permaculture

[Scott Pittman <pci@permaculture-inst.org>]

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> Subject:
> Re: [permaculture] A good scythe
> From:
> Niels Corfield <mudguard@gmail.com>
> Date:
> Thu, 29 Jun 2006 19:27:03 +0100
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> permaculture <permaculture@lists.ibiblio.org>
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> permaculture <permaculture@lists.ibiblio.org>
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> 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*


Its been years since I used a scythe but we used to harvest with a 
scythe that had wooden fingers behind the blade that was called a 
cradle.  The cradle caught the cut wheat with each swing of the scythe.

Scott Pittman