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Longfellow Snath
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- čas přidán 30. 07. 2019
- Field mowing with the BYXCO Longfellow snath.
Particularly well suited for extra tall or extra short users, or for sharing between users of greatly different heights, as the required tang angle for the blade does not change with the user's height as in common snaths. A quick adjustment of the single nib (side grip) is all that is needed to alter the height setting. Proudly made in the USA!
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What a beautiful thing. Thank you. I got my hands on an old scythe recently and have been using it to mow our little yard for about a month, but the last nib came off in my hand today and the wood as a whole has seen better days. Good to get different ideas of what shapes work.
There's a bunch of different global styles, but ultimately the job of a snath is to connect the hands to the blade in a given spatial relationship so how you connect them matters less in specific so long as the blade is oriented right relative to the ground and your stroke.
I’ve been cutting my backyard grass with the very same size that’s used in this video. Very effective tool for cutting grass.
Hey sir. Just found an American scythe at a flea market today. Nibs and wood look pretty good, blade is a bit rusted. Surface rust mainly. Hope to mow with it! Hope you’re doing well
Don't knock yourself out de-rusting the blade if it's just light surface rust. As soon as you put it to work the mild acidity of the plant sap will etch it all off in little time. If shaving the snath down, a good weight for an all-purpose wooden snath is about 2lb 12oz, with allowances made if the hardware is a particularly heavy sort.
I'm mesmerized by these scything videos. Lol. Makes me wanna sell all my hay equipment and just buy a scythe and a rake.
A scythe can actually make a good complimentary tool to haying equipment, and will allow you to mow spaces that are difficult to reach with the machinery. :)
I want to raise hay on my hobby farm. I’m struggling to afford the equipment though. I’m thinking I’ll get a scythe and a rake and see how far I can get this summer.
I want one :)...i really have an interest in scything but don't know where to start as far as purchasing the equipment
Here's a good place to start! But feel free to email us with details about your mowing needs for a suggestion. :)
www.baryonyxknife.com/scac.html
So it only requires one nib.
I understand why I had such a hard time with a normal sized snath now.
It's due to the manner in which it's designed, not due to any faults inherent to standard American snath design! Standard American snaths will typically comfortably fit users up to 5' 11" tall while the Longfellow us designed not only for very tall folks, but also for people who intend to share the snath between users of different heights, since users of any height will use the same tang angle thanks to the arrangement of the hands in use. Unless you're taller than 5' 11" it's most likely the trouble you had was due to poor tuning and fitting! American blades need to have their tang angle set for the unique combination of snath, user, and mowing conditions. The shank of the tang is heated with an oxy-acetylene torch or induction heater and bent to the correct angle needed for that user to bring the edge appropriately low to the ground. For most users that ends up being somewhere between 10-15°
@@FortyTwoBlades My height is 6'3" which is what I meant by understanding why I have a hard time with a normal size snath.
Would you recommend staining or sealing the longfellow snath before using it?
Could someone install a second nib for the left/upper hand? or would that affect the blade angle too much?
Doing so would cause the blade to lay far too downward. It's possible to add a second nib to it, but it would be as a nib for the setting of a different user so that both of your preferred nib positions were semi-permanently set without having to re-adjust the nib setting between the two of you. The upper hand should grasp the shaft of the snath as shown in the video for proper lay of the blade in use.
It’s recorded from so fat away I can’t see how well it works
Fortunately for you, from 3:58 onwards there's close footage. ;)