permaculture

[Niels Corfield <mudguard@gmail.com>]

Cut your wheat, use a grass blade, green or with seed.
If with seed you want to get an attachment that catches the cut wheat, 
can anyone think of its name?

But really don't till it, ay

N*

Lisa Rollens wrote:

> Roxann,
>
> Would that scythe cut wheat???  I have a bunch of ripe wheat and no way to 
> cut it!  guess I should have thought of that before I planted it!  However, 
> I planted for green manure and just had a wild hair and let it grow to see 
> if it would produce!  I can always till it back in for another green 
> manure/grazing crop for fall.
>
> Thanks,
>
> Lisa, in the Mo Ozarks
>
>
>
> ----- Original Message ----- 
> From: "roxann" <roxann@ancientearthwisdom.com>
> To: "permaculture" <permaculture@lists.ibiblio.org>
> Sent: Wednesday, June 28, 2006 5:57 PM
> Subject: Re: [permaculture] A good scythe
>
>
> I have a brush cutting scythe and I love it. The only learning curves 
> involve figuring out the best way to hold it to get the best swathe cut 
> (just takes a few swings) and sharpening. I suggest getting a good cold 
> hammered blade and not a heat-forged blade because they hold a much better 
> edge and are easy to work back to a good edge when you've knicked it. I 
> bought mine from www.scythesupply.com and am very happy with the products. i 
> am thinking of getting a hand-held sickle and a grass cutting blade next. 
> VERY easy on the back! I've used swing blades and machetes before too, and 
> hate them. my brush blade will cut a sapling the thickness of my finger, but 
> not thicker. and it's not good for cutting grasses, but good for the weedy 
> stuff that comes up under fence lines and such. a grass blade is what you 
> need for pasture type grass.
>
> hope that helps :)
>
> roxann, NW AR, zone 6b
> www.AncientEarthWisdom.com
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