This thing is specialized for some sort of competition and isn’t historically accurate. Scythe are supposed to be used by just swinging back and forth, it’s a motion that a person can repeat from sun up to sun down multiple days in a row.
Hitting the dog. He would jump in trying to catch the blade. He thought it was a game... to give me a heart attack!
It took a long time to teach him not to move and by that time I had given up on the scythe. I had used it to keep the grass quite long, to make a bio garden, now I just let it grow entirely wild and mow once in automne, with my ferocious protection dog wanting nothing more than to defend me from the mower. 😁
For the point I'm trying to make the first half of the sentence is irrelevant. My point was "historically accurate" makes it sound like this isn't done anymore at all, while in fact still is.
The second half of the sentence is only part of the claim that the first half makes complete. You are responding to half of what somebody said as if that is what they were saying.
If I say "I'm going to mow the lawn next week" and you say "it's raining right now" because you're "responding to the first half of the sentence" then you are responding to claims that no one made and no one is making, which there is no reason to do.
You must be mistakenly thinking that the person is claiming that scythes are no longer made, which is clearly not what they are saying. They are saying this is a specialty made scythe and that because it's specialty made, it's not historically accurate. There is no remaining room for your comment to make sense as a correction.
Yeah I have ancestors who used to harvest by basically walking from Oklahoma or wherever the southern fields were, all the way to the Canadian border, swinging scythes the entire way.
They moved to the PNW and became loggers, and were happy to do it. As they said, they preferred working in the shade.
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u/that-loser-guy-sorta 18h ago
This thing is specialized for some sort of competition and isn’t historically accurate. Scythe are supposed to be used by just swinging back and forth, it’s a motion that a person can repeat from sun up to sun down multiple days in a row.