not play with the appliance.
Minors should never be allowed to operate the tool; it should never be left unattended and when not in use should
be stored in a locked place out of the reach of children.
Don’t use the machine or perform battery charging operations in the rain.
Don’t leave the machine in rain or wet locations.
Keep bystanders well away from your work area.
Be careful not to catch foreign matter between the blades.
If the blades are jammed with foreign matter,
immediately switch off the machine. Then remove the foreign matter from the blades.
Take care; avoid cutting electrical wires that may be hidden.
Keep your free hand away from the cutting area. Never touch the blades.
They are very sharp and you may
cut yourself.
Be vigilant when operating to ensure that the fingers on the hand used to hold or move twigs to be pruned are not
exposed to the cutting blade.
Don’t force the machine to make it cut. You could slip and injure yourself or cut something else unintentionally.
Always check the blades carefully before operation.
Handle the blades with extreme care to prevent cuts or injury from the blades.
Remove the battery after each use and before attempting to perform inspection or maintenance.
Always wear protective gloves when using, adjusting or cleaning the machine.
Only use the machine for its intended use (see “Intended Use”).
Information about the battery
1. The battery pack supplied with your cordless tool is not charged. The battery pack has to be charged before you
use the tool for the first time.
2. For optimum battery performance avoid low discharge cycles. Charge the battery pack frequently or after every
use.
3. Store the battery pack in a cool place, ideally at 15°C and charged to at least 40%.
4. Lithium-ion batteries are subject to a natural ageing process. The battery pack must be replaced at the latest when
its capacity falls to just 80% of its capacity when new. Weakened cells in an aged battery pack are no longer
capable of meeting the high power requirements and therefore pose a safety risk.
5. Do not throw battery packs into an open fire. There is a risk of explosion!
6. Do not ignite the battery pack or expose it to fire.
7.
Do not exhaustively discharge batteries.
Exhaustive discharge will damage the battery cells. The most common
cause of exhaustive discharge is lengthy storage or non-use of partly discharged batteries. Stop working as soon
as the performance of the battery falls noticeably or the electronic protection system triggers. Place the battery
pack in storage only after it has been fully charged.
8.
Protect batteries and the tool from overloads.
Overloads will quickly result in overheating and cell damage
inside the battery housing without this overheating actually being apparent externally.
9. Avoid damage and shocks. Replace batteries which have been dropped from a height of more than one meter or
which have been exposed to violent shocks without delay, even if the housing of the battery pack appears to be
undamaged. The battery cells inside the battery may have suffered serious damage. In this respect, please also
read the waste disposal information.
10. If the battery pack suffers overloading and overheating, the integrated protective cut-off will switch off the
equipment for safety reasons.
Important:
Do not press the ON/OFF switch any more if the protective cut-off has
actuated. This may damage the battery pack.
11. Use appliances only with specifically designated battery packs. Use of any other battery packs may create a risk of
injury and fire.
