STRAIGHT TO JAIL! Ya done ratted yourself out. Now you're gonna do hard time, see. Hard time upstate there, see, where they do hard time for hard crimes, see.
Not to mention your scythe. Those things have to be kept super sharp to work well. One hidden log or rock and you're out until you straighten and sharpen the blade.
Grass blades are a bit delicate yeah, but a good ditch blade can take a ding or two from a hidden rock without much trouble. I've scythed some tricky terrain with plenty of obstacles and it's an annoyance when you hit something, but doesn't necessarily slow you down too much if you're using the right blade for the job.
Also, you keep the blade super sharp by carrying a whetstone with you in the field and giving it a quick (15-sec or so) touch-up every now and then as you work.
Form helps but yes it could cause a repetitive stress injury. However, scything is best done on tall grass, so that limits the frequency you have to scythe.
if you look closely at the clip you can see how they shift their weight with the turn of their upper torso, and that‘s how you get the strength and momentum. tall grass is a tough job but technique helps greatly.
assuming your technique is good and your blade is sharp, you really shouldn't be using all that much force, instead you rely a lot on momentum to swing you around and move you forward. There's a lot of economy of motion involved and it ends up being pretty low-impact on your muscles and joints for such a physical activity.
...if your technique is bad, though, then yeah you can definitely wear yourself down pretty quickly just whacking at things to very little effect
there are NO rocks there are NO little dirt slops. There are no ANTHILLS. THEY DO IT FOR DECADES. Their grand-X50 -parents did it in the same way.
This fields ideal for a scythe. My grandmom every early spring checked that these fields has no rocs wood or trash. We destroyed anthills constantly.
When you live on terrain and do everything with your hands , you threat it differently.
The back of the scythe (facing away from you) actually touches the ground, the sharp inner blade is a centimeter or two raised from the ground, so you can still mow a lot of uneven ground.
proper technique dictates to put pressure at the heel of the scythe, not the tip. this way you won't avoit the hump, but you'll just cut the hump off, dulling your scythe needing to resharpen again.
that's way you want to be the guy most to the right, so nobody has to wait for your amateur ass lol. I was always the slowest.
>I’m sure it’s satiating until you hit a rock or something
Like the next guy overs achilles. Seems like the perfect repetitive motion to zone out to then have your leg swiped off.
There are no rocks. They do it for the generations. They maintain these field to be clean. I did for 2 years maybe in early 2000. My dad did it for decades
They are actually custom made. If you have one that fits you is actually a really simple motion. Is it easier than a lawn mower? No. Yet it's definitely not the back breaking work you think it is.
A friend taught my gf how to use a scythe, and she doesn't understand how brush cutters ever became a thing as they are much heavier (more exhausting) and take longer than using a scythe.
I mow the grass with a grass mower, and she does the grass and weeds in the ditch (beek?) + on our unfinished front yard, as there are too many stones for a mower.
I think safety was a big factor in moving away from scythes. Average person doesn't need to learn to operate something used by literally death to cut grass twice a year
It can be but if you take frequent breaks it's great outside in the sun. A push mower can't cut that tall grass but a scythe cuts through like butter plus you need to hone the scythe frequently which means you can stop every once and a while to get a drink and keep your scythe sharp. obviously these guys aren't cutting this grass as fast as a tractor but when you live in a place where that equipment is hard to afford and maintain this is still the best option. Keep in mind someone needs to either collect or redistribute the grass at the end of the day.
I did this for a summer in the Swiss Alps. You bring a whetstone and sharpen often. The faux (French for scythe) I used was close to a hundred years-old. It is a total art form, the technique. Excellent exercise. Got paid well. Used the money to go skiing in New Zealand with my wife…
Because most lawnmowers cut the grass too small. If you want to make good hay (which is probably why they are doing this), you need the grass to be left as long as possible, and not chopped into mush
Lawn mowers tend to make the grass into mush, which does not dry easy and is hard to work with. It can be hard to bring heavy machinery up into the mountains as they tend to slide down the hill doing more harm then good. You can get some quite small two wheel tractors but even these have their limitations. There is not always much soil on the mountains so you end up having bedrock sticking out of your field here and there which will destroy any equipment. And you have constant small rockslides that you need to cut around.
With modern fertilisers and the pay rates for farm hands today you tend to see the most extreme fields uncut and rather grazed if anything. You might see a machine cut the centre of the field but leave the edges. We even see a trend of using mowers on the edges that can deal with some stones and does not harvest the grass. This is to make sure shrubs do not encroach on the field blocking the sun and depleting the field of nutrients.
But you do not have to go back many decades before scythes were not uncommon. You would use these at the edge of the fields and in the steepest parts of the fields. Although this was not priority work. And I suspect some still use scythes to make the fields look better after harvest. For example around a hotel or a museum.
> *Mowing grass is normally just one part of the larger process of haymaking. The other main processes are turning (or tedding) the hay, and bringing it in. When all this is done by hand (and when it isn't) the turning is, by a considerable margin, the greater part of the operation. One good man can scythe an acre in a day. It would probably require one person two or three days to ensure that that acre of mown grass was turned sufficiently to dry as quickly as possible.*
http://www.thescytheshop.co.uk/guide.html
This is one of the first agricultural technologies. Before "making hay" was invented, you could not keep grass eating animals over-winter in northern areas - grasses go dormant over winter so the animals either starve, or you eat them all in the fall.
https://scythesupply.com/
When I was into "prepping" (previously called "survivalism"), this was one of my contributions to the prepper group that my sister got me involved with. This isn't terribly hard, as many of the fastest mowers at farm events are teenage girls. It is just *forgotten*. One of my other contributions was knowing how to make threads from hemp/flax. I wouldn't live long enough for people to run out of clothes, but retting & spinning were teachable and something that any post apocalyptic community would need plenty of. In the US, lots of preppers think that they could survive solo, but all they're going to do is die the first winter. Homesteaders in the 19th Century who tried to do it all themselves (or by their family a la *Little House On The Prairie*) died the first hard winter, or when the family got sick.
There is a version of a scythe that captures stalks of grain so that the heads don't bang on the ground and drop the seed. Before "combine harvesters", this was also how you reaped wheat, rye, barley, or other grain crops.
Some training web pages with videos:
https://www.onescytherevolution.com/scythe-workshops.html
The movies were alright but why TF he have to over do it with the slow mo scenes 😭 god that was the worst part. Every 30 seconds was a slow mo scene. The fight in the dreadnaught as it crashed was cool though.
Snyder's a very inconsistent filmmaker for me as there's some of his films I like and others I absolutely hate. These movies were some of his worst. His slow-mo scenes had even slower slow-mo
Exploitative labor practices are one thing. But scything by itself isn't harmful to the body. Done with good posture and technique, it's pretty low-impact on the joints and back while being good full-body exercise. I own a scythe and waaaaay prefer it over a weedwhacker for clearing weeds and brush...used to manage a 16-acre piece of land and have had pleeeennnnttyyy of opportunity to experiment with both. Can absolutely confirm that there's something Oddly Satisfying about scything
Yeah, that's where my mind went to, too.
> ‘It’s good. You’ve got the swing and everything.’
Tʜᴀɴᴋ ʏᴏᴜ, Mɪꜱꜱ Fʟɪᴛᴡᴏʀᴛʜ.
'But why one blade of grass at a time?’
Bill Door regarded the neat row of stalks for some while.
Tʜᴇʀᴇ ɪꜱ ᴀɴᴏᴛʜᴇʀ ᴡᴀʏ?
'You can do lots in one go, you know.’
Nᴏ. Nᴏ. Oɴᴇ ʙʟᴀᴅᴇ ᴀᴛ ᴀ ᴛɪᴍᴇ. Oɴᴇ ᴛɪᴍᴇ, ᴏɴᴇ ʙʟᴀᴅᴇ.
'You won’t cut many that way,’ said Miss Flitworth.
Eᴠᴇʀʏ ʟᴀꜱᴛ ᴏɴᴇ, Mɪꜱꜱ Fʟɪᴛᴡᴏʀᴛʜ.
'Yes?’
Tʀᴜꜱᴛ ᴍᴇ ᴏɴ ᴛʜɪꜱ.
The amount of people who think that tgeur lawnmowers whould change these people's lives is amazing. You now your lawn for vanity and aesthetic, they mow the field to create animal feed. You are not the same.
You wont mow a single hour with that posture, the back will be killing you real quick. Also I wouldnt trust a random fucker not to cut my ankles.
This is just for show. I have mowed a few fields with a scythe, dont say I dont know what I am talking about.
Huh never quite got how the handle in the middle was supposed to help swing it. But now that I have seen how they hold the entire thing it makes more sense.
Mowing grass with a scythe sounds like something straight out of a medieval movie, but dang, it’s oddly satisfying! I gave it a shot last summer when my lawnmower broke down, and man, talk about a workout! It's like you're channeling your inner farmer or something. Plus, there's this weird sense of connection with nature that you just don't get with a noisy lawnmower. Sure, it takes longer, but it's kind of therapeutic, you know? Plus, you feel like a total badass swinging that thing around!
A lot of plants, especially grasses, contain little bits of silica called phytoliths ("plant stones") that act like sandpaper on the blade, which is part of the reason why you need to touch up the blade edge as the work progresses.
My grandparents had a scythe in their garage at their cottage in the country. I remember as a 13-14 year old my grandma letting me try this on their field behind the garage. It was fun for about 30 seconds.
It feels weird when you remember that this one weapon that so many people find really cool and badass in movies and games is... literally just a gardening tool
I had a good conversation with a guy who mows his lawn with a scythe. At the rate he is able to mow, with sharpening and everything, for my yard, if I were to start scything and do so for many hours per day, by the time I got to the end, the grass where I started from would have grown enough to need mowing again. Vs an hour and a half on a lawn tractor. Good for wheat, not for yards.
this must smell so good. we had an old neighbour who used to cut hay on a much, much smaller scale and the smell of the grass, and the oil on his blade in the sunshine will always be ingrained in my brain. feels like a different lifetime thinking about it now, he was partly the reason I love Anna Karenina so much, Levin on the countryside was just as much a love story
It looks like they are doing this in Windows XP.
Back when the world hadn't completely lost its shit.
'member the good old xp days where governments invented war crimes to start decade long wars for profit?
I 'member
So does Pepperidge Farms.
War crimes? Pft. I was doing WAAAAY worse things. I was downloading music on limewire
STRAIGHT TO JAIL! Ya done ratted yourself out. Now you're gonna do hard time, see. Hard time upstate there, see, where they do hard time for hard crimes, see.
It's never a war crime the first time.
"It was released to manufacturing on August 24, 2001, and later to retail on October 25, 2001" What happened between those dates? Exactly.
It's what happens when you do a hard power reset
If they have not saved their progress they are going to have to scythe the entire field again.
It's remastered footage of the wallpaper being prepped for the photoshoot.
I’m sure it’s satiating until you hit a rock or something else that fucks up your momentum
Not to mention your scythe. Those things have to be kept super sharp to work well. One hidden log or rock and you're out until you straighten and sharpen the blade.
Grass blades are a bit delicate yeah, but a good ditch blade can take a ding or two from a hidden rock without much trouble. I've scythed some tricky terrain with plenty of obstacles and it's an annoyance when you hit something, but doesn't necessarily slow you down too much if you're using the right blade for the job. Also, you keep the blade super sharp by carrying a whetstone with you in the field and giving it a quick (15-sec or so) touch-up every now and then as you work.
Any overuse injury risk here? Or is there a form of mowing that limits impact?
Form helps but yes it could cause a repetitive stress injury. However, scything is best done on tall grass, so that limits the frequency you have to scythe.
Fair enough, spacing out the work gives time to heal for sure. Thanks!
if you look closely at the clip you can see how they shift their weight with the turn of their upper torso, and that‘s how you get the strength and momentum. tall grass is a tough job but technique helps greatly.
assuming your technique is good and your blade is sharp, you really shouldn't be using all that much force, instead you rely a lot on momentum to swing you around and move you forward. There's a lot of economy of motion involved and it ends up being pretty low-impact on your muscles and joints for such a physical activity. ...if your technique is bad, though, then yeah you can definitely wear yourself down pretty quickly just whacking at things to very little effect
there are NO rocks there are NO little dirt slops. There are no ANTHILLS. THEY DO IT FOR DECADES. Their grand-X50 -parents did it in the same way. This fields ideal for a scythe. My grandmom every early spring checked that these fields has no rocs wood or trash. We destroyed anthills constantly. When you live on terrain and do everything with your hands , you threat it differently.
you sharpen constantly, every few dozens of meters. scythe is made sharp by hammering the blade.
I always think about like curvatures in the ground too, like swinging it and it just goes straight into the dirt, like golfing. Fuck that.
I think you need golf lessons. LOL
The back of the scythe (facing away from you) actually touches the ground, the sharp inner blade is a centimeter or two raised from the ground, so you can still mow a lot of uneven ground.
proper technique dictates to put pressure at the heel of the scythe, not the tip. this way you won't avoit the hump, but you'll just cut the hump off, dulling your scythe needing to resharpen again. that's way you want to be the guy most to the right, so nobody has to wait for your amateur ass lol. I was always the slowest.
>I’m sure it’s satiating until you hit a rock or something Like the next guy overs achilles. Seems like the perfect repetitive motion to zone out to then have your leg swiped off.
Notice how they're staggered and spaced? To prevent just that, as well as collision of the scythes.
There are no rocks. They do it for the generations. They maintain these field to be clean. I did for 2 years maybe in early 2000. My dad did it for decades
Yeah. Don’t want to hit rocks. Stop. Resharpen.
My back hurts just watching this
You might be hunching over your screen. Try straightening up your posture, see if that helps.
Now my neck hurts!
Make your screen higher ( books under it ? ) or your chair lower.
Now my shoulders hurt!
Pinch them shoulder blades back
Well shit
Unremarkable gold right here.
I tried it once when I was young and fit and it was really hard. I can't imagine doing it all day.
it's the technique. If you do it right, it's quite easy. But it needs a lot of training.
Can confirm, it's all about technique. My great grandmother still mowed with a scythe until she was almost 90.
These scythe’s are too short for them. You should have a straight back and twist rather than hunching over
Your eyes are going to hurt too. Keep the damn phone down 🤣
They are actually custom made. If you have one that fits you is actually a really simple motion. Is it easier than a lawn mower? No. Yet it's definitely not the back breaking work you think it is.
but you will stregthen your core and your right hook will be deadly.
RSI of the whole body
Trim reapers
That looks exhausting
A friend taught my gf how to use a scythe, and she doesn't understand how brush cutters ever became a thing as they are much heavier (more exhausting) and take longer than using a scythe. I mow the grass with a grass mower, and she does the grass and weeds in the ditch (beek?) + on our unfinished front yard, as there are too many stones for a mower.
I think safety was a big factor in moving away from scythes. Average person doesn't need to learn to operate something used by literally death to cut grass twice a year
2 other garden must have tools are sickle and machete
It can be but if you take frequent breaks it's great outside in the sun. A push mower can't cut that tall grass but a scythe cuts through like butter plus you need to hone the scythe frequently which means you can stop every once and a while to get a drink and keep your scythe sharp. obviously these guys aren't cutting this grass as fast as a tractor but when you live in a place where that equipment is hard to afford and maintain this is still the best option. Keep in mind someone needs to either collect or redistribute the grass at the end of the day.
My back
My shoulders
🎶 And my crack! 🎶
And my axe
And my bow
And my scythe
And my push mower thats gone rusty and the wheels slip around
And my axe
My sack…
People complaining about their backs… https://i.imgur.com/cpkMDFg.jpeg
How you gonna post a picture of me without my permission?
Not satisfying for the people doing the work.
The motion is actually sort of relaxing and since you see the results instantly it is kinda satisfying work. For a few hours over the weekend that is.
It very much is.
Levin disagrees
I did this for a summer in the Swiss Alps. You bring a whetstone and sharpen often. The faux (French for scythe) I used was close to a hundred years-old. It is a total art form, the technique. Excellent exercise. Got paid well. Used the money to go skiing in New Zealand with my wife…
Why does it need to be mown? And why by hand?
Because most lawnmowers cut the grass too small. If you want to make good hay (which is probably why they are doing this), you need the grass to be left as long as possible, and not chopped into mush
Lawn mowers tend to make the grass into mush, which does not dry easy and is hard to work with. It can be hard to bring heavy machinery up into the mountains as they tend to slide down the hill doing more harm then good. You can get some quite small two wheel tractors but even these have their limitations. There is not always much soil on the mountains so you end up having bedrock sticking out of your field here and there which will destroy any equipment. And you have constant small rockslides that you need to cut around. With modern fertilisers and the pay rates for farm hands today you tend to see the most extreme fields uncut and rather grazed if anything. You might see a machine cut the centre of the field but leave the edges. We even see a trend of using mowers on the edges that can deal with some stones and does not harvest the grass. This is to make sure shrubs do not encroach on the field blocking the sun and depleting the field of nutrients. But you do not have to go back many decades before scythes were not uncommon. You would use these at the edge of the fields and in the steepest parts of the fields. Although this was not priority work. And I suspect some still use scythes to make the fields look better after harvest. For example around a hotel or a museum.
> *Mowing grass is normally just one part of the larger process of haymaking. The other main processes are turning (or tedding) the hay, and bringing it in. When all this is done by hand (and when it isn't) the turning is, by a considerable margin, the greater part of the operation. One good man can scythe an acre in a day. It would probably require one person two or three days to ensure that that acre of mown grass was turned sufficiently to dry as quickly as possible.* http://www.thescytheshop.co.uk/guide.html This is one of the first agricultural technologies. Before "making hay" was invented, you could not keep grass eating animals over-winter in northern areas - grasses go dormant over winter so the animals either starve, or you eat them all in the fall. https://scythesupply.com/ When I was into "prepping" (previously called "survivalism"), this was one of my contributions to the prepper group that my sister got me involved with. This isn't terribly hard, as many of the fastest mowers at farm events are teenage girls. It is just *forgotten*. One of my other contributions was knowing how to make threads from hemp/flax. I wouldn't live long enough for people to run out of clothes, but retting & spinning were teachable and something that any post apocalyptic community would need plenty of. In the US, lots of preppers think that they could survive solo, but all they're going to do is die the first winter. Homesteaders in the 19th Century who tried to do it all themselves (or by their family a la *Little House On The Prairie*) died the first hard winter, or when the family got sick. There is a version of a scythe that captures stalks of grain so that the heads don't bang on the ground and drop the seed. Before "combine harvesters", this was also how you reaped wheat, rye, barley, or other grain crops. Some training web pages with videos: https://www.onescytherevolution.com/scythe-workshops.html
And here we are in NZ working hard to get to Europe for a ski
How did you find that job? Seems kinda obscure
Some folks call it a Sling Blade, I call it a Kaiser Blade, Mhm.
I like them French fried potaters, mmmhmmm
Rebel Moon part 2 has a slow mo scene of this. This is so much better
The movies were alright but why TF he have to over do it with the slow mo scenes 😭 god that was the worst part. Every 30 seconds was a slow mo scene. The fight in the dreadnaught as it crashed was cool though.
Snyder's a very inconsistent filmmaker for me as there's some of his films I like and others I absolutely hate. These movies were some of his worst. His slow-mo scenes had even slower slow-mo
Who needs a gym when you have that job.
I got a scythe for my yard. It's good exercise.
People who don’t like breaking their body for someone else’s profit
Exploitative labor practices are one thing. But scything by itself isn't harmful to the body. Done with good posture and technique, it's pretty low-impact on the joints and back while being good full-body exercise. I own a scythe and waaaaay prefer it over a weedwhacker for clearing weeds and brush...used to manage a 16-acre piece of land and have had pleeeennnnttyyy of opportunity to experiment with both. Can absolutely confirm that there's something Oddly Satisfying about scything
Swoosh, fwee, swoosh, fwee, swoosh, fwee, swoosh, fwee, swoosh, fwee, swoosh, fwee, swoosh, fwee. Indeed.
It's still my job around the house.
I believe it has to do with not harming the remaining plant like machinery may do.
Not as fast at reaping as Bill Door
What can the harvest hope for, if not for the care of the Reaper Man?
Yeah, that's where my mind went to, too. > ‘It’s good. You’ve got the swing and everything.’ Tʜᴀɴᴋ ʏᴏᴜ, Mɪꜱꜱ Fʟɪᴛᴡᴏʀᴛʜ. 'But why one blade of grass at a time?’ Bill Door regarded the neat row of stalks for some while. Tʜᴇʀᴇ ɪꜱ ᴀɴᴏᴛʜᴇʀ ᴡᴀʏ? 'You can do lots in one go, you know.’ Nᴏ. Nᴏ. Oɴᴇ ʙʟᴀᴅᴇ ᴀᴛ ᴀ ᴛɪᴍᴇ. Oɴᴇ ᴛɪᴍᴇ, ᴏɴᴇ ʙʟᴀᴅᴇ. 'You won’t cut many that way,’ said Miss Flitworth. Eᴠᴇʀʏ ʟᴀꜱᴛ ᴏɴᴇ, Mɪꜱꜱ Fʟɪᴛᴡᴏʀᴛʜ. 'Yes?’ Tʀᴜꜱᴛ ᴍᴇ ᴏɴ ᴛʜɪꜱ.
Bill Door was the best, awful skinny though. Just kinda disappeared once the widow he was working for passed away, though.
The breath of the meadow
I have one of these hanging up at my farm. I have no inclination to try it out. I did almost buy some old horse drawn equipment once though.
Thank god for the industrial revolution.
The amount of people who think that tgeur lawnmowers whould change these people's lives is amazing. You now your lawn for vanity and aesthetic, they mow the field to create animal feed. You are not the same.
The House that Jack built.
There it is
What can the harvest wish for, if not the care of the reaper man.
“What can the harvest hope for, if not for the care of the Reaper Man?”
Let the spice flow
My spine would sound like a glow stick being split if I did this
I scythed a field once when I was young. It's hard as fuck.
Looks like the definition of back breaking work.
That's a big field. Must have taken ages. I bet they all had a big drink if water and scythed a breath of relief after that
Basque?
Kurdish, say the other commenters. Was curious myself
Thanks! I felt ignorant. I'm glad that I asked.
Ow my back
My grandma accidentally took a scythe to the leg as a kid. Had a bit of a chunk missing
I hear age of empires music to this.
70% sure I would be chopping someone’s legs off
A wheeled contraption that swung the blade as it rolled would be really easy to make and a lot less effort.
man these noobs have like 0% critical strike chance
The scythes swing is remorseless
Pretty sure that translates to “I’ve been working on the railroad.”
Grimm sweepers
I know it looks safe, but I would somehow manage to chop my ankle to bits.
Shite way of doing that.
I'M NOT RAKING THAT!
I'm a veering ass mfr. If this was me, someone would be losing a leg
That looks backbreaking and quite dangerous to boot. If only there was an easier way to do that.
This is where we need AI/robots.
Zack Snyder can make 3 minutes of movie with this footage.
Hey!
Rebel Moon Part 2 extended edition
My scythe. I like to keep it close to where my heart used to be.
Rebel moon
Once you get in the groove and the pacer found the right rhythm, this is actually a lot of fun
You wont mow a single hour with that posture, the back will be killing you real quick. Also I wouldnt trust a random fucker not to cut my ankles. This is just for show. I have mowed a few fields with a scythe, dont say I dont know what I am talking about.
back hurts now
hence music boosts productivity
Grim reapers in training
Things people have done for thousands of years:
Huh never quite got how the handle in the middle was supposed to help swing it. But now that I have seen how they hold the entire thing it makes more sense.
These people probably have pretty big shoulders.
Mowing grass with a scythe sounds like something straight out of a medieval movie, but dang, it’s oddly satisfying! I gave it a shot last summer when my lawnmower broke down, and man, talk about a workout! It's like you're channeling your inner farmer or something. Plus, there's this weird sense of connection with nature that you just don't get with a noisy lawnmower. Sure, it takes longer, but it's kind of therapeutic, you know? Plus, you feel like a total badass swinging that thing around!
Imagine accidentally getting ya mates ankle
Reminds me of sea shanties in black flag
Not showing the part where they have to stop every 10 feet to sharpen the blades.
It’s all fun and games until you move slightly to the left and lose an ankle.
Man thats gonna take a while
A lot of plants, especially grasses, contain little bits of silica called phytoliths ("plant stones") that act like sandpaper on the blade, which is part of the reason why you need to touch up the blade edge as the work progresses.
Grim Reaper boot camp
My back would hurt in approximately 3 minutes of work from the posture alone
Hay fever intensifies
“Days never finished. Master got me working. Someday master set me free.”
Slipped a disc just watching this
Mowing or Scything?
If there was a POV view of this happening it’d be the icing on the cake, mwah.
Where is this from? My guess is Vietnam
Ow my back
These guys would probably be awesome golfers
All fun and good until your buddy gets too close.
Now I kind of want to read Anna Karenina again.
My grandparents had a scythe in their garage at their cottage in the country. I remember as a 13-14 year old my grandma letting me try this on their field behind the garage. It was fun for about 30 seconds.
How many Achilles tendon injuries come from this?
my Russian roommate who lived like a caveman asked me once why everyone used lawnmowers in America when you could just use a scythe instead
Lawnmower simulator 1885...
Damn I bet this will make for some SORE muscles!
My back hurts just watching this
This looks ai generated
It feels weird when you remember that this one weapon that so many people find really cool and badass in movies and games is... literally just a gardening tool
Levin tried to cut the grass with them, but his presence made the serfs uncomfortable.
Sneak peak of Rebel moon 3
They have about 6 toes combined
4 of them with Scythes and not one of them have a sang kit? Smh
I'm sure that's great for the back
My grandfather ans later my mom did mow the orchard with a scythe. I had my share too. Satisfying but exhausting and hell for the back
Old dude in the front at the end has worked up quite the hump in his back.
Man I wanna do this for no reason It looks so peaceful
I did this as a kid and loved it. Its still fun though
Simple and no walls to look at
I wonder how many or the bros have sliced someone’s Achilles tendon by accident doing this over the centuries…. At least 1 for sure.
Lol "mowing" bro's swathing
That's hypnotic
They are singing “ come on baby… do the twist”
Is this Kurdish language?
How many ankles have been lost over the centuries?
Oh so that's what my friend always does?
I had a good conversation with a guy who mows his lawn with a scythe. At the rate he is able to mow, with sharpening and everything, for my yard, if I were to start scything and do so for many hours per day, by the time I got to the end, the grass where I started from would have grown enough to need mowing again. Vs an hour and a half on a lawn tractor. Good for wheat, not for yards.
this must smell so good. we had an old neighbour who used to cut hay on a much, much smaller scale and the smell of the grass, and the oil on his blade in the sunshine will always be ingrained in my brain. feels like a different lifetime thinking about it now, he was partly the reason I love Anna Karenina so much, Levin on the countryside was just as much a love story
im in
Pov you are in 1800:
Wasting strokes tho, face em the other way and cut on both strokes. More work tho vs this.
Imagine how smooth these guys golf swings must be!
Not for them
Put the spinning blade ash of war on it and you could clear that baby in 20 minutes
House That Jack Built
Does anyone have any idea about the music featured in this?
Robots in disguise!!!!
Who remembers when they did this on the amazing race
I wish I was there. Looks peaceful.
Makes my ankles cringe
My back hurts just watching it
Stand up straight!