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Bamboo is an amazing material. 👍

Just orderd a sythe for my dads garden. We have tons if overgrown weeds and the lawnmower is not gonna get it. To much and will bog the tiller down and its so tall a hoe is slow work at it. Plan is to mow with the sythe and the till the cut stems under. Ive been wanting one for our tall weeds here for about a year and a half. I started looking at brush cutters for weedeaters and the prices are ridiculous you gotta have a special machine thats attachment capeable. So i just decided to get a scythe. No batterys no gas jusy good old brute force. New mexico gets the monsoon season and we get those tall wet tumble weeds thistles and redroot that grow fast if you dont mow them.

I've seen em outdo a a lawn mower to especially with tall stuff.

I live in the southern US with fire ants, little devils. Those little jerks are always getting in my compost. I stopped putting food scraps in the compost. My chickens get the food scraps. I use a push mower to collect grass clippings and use that in my compost.

Great video! I live in the US zone 8b and I’m going turmeric. I planted some in a raised garden bed and some in a pot. I harvested the 1st year potted plant it was disappointing. I didn’t even bother with the raised bed plant. In the spring it came back!!! I’m looking forward to my harvest because I can see the tubers sticking out of the soil. 🙌🏼

Looks to me like that blade is properly sharp!

Here up north this could work if we have enough consecutive days without rain and high enough temperatures. This season was not a good season for the compost pile. However, it is a very well explained video. I want to share a video about a very simple test that shows how you can test if your compost is ready and safe to be used so that your plant roots won't get burned or anything like that. But also to make sure that most of the bio mass has fully composted and that it has fully turned into plant available nutrients for the plants so that you can get a good consistent result from your efforts. It is a rudimentary test, but it gives you a very good indication. And it takes away a lot of the guesswork. It is from a man who is a soil scientist and a waste management specialist. And it doesn't require complicated or expensive instruments. You need a regular thermos bottle, and a compost temperature meter or some other thermometer with a probe. The video is called...Measuring Compost Maturity Using a 1 L Thermos....from a channel that is called...Transform Compost. It is a really good source of information for people who like to learn more about the general science behind composting, and why temperature and the right air and moisture levels are so important. And which things you should never do. As always thanks for sharing. 👍

Very informative! I was amazed at how quickly your green matter composted. Thanks for sharing.

absolutely fascinating, nature is wonderful and dangerous.

So basically, they squeeze so much water out of what they eat that it starts to roll together and form pellets in their intestines? The more you know!

I appreciate so much when you share more about yourself. Please do this as you feel comfortable. Very interesting peek into your past. Thank you!

Welcome back, I hope that you had a good trip. And thank you for sharing your story. I always enjoy listening. 👍

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Yeah, it does depend a bit on the machete style. There are some decently thick machetes out there that are quite decent at "slicing" branches or even small trees. Now the key is, like you said, slicing if you can't take it in one go, then you risk damaging the blade. If the damage was just a chip, then whatever, you can get it out with a file, but you can have shitty or thin machetes snap in half if you try hacking trees like its an axe. Pulling the blade when slicing and going on a diagonal angle to whatever you're cutting should be enough for bigger cuts.

What zone are you in?

I never allow my yard man to use the leaf blowing on my yard because of the nutrients that the grass clippings put back into the yard and green it up. Even if the cut grass does go brown for a few days when it dies. I couldn't care less. I feed a lot of feral cats and don't like putting chemicals into my yard to treat the grass.

You should be proud you know not many people can handle farming

I'm an autistic farmer too and we can be different and still fit In

You’ve just shown everyone how to keep their back in tact but remove a knee a bit earlier than necessary 😂 “right tool for the right job”, this shovel isn’t the right tool

That is a handy chicken tractor. I think that the roosters didn't get the memo about the plan to move 😄 As always very imformative. Thanks for sharing 👍

You should try seasonal vines. You can use lemon grass as well. Vetiver is good but lemon grass is pretty strong and fast growing and it actually dissolve the sand so perhaps it may work in the same way in your situation. Lemon is perfect for tropics and desert, the more heat the faster it grows. I am in Dubai in Middle east and its desert but we grew that in saline poor sandy and boy the quality of soil was so good and dark sandy loam. we grew pomegranates and many fruits. you can try sweet potato vines only to be chopped and composted. Secondly edible plants for livestock is your option to keep the minerals locked in vegetation which when the time comes can be fed to sheep. Napier grass is also a good option. The rains will pass on but leave the minerals because of large plants.

Follow through the cut, thank you

First thing to do is to fill the pipe with boiling water. Then you can feel if the pipe is clogged or not, and also where it is clogged. If the pipe doesn't get warm after a certain point, then that is place where the clog is. I installed a fair amount of water pipes for my aquaponics system. And I have a fair amount of experience with pond pumps and distributing and draining water through plastic pipes and filters and such, and a fair amount of experience with siphon systems. And I glued many pipes and drilled many holes in plastic. What capacity is the pump? How many liters or gallons per hour? It should be mentioned on a tag on the pump. If it is a pump that is for example 50 gallons per hour or more it should be plenty enough. Especially if it is going downhill. I even think that it should be possible to siphon the water to that area without power from the pump or just by briefly running the pump to make it start siphoning. So lets say that we ruled out the pump, then the next most logical thing that I can come up with is that you drilled the holes in the pipe, and that some plastic chips from drilling the holes got stuck inside the pipe and that they are either blocking the pipe completely or just the next holes. Plastic chips can most certainly do that. Especially if there was already some debris inside the pipe for example if a spider made a home inside the pipe. One thing that you can try to do is to open up the very end from the pipe and to block the open drilled holes with some tape, and to give the pipe a good flush with a pressurized hose or with the pump and to pick the drilled holes that might be blocked with a sharp item while you are flushing the pipe. And if you want to be sure if it was plastic debris you can put a cloth at the open end of the pipe while you are flushing the pipe so that the cloth will catch any possible debris. If it is still clogged after the initial flush then try flushing from the other end, preferable with another hose that you can bring to the very end, otherwise you have to drag the end back to your source of water. But by trying to pump water from the very end of the pipe you can test for sure if the pipe is blocked or not. And that might also be enough to unclog the pipe. If it is stil blocked after you tried all the above then you can find out where it is blocked by filling the pipe with boiling water so that you can feel where the pipe is still cold, and then you can cut it there, unclog the clogged section, and reconnect the unclogged section with a cheap coupler. So there is always a fix. If you have an air compressor you can also try to blow out the pipe from either end, and from each of the holes that you drilled. I hope that I was able to help you. 👍

Спасибо,очень познавательное видео!

You're doing it wrong.... You raise it too high, twist your hips too much, and carry an oversized scythe. You're supposed to use a rocking motion on your feet, swing with your elbows. The scythe needs to be sharp as well so it glides without needing too much momentum.

All that vegetation in your backyard looks like a great source for beginning a compost pile just by keeping it trim. lol Good video. I like your method of using what you have; it's how nature would do it. One gardener said (paraphrased) 'In nature, the tree or plant gets to keep what it produced and in turn feeds it for the next year. But in gardening, the gardener takes all the produce and the plants don't get a nutrient feed from the leftovers, so it has to be replenished." He also used dried leaves under compost.

Thanks for the video. What a luxury it would be to just have a 20 yard truck deliver some perfectly made compost to the farm! We have to make our own as well. We do have a source of wood chips, so we are setting up our animal systems, (chicken, sheep, and guinea pigs) to produce compost from the wood chips. I would love to hear your ideas about making a good third world seed starting mix.

Amen.

Goodday reader. Absolutely the correct video to learn from. Tomorrow I will be using my scythe for the first time. Specially handmade by an able craftsmen, as it was not possible to buy one in South South Africa. I use it to keep my apiary clean. Cobus🐳

Truly wise words sir. I wish everybody could envelope and live the permaculture lifestyle. The happiness I see from people that share their abundance is something truly different than someone “sharing” out of a felt obligation or not from the heart so to speak, so much so that I wish humanity on a whole could be more empathic to how our selves actions can affect someone else’s happiness or well being in negative ways. ( I also think people on a whole should stop letting things bother them that are outside their bubbles of influence, if it ain’t about you don’t make it about you). Anyway good words sir. Words for happier people in all ways.🐆🌵

Directing the surplus at earth care and people care, for the win! Well said! Thank you.

Thank you for every word! ❤

Need more movement from the hips and less in the arms; and less twisting the in the back. Ok for technical work but will lead to injury if used for long periods.

your use of different tools is something a lot of people never learn. knowing when to switch tools is huge. much like knowing when to sharpen. it saves you time and wear on yourself and your tools in the long run. i like continental scythes for clearing softer areas but i love my American railroad scythe for really woody bushy areas. the nibs can be quickly adjusted to give a comfortable grip on varied slopes. the blade is very robust and the snath is pretty heavy giving it a lot of inertia to cut through saplings and bushes. you don't peen those blades because they are heat treated and hold up well against woody materials like bushes and saplings. it takes a lot of heavy work before i need to touch up the blade again. a cordless angle grinder with a grinding bit gets it back to work in a minute or so when there is damage. in an area that is mostly softer grasses and reeds i'll stick to a continental scythe and a blade hoe for uprooting or chopping down woody plants. if it's half woody or more i usually swap to the American scythe. i've had to clear acres of blackberry before and the American scythe did a heck of a job there. they are usually pretty cheap if you're in an area where the railroad ran and was cleared with scythes.

Nice!! Just getting my peening anvil and hammer start next week, I like that people use different techniques for this, some hammer straight on and you do the pulling technique :D

Interesting. I know about a technique called air layering, where you scrape some bark from a branch, and then you put some soil around it which is wrapped around the branch with a plastic container or a plastic bag. And then the branch develops new roots, and after a while you can cut the branch with the roots and plant it. And what you cut away from the original tree will grow back. I think that it can be done with every tree. But this grass develops new roots in mid air, and I did not know that plants can do that. As always thank for sharing and teaching me something new. 👍

I rotate at the torso to keep everything else square. Is much easier and less stress...

The cold treatment is called seed stratification. And it is true for many seeds. There are also seeds that have a good chance to germinate without the cold treatment, but research showed that on average those same seeds germinate and grow better after stratification. And of course there are also seeds that do not need it at all. A while ago I did read a scientific paper about the stratification from a certain variety of oak seeds. The paper showed a lot more information, for example about the duration of stratification and if that made any difference at all, but I forgot half of it. It was just to fulfill my curiosity, and it was not a necessity for me to remember all the information to the last detail. But people who want to know more about it can look for seed stratification. Thanks for sharing👍

Хочу вам дати добру пораду. Коли ви закоситесь в піньок або кущь. І не можете дістати косу. Переступіть через косовище ( держак) правою ногою і легенько бийте пятою, по держаку.

This particular shovel is very short. Your back is going to ache sooner or later because of it, no matter what.

Your story started a bit sad but it also made me smile, that is for sure. Your videos are always interesting. And I am always learning something new. 👍

Very good experiment and interesting video. Here are some tips to make your work more easy: Working a dry soil with a broadfork is a real mess. If you can water the soil day 1, day 2 and day 3 then broadforking on day 4, it should be very more easy. If you break the soil superficially at a depth of about 2 inches (5 cm) before watering, it will improve the water infiltation and prevent runoff. I woud use the broadfork perpendicularly to the slope to maximize the water infiltration surface. To break clumbs i'm successively using a garden fork, a garden claw and a rake with sharp teeth. These tools are very lighter than the crowbar. Compost is also helping to decrease soil acidity while providing nutriments to the grass, improving water retention and soil structure. The compost mixes very well with the soil by making a back and forth movement with a garden claw. Seaweed lime is also a good alternative if available in your country.

I know this tool, my father had one, and I used it as well. At some point in time I lost the tool, so to see this video brought back memories. I know that swinging it makes cutting weeds or grass with this tool a lot easier. Like you said, the movement has to come from the hips. And swinging the tool from right to left gives the blade some speed, and that makes it much easier to cut the weeds or gras compared to when you just want to pull the blade. Inertia from right to left is the key with this tool. That is why the blade starts very pointy, and it increasingly becomes wider towards the base from the tool. That way the sharp edge from the blade will always get in contact with the gras or weeds when you swing the blade from right to left. And after each swing you have to make a step forward. So the blade is always swinging at the same distance from your body. You can only cut the next row of gras or weeds by making the next step. And it is also very important to keep it sharp. It needs to be really sharp. It even needs to be sharpened regularly while you are using it, otherwise the tool is very difficult to use. 👍

That was a lot of hard work. I am very curious for the result and looking forward to see the update.

1. If you shape the tree and prune it properly you can actually get tree hay eaiser. There's et shapes that both native americans used and other folks used. 2. you can dry tree hay we started dying azolla, duckweed, and tree hay out of direct sunlight in completely covered by black shade. It retains it color and they are happier with it. 3. Mold :( We are in cali which most of the time is dry but has been in weird downfall lately (not mad at it we need the rain) But we completely dry out our tree hay and azolla, duckweed. (sometimes we chip it and put it into tight compressed bricks then starve the bricks of oxygen. you can also add some enyzems and turn it into a treehay sauerkraut and ferment it. that Silage is low key one of the things that I want to get more into but it doesn't work as well on azolla and duckweed. Just the tree hay. But you pretty much put only those fresh leaves and sticks. The green sticks and they eat the whole thing. You can mix in some straw as well if you want to.

Привіт. Дивлюсь вас з України. Українці це нащядки скифів. Скифи задовго до європейців були землеробами. І користувались цім інструментом. В вас гарна робота. Особисто я розрізняю клепання коси на три варіанта. 1,- молода травичка. Клепаю приблизно так як ви. 2. Ліне сіно. Наклеп роблю ширше ( глчнець після удару молотка) міліметрів 6-8 до ріжощії кромки. Ну і ружущю кромку також. 3- "на хліб" це на жнева. ( Сухостій) Розбиваю до стану мікро пилки. Щомь схоже на серп.. Та зараз в нас війна. Ми миррна нація. І довели свої мирні наміри, відмовившись від ядерної зброї. Війна закінчиться і будем знов хазяйнувати. Вам здоровья і наснаги...

I love experiments, so I am looking forward to see how the different grasses are going to do. 👍

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