Ron Hardin wrote:

I use a pair of Bose noise-cancelling headphones, less cord just the phones,
mowing the lawn; or used to before I went to a scythe, which is more
entertaining.


Why am I getting visions of a 'Father Time' sort trimming the lawn?
The weirdest I've seen in real life was over a friends house some
years ago. They lived on a steeply sloped lot, making mowing very
difficult. In a moment of enlightenment, they bought a GOAT to graze
the grass. Everything went well until the poor creature got very sick
and started leaving obnoxious smelling droppings/sprayings all over.

That ended the experiment very quickly. The goat was returned to the
farm, where it lived out it's it's normal and happy goatish life.





mike

m II wrote:

Ron Hardin wrote:

I use a pair of Bose noise-cancelling headphones, less cord just the phones,
mowing the lawn; or used to before I went to a scythe, which is more
entertaining.

Why am I getting visions of a 'Father Time' sort trimming the lawn?

You're not exactly harvesting the lawn, just cutting it back. There's no
question a full scythe looks cool.

The 3' grass blade is my favorite, but only works on a straight snath, and when
the grass it not too dry; the 26" is better all around, with a bent snath. Once
you're into it, you get them all. The pleasure is in looking for the perfect
stand of grass, that falls over completely when just touched by the razor-sharp
blade.

There are at various times and conditions approaches to this, which is what you
watch for.

I'm not sure father time was much into that.

Part of the ritual is wheting the blade every five minutes or so, and peening the
edge every few days, to get it paper thin again.

Otherwise you don't get your fix of stretches of perfect grass cutting.
--
Ron Hardin


On the internet, nobody knows you're a jerk.

Ron Hardin wrote:

(most of a good posting snipped)

Part of the ritual is wheting the blade every five minutes or so, and peening the
edge every few days, to get it paper thin again.

Otherwise you don't get your fix of stretches of perfect grass cutting.



It's nice to see such care, attention and learning being put into an
activity most of us don't know much about. Well..I have the 'aversion'
part sorta figured out and I *usually* cut away from the electric
cord. Now, due partly to that, I know greatness when I see it.






mike