Scything Canadian Thistles

Cleaning up an abandoned Ruth Stout method garden, overgrown by quack grass and Canadian thistles.I am using a 50cm Fix light bush blade with a 170cm Fix Snath. This area was well-fertilized with round bale hay and chicken manure wood shavings bedding, so the thistles grew quite large and tough. There is also some burdock growing in the corner, that I tackle as well. This all would have been much easier to scythe earlier in the season, while the thistles were small, but mowing them down just before flowering is supposed to set them back the most. We will see. They were about to flower, so I had to get them cut down quick. The stems were too big to use as mulch, so I created a compost stack with them. Deep hay mulch, smothers a lot of weed types, but not quackgrass, nor Canadian thistles. The round bales were full of thistle seed. Buying round bale hay can introduce a lot of weed seeds. Quack grass can ruin a Ruth Stout method garden.
This is a longer video. Sit back and enjoy the sounds and scenery, while I get some work done. www.onescytherevolution.com/b...

[@barnabyvonrudal1]

Impressive work!

[@notsoserious0944]

Goat heaven.

[@dorafriesen7267]

Great video!God created us to work with are hands and do physical work.

[@ronaldlinkenhoker5705]

You live in a beautiful place. Wonderful farm. I assume you’re using a brush blade. I need to get mine out this week too.

[@ArtOfHealth]

Did you do that just for me??? Thanks a lot!😉 So how about telling me how many minutes you do this before resting. How long does it take you after swinging for one hour to get rid of the soreness? Are you using the pink stone and metal file on this blade? You sold me that blade and the long grass blade.