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A friend sent me a video of a competition between a scythe and a push mower, now I'm stuck on watching videos of people cutting grass and wheat. I don't know why, but I really like the simplicity and efficiency of older tools like this.
Are there any historical tools you like that aren't used much, but still do their job perfectly well?
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>>1653267
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>>1653267
My grandpa still used skythe when I was a kid
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>>1653267
Can you share the video?
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>>1655079
The guy looks like a nutjob with the scythe - looks like incredibly hard work
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>>1653281
>Was made to easily and painlessly kill those who have been condemned to die
>Get vilified during the French Revolution and we now see the guillotine as something terrible and horrible
Its crazy that we use drugs that can backfire horribly when this works just as good if not better.
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>>1653267
>Are there any historical tools you like that aren't used much, but still do their job perfectly wel
Wha? People still use scythes, there are essentially no tools which are not being used, or at least have not been retrofitted into a 'better' tool of the same variant.
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>>1655117
That video got my blood boiling for this exact reason. Yeah sure in a small 2x5 plot using a scythe is the better option.
Let's see him do a field this size in the same time a Brush cutter can.
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Old style blacksmithing is the comfiest profession.
Movie is Sansho the Bailiff.
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>>1655199
You need to raise your standards for what pisses you off.
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>>1655243
Seriously, I'm sure if the field needed clearing there'd be more than one dude at a time working on it.
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>>1655243
Well it's a competetion to see what's better, the scythe or the brush cutter? It's a completely biased text towards the scythe. How does that not make you angry?
What?
>>1655262
That's the point, if you had a brush cutter it would take one person the same time it would take many. With much, much less effort than someone on the scythe.
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>>1655199
If you've got a big overgrown area, what the fuck else are you supposed to use besides a scythe?
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>>1655268
Scythes don't need gas and are simple blades on sticks. It's not "better" necessarily, but it's a historical tool that can do a good job, that's what OP was talking about.
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>>1655268
>Well it's a competetion to see what's better, the scythe or the brush cutter? It's a completely biased text towards the scythe. How does that not make you angry?
It's a competition to see which can cut that hunk of grass faster, and I suspect it's done strictly for the novelty of "wow, look how fast this guy can cut that shit." Seriously, cool your fucking autism. If that makes your blood boil, you don't have enough problems in your life.
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>>1655268
>With much, much less effort than someone on the scythe.
Though expending vastly more energy in the form of hydrocarbons.
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>>1655302
Oh wait, you took hyperbole seriously, kek, cya.
>>1655270
In this day and age? A fucking brush cutter? Ride on mower?
>>1655306
Still physically easier and faster though. You cannot keep that pace the scythe man did if you increase the size of the field to the point where you need multiple people.
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>>1655306
Humans can't eat hydrocarbons.
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