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Who needs a weedwacker when you can use a scythe?

on 01 Jul 2012

From wsj.com: Who Needs a WeedWacker When You Can Use a Scythe? With a WeedWacker under his arm, Dan Kowalsky was at work trimming the median strip of U.S. Route 1 in suburban Westport, Conn., when he was asked, above the din: Why not use a scythe? You mean that Grim Reaper thing? he yelled. [...]

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Scythe, Gabriola!

on 15 Jun 2010

I love the quiet of Gabriola, and interrupting that tranquility with a lawnmower seems just…. wrong. Evil, even. So we ordered a scythe over the internet, and found a book about scything, too. We assembled our scythe, and went to work early one morning. The first surprise is that scything is insanely fun. When I’m [...]

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