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Learn how to use a scythe on your property for haying, harvesting, and more – while enjoying an invigorating method to farming that scythe use brings. Forms of the scythe have been in use since at ...

The morning sun beat down as Antoine Waithe sharpened his scythe. He knelt in the grass, carefully handling the tool. Its long, handsome blade caught the light. It was a hot Thursday in August, and ...

“Yes, it’s a sharp blade at the end of a long stick, so the potential to be harmful is there, but scythes are safe if they’re treated with respect,” she says. For a scythe to be effective, that curved ...

For a scythe to be effective, that curved blade has to be kept razor sharp, so in the wrong hands it could be lethal – not least for the person at the other end of the snath (handle). But so could ...