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Mowing with a scythe is a skilled task that takes time to learn fully. Long-bladed scythes, typically around 90 centimetres (35 in) (such as in the example below) and suitable for mowing grass or wheat, are harder to use at first; consequently, beginners usually start on shorter blades, generally 70 centimetres (28 in) or less.
This composition is among Homer's simplest, showing the veteran as the sole figure in a field of grain, holding a scythe. [4] The only pieces of evidence that the figure is a Civil War veteran are the jacket and canteen in the lower right hand corner, in the downed wheat. [5]
"The Scythe" is a short story by American author Ray Bradbury. It was originally published in the July 1943 issue of Weird Tales . It was first collected in Bradbury's anthology Dark Carnival and later collected, in revised form, in The October Country and The Stories of Ray Bradbury .
Some wheat headers, called "draper" headers, use a fabric or rubber apron instead of a cross auger. Draper headers allow faster feeding than cross augers, leading to higher throughputs due to lower power requirements. On many farms, platform headers are used to cut wheat, instead of separate wheat headers, so as to reduce overall costs.
Wheat sheaves near King's Somborne.Here the individual sheaves have been put together into a stook ("stooked") to dry. A sheaf of grain on a plaque Sheafing machine. A sheaf (/ ʃ iː f /; pl.: sheaves) is a bunch of cereal-crop stems bound together after reaping, traditionally by sickle, later by scythe or, after its introduction in 1872, by a mechanical reaper-binder.
A grain flail. Through much of the important history of agriculture, threshing was time-consuming and usually laborious, with a bushel of wheat taking about an hour. [2] In the late 18th century, before threshing was mechanized, [3] about one-quarter of agricultural labor was devoted to it.
Harpe, a Greek or Roman long sickle or scythe; Kama, a Japanese and Okinawan tool used like a bill hook, though shaped more like a small scythe, also used as a weapon in some martial arts; Kudi, an Indonesian billhook-axe hybrid, used as tool as well as weapon; Linoleum knife; Machete; Scythe; Sickle, the archetypal forerunner of the scythe
On the Iberian Peninsula, cutting blades found on the bottom part of the threshing board are arranged on end and in rows roughly parallel to the direction of threshing. In contrast, the mogag and mowrej found to the Middle East have circular holes (made with a special short, wide drill ) into which are pressed small round, semicircular stones ...