Ditch the strimmer and have some fun

I recently decided to cut down on fuel usage wherever possible, but aside from the usual suspects of car/tractor/quad bike usage, I've almost completely stopped using the strimmer.
I guess I was getting a bit sick of having to go out with ear defenders, safety glasses etc and being surrounded by a cloud of fumes and noise.

Now we had a couple of old scythes here which my grandfather and father had used, but as usual I went out in search of something better. So I am now the proud owner of an Austrian scythe from Simon Fairlie of The Scythe Shop who imports them into the UK.

I was a little sceptical as to whether the scythe could replicate the workrate of the strimmer, so I had a bit of a 'strim off' with my mate Adrian. We have a farm track which needed the sides tidying up so I set off down one side and Ade down the other. I finished my side without even breaking into a sweat, and was truly taken aback by the volume of grass and weeds that this baby could take down! Ade however was still plodding along with the strimmer - at about half the rate..

Anyway, being a bit of a geek I had to dig further into the interweb on all things scythey - and of course I discovered a whole world of scythe geeks...enjoy the silence..
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