Re: Bolt Cutters -- Lighter Than Listed?
The weight is a function of what they're used for and who's using them - long handles gives you more leverage for the same strength of the user, but more weight and awkwardness. Shorter cutters take more strength to cut the same thing, but are lighter and much easier to operate in small spaces.
How "heavy duty" they are is a separate axis - thicker handles and bigger head, more expensive and harder alloys to stand up to being used on harder materials (such as the chrome moly blend used on the linked bolt cutters).
900mm x 12mm doesn't strike me as "somewhat big". Long handled, certainly, but that 12mm (1/2 inch) leaps out at me as being weirdly delicate. I'm going to assume that's the thickness and not the height, but that's still kinda slimline.
The linked cutters are only 762mm long, but 178mm high and 50mm thick - four times as thick.
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