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["John D'hondt" <dhondt@eircom.net>]

A few things that struck me in the video but most of all that the man 
scything uses his arms and not his back. I was thought to scythe by torsing 
the complete upper body and keeping the arms fairly stiff. And that works 
fairly well for me allowing me to cut about an acre of heavy vegetation a 
day on flat land. These days I spend more time scything particular weeds 
like thistles and bracken on steep land dotted with irregularities of buried 
stones and I do use the arms more than the back.
Using the back puts more power into the swing and you could shatter the 
blade if you hit an unseen rock.
Anybody else who has experience with scything and can comment?
John

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