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Is this the right NG?
"Jim Webster" wrote in message
... Gilgamesh wrote in message ... Yes, I know the sickle is still in use - although we had progressed to steel, I used one 2 or 3 times in the 1950's & 60's to open up the cornfields for the self-binder - and Orwell notes the use of the sickle in North Africa between the wars (as well as plough teams of an ox & an ass) -- here in the NW of England the biggest use of the sickle in the 20th century was actually cutting the grass etc on a dike cop (the bank a hedge is grown on) as you were trimming the dike. In this area In the 20th century, a ley or scythe was used for opening out, not a sickle. -- Jim Webster "The pasture of stupidity is unwholesome to mankind" 'Abd-ar-Rahman b. Muhammad b. Khaldun al-Hadrami' I don't dispute that, although I was taught that the bagging hook was the tool for the job. I'm sure either did at least as good a job as the big petrol strimmer my cousin uses on the hedgebanks now - and we could use the resulting hay for the rabbits. I would, however, have been 10/11/12 at the time, not big enough to handle a scythe, and not savvy enough to be trusted with one anyway. I usually got roped in on the basis that David (my friend & the farmer's son) couldn't come fishing until the job was done, so it was a sickle each. These were smallish fields of oats - D's dad still used the self-binder on those, although he combined the rest of the grain crops (he fed the oats in the sheaf if my memory isn't playing tricks) -- May glorious Shamash make his face to shine upon you Gilgamesh of Uruk (Include Enkidu in the subject line to avoid the spam trap) |
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