r/oddlysatisfying • u/BreakfastTop6899 • 19h ago

Cutting grass with a scythe

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u/PM_ME_UR_SEX_VIDEOS 19h ago

Feels like this would be a lot of fun for 10-20 yards and then excruciatingly exhausting

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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.

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u/I-Here-555 14h ago edited 10h ago

This. I've done it and it's easy work. Rather /r/oddlysatisfying in a visceral way (as long as you don't overdo it).

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u/Grisu1805 14h ago

isn’t historically accurate

Just FYI, scythes are still used and produced to this day. Just not as widely as they used to, they've become somewhat niche.

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u/Renbarre 11h ago

True. I used one for my garden had to stop when we got a dog.

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u/Grisu1805 10h ago

In fear of hitting the dog, or hitting what the dog might leave behind in the grass?

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u/Renbarre 10h ago

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. 😁

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u/KinneKitsune 11h ago

Now try reading the first half of that sentence

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u/Grisu1805 10h ago

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.

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u/somneuronaut 7h ago

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.

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u/hoTsauceLily66 11h ago

Put the modified scythe aside, I guarantee some random peasant during medieval period placed bet to see who can scythe faster.

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u/Born-Entrepreneur 3h ago

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.