EarthNSky wrote:
...I really need to mow today and all the neighbors are gone. I have 5Well, I was too, but I fired the blasted mower (actually, declined to
hours of mowing to do and it looks like it will break out into rain any
second. I'm frustrated.
have it repaired ONCE AGAIN!) and now use the scythe...quieter, more
pleasant exercise, doesn't chew up my toads and only takes about 20%
longer than mowing did. Plus which I can do it early in the morning,
dew or no, which is when I really prefer to work outside in 'grass season'.
I used it for the 'big yard', about a half acre, at first, but now, as
the kids have moved around the world, I mow less and less area--not much
call for a volleyball court anymore, or ball-playing areas, etc, so now
I only mow an area that if put all together would likely measure about
100' each way, square, plus paths to the garden (200' or so by one
swath-width), the outhouse, and the root cellar (another 100' or so, one
swat wide). Whole thing takes little time: not even worth getting out
and fighting with a mower, not to mention the maintenance on the
bloomin' thing; the scythe requires nothing I can't do myself, on the
spot. Plus which with the scythe I trim as I go...and that's what
really ate up the time before. Counting trim time, I don't spend as
long doing with the scythe as I did with the mower, by a long shot.
The only negative has been that I have to shut the dog in his yard and
he hates it, but not a good idea to be using a scythe around
critters/little uneducated 2-leggers. He gets over it the second he's out.
SJ
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