cutting long grass with sickle

 I want to leave cutting my lawn until late autumn

then take a hand scythe to it

anyone here do tis?

if so, where do you get your sickle and whetstone?

and what type of scythe do you use

I see B&Q have a compact 'folding reaping hook'

thanx

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 wrote:

I think that first you have to decide just what you want to do.
Cut it with a sycle or with a scythe, they are very different from
each other.
You dont say how much grass you have to cut, or for that matter why
you want to cut it by hand.
I presume you have never used either tool, going by your question.
I think in that case you would be better using a good strimmer.
In my time I have cut overgrown lawns bu hand with a scythe and with a
sycle and take it from me it is hard work when you know what you are
doing.
I learned to use them long before strimmers were invented.
David Hill

 

maybe I'm living in the past....

but I used to be a gardener in my youth

and we cut long grass once/year with a short sickle in one hand

and a bamboo cane in the other to lift the grass up

used to motor along for hours without feeling tired

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 On Wed, 25 May 2011 15:02:33 +0100, "Gill Smith"


You must have had a good back!

Steve

 
have to say I try to keep in trim

but it really is very easy to over-estimate one's own abilities and powers
of recovery as you get old

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