Using a scythe
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Well you are hacking.. Hacking is wrong, it's a smooth moving motion of your body you have to be moving forward with the scythe not along side with the grass. If you want a nice cut and short you have to do it smooth and easy, it shouldn't stress your body that much to do it..
3 years ago 3
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This is a hell of a lot better than using a weedeater. If we used a scythe instead of a weedeater our yard'd be done three times as fast.
3 years ago 2
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Why do you think Marugg snath is bad ? Are you referring to the straight or bent one ? Are you referring to the grips ?
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Glad you are using a scythe, now that is old time, but good time.
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Wie mäht er denn bitteschön sein Gras???
Nicht HACKEN, sondern SCHNEIDEN lol
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looks fun
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and its a better exercise :P
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or you could buy a weedeater
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Neckiren, I am a carpenter, woodworker, I shave with a straight razor, and I scythe. Sharpening a scythe, unlike a tool for wood, or shaving, is very forgiving on the angle of sharpening. Partcularly because you peen the metal to a paper thin edge prior to sharpening. You don't know what you are talking about.
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Marugg sells crap snaths. If you want to have a miserable experience, buy one. A snath has to fit YOU well. By the way the man in this video appears not to have a clue about scything. Neckiren, scythes and mowing are fairly forgiving about sharpening angle, perhaps you should try scything before you comment. If you all want to see someone who knows how to scythe, watch something submitted by kaivido. His 14 year-old sister could teach these daft fools everything they never knew.
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OMG that is not how you sharpen some thing with a stone. you need to keep the angle of the stone to the blade to the stone consistent or it will not sharpen very well at all.
neckiren 4 years ago
Thanks for the advice, I would like to be better at this. Despite the criticism I am successfully using a sythe for the last number of years cutting under about a mile of electric fence and a 5 acre field badly affected with rushes. I used to use a petrol strimmers with cord or a metal blade but the sythe is faster and less work. I have a short video of a more experienced user which I must add.
txy34b 4 years ago