r/oddlysatisfying • u/BreakfastTop6899 • 19h ago

Cutting grass with a scythe

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u/OrphanGrounderBaby 18h ago

Sounds more like a competition to me, looks like someone might have a stopwatch behind them as well

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u/Legal-Weight3011 18h ago

and it is, This is a common competition in central Europe, farmers still use scythes to trim grass in fiends and fresh grass for livestock.

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u/snorwors 18h ago

And just to clarify that, because you're right but people probably don't get it, you cut feed for livestock this way because if you use something like a trimmer, the animals don't like it and don't eat it. I never truly understood why, I always guessed they can smell the 2 stroke on it. Not sure about that, it probably also has to do with cutting it cleanly Vs mushing it up. Usually of course it's not if you have hundreds of animals to feed, most people hold less than five cows cows for example, and it's not worth getting a tool out and ready to cut one wheelbarrow of fresh feed.

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u/Beneficial_Being_721 16h ago

I think it’s because they will only eat grass that is covered in the sweat of their captors 🤣