I require a chipper to finish things up.

[quote=Glinda;465920]Great vid, Griff. I lust for such a nifty tool out here in my neck of the woods. :)

Some day I'm going to have the neighbors video me with my scythe*, as I whack down the ever-advancing brush along my gravel road, so ya'll can see how much fun us country folk really have.


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Twenty or more yeras ago I stayed for eight months at a language centre near Paris where one of the staff used to keep the vast expanse of garden grass short as a lawn with a scythe. It was far more restful listening to the rhythmic swish of him cutting the grass than to the angry razz of the motorised mower that most people would have used.
Thanks for bringing this memory back for me, Glinda!

by the way, I had no idea he was light in the loafers, although it does explain the pen fetish....

lumberfairy, hahahaha.


but no jokes about people who like pens. there's nothing wrong with that. seriously.

Now that I know I'm not the only one around here who is working, I can get back to work...

Very cool machine, Griff.

Slobber, envy, drool, pant, covet...:drool:

Beating antiquers to the good stuff can be hard. Nice find Glinda.

When I was a teen, we had a scythe that came from my grandfather's old property. One summer, I tried cutting *really* tall grass with it. Like 2 feet tall. It was my mission to learn how to use it. I got so I could at least get the grass to cut instead of get matted down, but it was really hard to get consistent results. A year or so later I was in Germany and saw an old farming couple in the Black Forest cutting their meadow with a scythe. It was amazing to see them go. Nice clean cuts and cuttings ended up lying in nice rows that could be forked into a haystack. Real haystacks that would shed rain. I was very impressed. Pretty slow going, but they had finished the meadow when we went past again later that day.