Gasoline engines are mainly used because they're higher status, not because they're at all economical. http://twistedsifter.com/videos/scythe-vs-brush-cutter/ …
@Alrenous there's a slight cultural distance here. That was the normal device for mowing lawns when I grew up. (The scythe was for overgrown
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@anomalyuk So, it isn't a normal device anymore? -
@Alrenous these days they're commonly electric. It was the choice of woodcut that made it look like a historical curiosity. -
@anomalyuk I wanted a Wikipedia picture and the modern one was monstrously tasteless. -
@Alrenous in any case, that is what replaced scythes for domestic purposes. Not sure about agriculture (horse-drawn reaping machine? ) -
@Alrenous apparently the patent lawsuits over reaping machines involved Abraham Lincoln against his future secretary of war Edwin Stanton -
@anomalyuk I wonder if that's secretly part of a pattern.
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