Ha! I was thinking of taking this video and setting it to "Don't Fear the Reaper" as a soundtrack. I think you are right though, the wind and birds sound much better. I'll let the music play in my head instead.
form is everything. Once you get it down, and don't lift the blade on the return, it becomes much easier. It's really necessary to have a relatively smooth field, too.
Most of the success of what you see here, is down to all of the work initially spent on sharpening and 'peening' the scythe blade. It's a lot of work at the start, more than we are lead to believe being honest. However, once it's set up, it requires only small amounts of touching up like we see this gentleman doing every 2 mins. It's beautiful then. Not a whole lot of physical effort required.
Ah, not genocide, this will spur better growth in the grass. The true heart of the organism is the rhizosphere under the ground. That's were the magic happens & where the plant is most active. This will grow back, like getting a hair cut.
@@libraryofpangea7018 nah its genocide. The smell of fresh cut grass is the equivalent of grass screaming out for dear life warning other grasses that the end is near.
True. I tired it for the first time on our farm in the Czech Republic. It's NOT easy. However, once you master it, and say, you have two or three others at your side in tandem, it's amazing how fast you can clear a field. Then you spread the grass out to dry. Then you flip it to its other side. And when dry, you gather the hay and put it into the hay loft to feed the animals for the winter.
I recently began a life in the farm with my grandparents, and gotta say it looks easier when you watch it. It takes a massive toll on your back and shoulders scything grass all day till dusk
It's all about technique too. If your back and shoulders are hurting that much, there's probably room for improvement. It should be your core that's doing the hard work, if I understood Slåttergubben right (a great channel btw).
Ngl this looks like a relaxing process. I like long repetitive chores like this because it gives me time to think, though the only chore I have that fits that description is doing the laundry
Grew up on this. Italy. Small holdings. Hard to do consistently without chipping the world’s sharpest razor. Tough, tough, tough to do. We have one that had been shipped to the US for a son (cousin of our dad) who emigrated. Over 100 years old. One of our most precious possessions. When he came to the States and wrote home to his father that he’d bought a house with a little land (Queens - pre-war) his father shipped one in its parts to be reassembled. Poor guy didn’t have the heart to tell him it was a postage stamp. When we bought our house the old man gifted it to us. Will take off a limb in a blink of the eye.
Hi, I can see your improvement from two years in noticing when to sharpen and keeping the blade closer to you while mowing from right to left. You could try and move closer to the grass instead of reaching out with your hands. That would get your movement even more in sync. Enjoy and all the best.
@@lordjaashin probably means stand closer to the tall grass getting cut. He over extends his body to reach out and cut the grass when he could stand closer to it and not have to reach out.
I remember watching my great uncle cut a two acre field with a scythe over a week in Donegal. It was fascinating how quiet but effective he was. He later built hay stacks after it dried.Thanks for sharing this.
wonderful video, serene watching him work, beautiful Swedish land, tugs at my heart somehow, as my mother was Swedish, passed away two years ago at 100- a real Viking, hej from New York and West Virginia
Very nice! You must be in the southern part of the US. Up here in Vermont the grass is still only about 3-4 inches high. We had snow last week, which didn't help! :-(
Great technique! We are not from the same school regarding honing but I see your result and angles is the same with your method as I want to achieve as well! I might had lowerd the handles one step, especially if there is tougher grass and a more technical area with stones and bumbs.
@@lundoftheeast219 I have tried and it is fun! Like learning how it feel to be a little bit of a nube agin - learn what massive impact repetition hundreds and thousands of times have on the skills. Peening it is no problem keep doing with the right hand on a left handed blade. But I guess you mean honing - same here , you just need to repeat over and over again. I mean we at least know how it should feel! But never come to a point where I like work half time with lefthanded and halftime with righthanded. I just keep working with righthanded - it is much easier as well when working in the team. There is also just one type of 70cm left handed blade available on the market.
What a beautiful set up! Would you be so kind as to tell me where you got the snath and blade? I recently picked myself up a European scythe, but would certainly love an American style one, as well!
Scythe Supply, Scythe Connection, and One Scythe Revolution all sell high quality central European equipment. I cannot speak to American styles but I can say the lightweight of an Austrian blade is key for my mowing. Enjoy!
Technically not sharpening, he’s honing the blade, like you would with a honing steel on a chef’s knife before cutting something. It makes a very noticeable difference in the cutting efficiency and if you didn’t hone the blade every few minutes, you’d have to grind or peen the blade almost every day, so the 30s of honing every 2-4 mins saves you from multiple hours of work the next morning.
The best part about this video is that there is no music
Ha! I was thinking of taking this video and setting it to "Don't Fear the Reaper" as a soundtrack. I think you are right though, the wind and birds sound much better. I'll let the music play in my head instead.
It's the sound of silence 😌
Your volume button doesn't work?
I listen the music of the scythe
I know the music some youtbers add to their videos make my head hurt soo much its good to hear the natural grass cutting with the scythe
This feels like one of those tasks that looks fun and easy but you realize how hard it is when you try it
form is everything. Once you get it down, and don't lift the blade on the return, it becomes much easier. It's really necessary to have a relatively smooth field, too.
Everything is hard if you think that way.
Most of the success of what you see here, is down to all of the work initially spent on sharpening and 'peening' the scythe blade.
It's a lot of work at the start, more than we are lead to believe being honest.
However, once it's set up, it requires only small amounts of touching up like we see this gentleman doing every 2 mins.
It's beautiful then. Not a whole lot of physical effort required.
The hardest part is smoothing your field.
Would you rather weed wack maliciously everything on a big farm or sythe 2 acers of grass
I happened to have clicked on a video that showed a woman with a scythe cutting grass and now all I'm seeing on my timeline is scythe and grass
Same here. But I ain't complaining since many of 'em are satisfying to watch.
I am sad (or happy) to inform you, you ended up in the scythe timeline
same
Yesss scything lots of different types of grass es-hay-dandelion fields is just so relaxing
quality content, quality feed, thank God amen
Bob has never witnessed such beautiful and satisfying grass genocide in his life.
Ah, not genocide, this will spur better growth in the grass. The true heart of the organism is the rhizosphere under the ground. That's were the magic happens & where the plant is most active.
This will grow back, like getting a hair cut.
@@libraryofpangea7018 Bob likes his veiw point better.
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Bob, Scion believes skynet is talking.
@@libraryofpangea7018 nah its genocide. The smell of fresh cut grass is the equivalent of grass screaming out for dear life warning other grasses that the end is near.
True. I tired it for the first time on our farm in the Czech Republic. It's NOT easy. However, once you master it, and say, you have two or three others at your side in tandem, it's amazing how fast you can clear a field. Then you spread the grass out to dry. Then you flip it to its other side. And when dry, you gather the hay and put it into the hay loft to feed the animals for the winter.
Wow, i actually sat here and watched some random guy scythe a field for 8 minutes...and found it very satisfying.
Damn that blade sounds and looks sharp. Cuts through the grass like nothing, seems like it doesn't require much effort.
Say that again when you're working with it for an hour and still not even halfway
@@ardaduck735 I'd just take a 15 minute break :)
@@ardaduck735 What kind of person are you that you think an hour of work is intolerable?
@@elliottg5987 a basement dweller probably
Wtf he got done like 1/10 of his yard done in eight mins, hed probably be done in like a hour and a half
I recently began a life in the farm with my grandparents, and gotta say it looks easier when you watch it. It takes a massive toll on your back and shoulders scything grass all day till dusk
Yea, I was thinking that lol. It looks exhausting, but some other people were acting like it was piss easy when this looks like an endurance test.
@@incrediblybored4787 It's all about how sharp the blade is. Surgically scalpel sharp = easy-ish.
Sharp = hard work. Dead in an hour of it.
Looks hard on the knees, too. The repetitive twist and side-loading.
It's all about technique too. If your back and shoulders are hurting that much, there's probably room for improvement. It should be your core that's doing the hard work, if I understood Slåttergubben right (a great channel btw).
These things are a lot more effective than you would imagine without having seen one in use.
This is great! I've been looking for long videos of people using a scythe to try and get my form down. This helped a ton.
Makes me wanna sit back with a beer and take a nap watching.
The melee version of lawnmowing
Ngl this looks like a relaxing process. I like long repetitive chores like this because it gives me time to think, though the only chore I have that fits that description is doing the laundry
Man i wish scything was mandatory in residential areas... Its so quiet & relaxing.
This video was preceded by a commercial for a sit down lawn mower. UA-cam, you got it right this time.
Grew up on this. Italy. Small holdings. Hard to do consistently without chipping the world’s sharpest razor. Tough, tough, tough to do. We have one that had been shipped to the US for a son (cousin of our dad) who emigrated. Over 100 years old. One of our most precious possessions. When he came to the States and wrote home to his father that he’d bought a house with a little land (Queens - pre-war) his father shipped one in its parts to be reassembled. Poor guy didn’t have the heart to tell him it was a postage stamp. When we bought our house the old man gifted it to us. Will take off a limb in a blink of the eye.
Hi, I can see your improvement from two years in noticing when to sharpen and keeping the blade closer to you while mowing from right to left. You could try and move closer to the grass instead of reaching out with your hands. That would get your movement even more in sync. Enjoy and all the best.
can you upload a video demonstrating what you are talking about? i just don't understand what you mean by "move closer to grass"
@@lordjaashin probably means stand closer to the tall grass getting cut. He over extends his body to reach out and cut the grass when he could stand closer to it and not have to reach out.
Who made you head of the scything committee?
@@indus7841it's prolly less "do it my way!"advice and more "I did it like that and hurt myself, try it like this" type advice
I remember watching my great uncle cut a two acre field with a scythe over a week in Donegal. It was fascinating how quiet but effective he was. He later built hay stacks after it dried.Thanks for sharing this.
wonderful video, serene watching him work, beautiful Swedish land, tugs at my heart somehow, as my mother was
Swedish, passed away two years ago at 100- a real Viking, hej from New York and West Virginia
So great. Thanks for sharing.
Awesome! I still use mine sometimes when I don't wanna mess with the weed whacker - crazy how well it works with a nice edge on it =)
*Grabs handful of freshly slain grass*
*cleans blade*
"SHIIING"
idk why but that was way funnier than it should have been
What an exSCYTHING video. Truly a cut above.
A fantastic yet simple and very effective tool.
Came to see scything
Left after seeing scything
And you added a bonus of HEARING a scything!
Good stuff
Now this is the relaxing video I need. Kudos to you sir!
The sounds of ur work are relaxing to me
I don’t know why, but this was so amazing to watch. I’m now looking up how to get a scythe.
Very nice! You must be in the southern part of the US. Up here in Vermont the grass is still only about 3-4 inches high. We had snow last week, which didn't help! :-(
Pacific northwest. It's been in the 60s for a few weeks.
@@lundoftheeast219 shouldn't your name be "lund ofthwest" then? :-)
Looks like Washington! I’ve lived in WA my whole life, I know the PNW when I see it! 😍
I'm a Norwegian, and if it looks like Scandinavia but is not Scandinavia, it's probably PNW or some place in Canada.
I have cleared large patches of briars in my fields with a bush scythe, which works great but is hard work nevertheless. This guy makes it look easy.
My back is aching just from watching
Amazing 🙌 he sure have som skills!!
This must be fantastic exercise.
It takes me more than 8min to fetch my l
Petrol lawn mower and start it. Bravo!
Very smooth.
A very beautiful place
Now that's what I call a great scything!
Done that as a young boy. It’s a tough gig. My father did that days in a roll. Lots of workouts look easy.
LOVE IT!!! :)
Music to the ears.
This thing be taking out my toes better than my bed
that was some great scything.
Exhausting but satisfying way to cut da grass
Great technique! We are not from the same school regarding honing but I see your result and angles is the same with your method as I want to achieve as well! I might had lowerd the handles one step, especially if there is tougher grass and a more technical area with stones and bumbs.
Thank you! Have you ever tried a lefty blade? I thought I would use it more but the peening is very challenging!
@@lundoftheeast219 I have tried and it is fun! Like learning how it feel to be a little bit of a nube agin - learn what massive impact repetition hundreds and thousands of times have on the skills.
Peening it is no problem keep doing with the right hand on a left handed blade. But I guess you mean honing - same here , you just need to repeat over and over again. I mean we at least know how it should feel!
But never come to a point where I like work half time with lefthanded and halftime with righthanded. I just keep working with righthanded - it is much easier as well when working in the team. There is also just one type of 70cm left handed blade available on the market.
eight best minutes of my entire life
listened to this and fell asleep lol nice vid
I really don't understand how this shit can be so satisfying.
When something you expect for a grim reaper or a devil to have is basically a grass cutter
That's actually _why_ he carries it.
Using a Scythe is called "reaping"
Death reaps the land as a farmer reaping wheat... hence Grim *REAPER* ❤👍🏻🍻
What a beautiful set up! Would you be so kind as to tell me where you got the snath and blade? I recently picked myself up a European scythe, but would certainly love an American style one, as well!
Scythe Supply, Scythe Connection, and One Scythe Revolution all sell high quality central European equipment. I cannot speak to American styles but I can say the lightweight of an Austrian blade is key for my mowing. Enjoy!
My dad had an American scythe and that was a beast to use. There may have been a trick to using the weight and momentum but I never figured it out.
The distance, where is fixed the handle to the snath and the blade seems to me quite big; how many cm it is?
Nice!
Did you make the Snath?
This is great
This is satisfying
Imagine all the EXP he’s getting from this
looks fun
Bro even sharpened the blade the correct direction he must do this often
I attached a chainsaw engine to a scythe. It is now fast & efficient. I love my motorsickle.
Showing the obliques some love!
Imagine how many muscles he pulled the first time he tried doing this? Damn.
I fucking love scythes
video: a guy scything grass
the internet: definitely interesting and hilarious
Screw the lawnmower, I'm cutting the front lawn like this from now on, with the added bonus of scaring the crap out of the neighbours 😁😅
Anyone else here after reading Anna Karenina?
I want to buy one. It's a good exercise..
AWESOME
how long do you spend sharpening the blades is what i really wanna know. Everyone knows that most the work is in the prep
That has to be hard af but its quiet and gas free.
“Why would anyone do drugs when they could just mow a lawn.” - Hank Hill
Does he have to resharpen every 2 minutes?
Technically not sharpening, he’s honing the blade, like you would with a honing steel on a chef’s knife before cutting something. It makes a very noticeable difference in the cutting efficiency and if you didn’t hone the blade every few minutes, you’d have to grind or peen the blade almost every day, so the 30s of honing every 2-4 mins saves you from multiple hours of work the next morning.
Natural 👏🏻👍👌
Good exercise
I can see (or, more accurately, hear) why they called it a scythe: that is the sound it makes when you use it.
Great! 🍃🌿💯
Imagine lying on the grass on a sunny day and suddenly.....
How long do you think you could do this for a day? How many acres per day?
I can almost smell that freshly cut grass
Is it grass or flax?
that's cool
Peace be with you.
Wouldnt mind trying the scythe mowing technique but I wrecked by back operating scrapers and I live on a farm lol takes 3 hours with a 56" mower
Look at him go!
Satisfaction y e s
Let’s be honest, you searched for this
Nah. Reddit link.
i got back pain just from watching this
Try standing up and stretching a bit 👍
You might have some back pain at first, then those back muscles will start to grow in for you
Does anyone know what kind of gas he’s using Regular or Premium?
Its electric
Breakfast.
nice
It's like a golf swing, but far more satisfying.
Looks more like a hockey swing to me
just a question have you ever encountered with a snake while scything
My God that’s a satisfying sound, but that looks quite tiring, even for just 8 minutes lol.
why do you rub grass on the scythe at 2:05? what does that do?
Just cleanes the blade so it can be honed (sharpened)
I'll bet you get a good night's sleep after cutting the grass with a scythe
Abres mucho el marayu, eso ye un arreventaeru.
Littrealy what I asked for perfect
Why do you wipe the top of the scythe with cut grass? that's the second time I've see someone do that.
You want your blade clean before using the whetstone on it. It's just a simple way to wipe off weeds and dirt.
The scythe has no 'cradle' and yet the grass is still laid neatly on one side. I thought you needed a cradle to achieve that.
I've seen a cradle for grain harvesting where you want the stalks and seed-heads lying in the same direction. For hay that's not necessary.
I imagine with 40 people you could get an acre done in no time.
neat
5 ticks were fed by the making of this video
Ah yes, the the greem reaper
jokes on you I set it to .25 speed and milked this for 32 great scythe minutes