On Jun 28, 8:57 am, Ron Hardin wrote:
hobbes wrote:

Hi,

I have a slope lawn and I think this is just the gadget for solving
the problem. Sadly at 16,000 Euros, about $US 20,000 it is a bit
pricy. But it sure looks like fun.

What it is is a Kawasaki 17 hp mower hooked up to a 4wD mower base. It
is made in the Czech Republic in Europe. There is even a YouTube video
about it. And it is also radio
controlled so the operator is always safe. Tipping over of the mower
is O.K. because the operator can be up to 100 feet or more away. It
has a run time
of six hours and runs on regular gasoline. So unlike battery powered
machines it really has the power to mow stuff.

http://www.spider-cz.com/

Best, Mike.

Or get a scythe. http://www.scythesupply.com

It has to become a hobby though. I keep an acre mowed with a scythe,
a little each day.

An ``outfit'' will run you about $170. (snath, blade, stone, bar peen
hammer, larger anvil.) It will cost you about $1000 after you get
into it and get all the interesting blades, to get the perfect one
for each occasion. And of course you'll want extra snaths so you
don't have to swap blades so often just to cut over some uneven
terrain with a shorter blade, and so forth...
--
Ron Hardin


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I'd imagine by now you have restored a few dead blunt blades to
cutting efficiency.
Would you explain the process.
I pound out a few now and again -but all I ever see are ones that have
been abused or blunted by repeated grinding without having been peined
for a long time. I am tempted to take them to the forge and then
quench the edge in some melon.