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Building a rack of loose hay.

Trimming the grass around a garden

Is this a joke?? Not quite. The clip is meant as a satire -- challenging to the modern "brush blade mentality". Thus we used a very light blade (370 gm. at 65 cm., made by FALCI of Italy) and a homemade willow snath weighi...

Making hay with hand tools within one day. Part 2 coming soon.

Consolidating rows of dry, loose hay into piles -- in a manner that most people haven't seen. This demo shows part of late hay harvest on a pasture which was grazed several times that season. The leftovers, though sparse a...

How an uncommon hand tool from the past can help make it happen today.

Please see the (QuickTime) edition with audio at:

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The YouTube cops silenced the whole thing because we used a few seconds of Bob Dylan's music.

Short scenes demonstrating the versatility of a good scythe in diverse conditions--from "lawn" and field cutting to an "obstacle course" requiring precision mowing techniques. No audio--it got lost in the editing process.

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