Incidentally, if you're scything the lawn, you need sharpening when
partly cut grass sticks on the edge (it will form a clot that keeps
grass at the leftward edge of the stroke from cutting). You can
persist a little by raising the snath at the beginning of the stroke
at the right, and lowering it on the left, thus exposing new blade
as the stroke proceeds, but you're actually better off stopping to
sharpen ; and if stone sharpening doesn't cure it, repeen.

Cutting grass requires an insanely sharp scythe ; ordinary brush
scything is not nearly so critical (nor would you use so light a blade
on brush).

--
Ron Hardin


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