kontextmaschine:

I think I finally got the hang of the scythe

The instructional stuff I read (and watched) was all “don’t use your arms to move it, hold them straight and pivot at the hips!”

And for a while I was trying to do that and it just exhausted my arms and didn’t have that great control anyway

And I think the thing was to start your rotation at the core but don’t treat the arms as solid spokes but heavy ropes with their own inertia and let them whip around to follow the core

Now that I’ve got the rhythm honestly I’m thinking of upgrading from a 24″ to a 32″ grass blade or maybe at least a 28″ heavy blade, there’s one part of the side yard that’s a thick enough grass species I have to make a few hacks at it at cutting length

update: I had not at all gotten the hang of the scythe, when the grass started standing up again-

okay wait, first, I left the windrows to dry, but then it rained for 2 days and so I had to rake them out with a dethatching rake

THEN when the grass got unbent it was revealed that I had just bent half of it over and somehow thinned the rest out like a scraggly 70%?

Anyway I said fuck that and got an EGO battery mower, it really does work as well as gas mowers like they say