50's Vintage - Page 2

Griff · 06-30-2008, 12:21 PM

I require a chipper to finish things up.

limey · 06-30-2008, 01:19 PM

[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.

...

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!

monster · 06-30-2008, 01:59 PM

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Originally Posted by Griff

The lumber fairy

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

lookout123 · 06-30-2008, 02:07 PM

lumberfairy, hahahaha.

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

footfootfoot · 06-30-2008, 02:36 PM

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.

xoxoxoBruce · 06-30-2008, 11:03 PM

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Originally Posted by Glinda

* Couple years back, I saw a Craigslist ad announcing a cleaning out of an old farmhouse/barn - apparently grammy and grampy had finally passed on and the kids weren't interested in cleaning out 60 years of OLD stuff. All free - first come first served. Man did I score. Came home with several old scythes, trowels and shovels, antique shoe-making tools and lasts, metal buckets and standing sinks/tubs, several handmade tool boxes filled with square-head nails, hasps, and etc., six or eight bitchen antique oil cans, a motorized wring washer from the '20s, a treadle sewing machine, and so much more. Awesome!

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

Griff · 07-01-2008, 07:24 AM

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

glatt · 07-01-2008, 07:35 AM

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.

06-30-2008, 12:21 PM	#16
Griff still says videotape Join Date: Feb 2001 Posts: 26,813	I require a chipper to finish things up. __________________ If you would only recognize that life is hard, things would be so much easier for you. - Louis D. Brandeis

06-30-2008, 01:19 PM	#17
limey Encroaching on your decrees Join Date: Feb 2004 Location: An island within the south-west coast of Scotland Posts: 7,016	[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. ... 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! __________________ Living it up on the edge ... of civilisation, within the southwest coast of

06-30-2008, 02:07 PM	#19
lookout123 changed his status to single Join Date: Apr 2004 Location: Right behind you. No, the other side. Posts: 10,308	lumberfairy, hahahaha. but no jokes about people who like pens. there's nothing wrong with that. seriously. __________________ Getting knocked down is no sin, it's not getting back up that's the sin

06-30-2008, 02:36 PM	#20
footfootfoot To shreds, you say? Join Date: Aug 2004 Location: in the house and on the street-how many, many feet we meet! Posts: 18,449	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. __________________ The internet is a hateful stew of vomit you can never take completely seriously. - Her Fobs

07-01-2008, 07:24 AM	#22
Griff still says videotape Join Date: Feb 2001 Posts: 26,813	Beating antiquers to the good stuff can be hard. Nice find Glinda. __________________ If you would only recognize that life is hard, things would be so much easier for you. - Louis D. Brandeis

07-01-2008, 07:35 AM	#23
glatt ™ Join Date: Jul 2003 Location: Arlington, VA Posts: 27,717	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.

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