The Scythe BookSecond Edition Mowing Hay, Cutting Weeds, and Harvesting Small Grains with Hand Tools

In the days when most people want to know how to do something without the help of electricity and gasoline, Scythe Book shows how traditional hand tools can extend beyond modern technology. For gardeners, farmers and homeowners, sickles and good sickles are effective and pleasant tools for harvesting small grains, mowing grass and weeds. In this book, David Tresemer presents the results of years of research and practical experience, so that the reader can learn to use and understand the sickle.

The new version of this "Sickle Book" includes the use of the real sickle by the appendix "The Dance of the Scythe" and Peter Vido. Starting with childhood memories at Slovakia, Peter Vido shares what he learned when traveling from a European lawnmower and a sickle manufacturer to a country that is still using a sickle recently, installing a knife We gave information on. And sn) detailed instruction. Personal, care, repair blades, working principle, and many attractive legends

The sickle may have gone back to c. It seems that it was used in ancient Rome in 500 BC, but it became more common in the agronomic development of the Carolinga era (8 th century). It was originally used for mowing but harvested crops instead of the sickle of the 16th century. Because the sickle is more ergonomic and more efficient. About 1800, the grain cradle adds a standard file when adding grass, adds balsa fingers to the blade to align the grain stalks and combine their heads to facilitate collection and threshing did. In developed countries, the sickles are mainly replaced by electric lawn mowers and combine harvesters.

The sickle has been used to hay for hay and cheaper grains, but the sickle was used to harvest wheat until the 19th century. Therefore, harvesting wheat using a sickle is not a new technology invention, it seems to be responsive to price change. The sickle requires less labor to harvest one acre of land, but leaves more grain on the ground, so the price of food is lower than wages and farmers use sickles instead of sickles. E.J.T. Collins, "Harvesting Techniques and Labor Supply in the UK", 1790-1870, "Economic History Review", December 1969, XXIII: 453-473.

In the days when most people want to know how to do something without the help of electricity and gasoline, Scythe Book shows how traditional hand tools can extend beyond modern technology. For gardeners, farmers and homeowners, sickles and good sickles are effective and pleasant tools for harvesting small grains, mowing grass and weeds. In this book, David Tresemer presents the results of years of research and practical experience, so that the reader can learn to use and understand the sickle.

The second version of the sickle book prepares hay, cuts weeds and harvests small pieces with hand tools