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There's a story about the introduction of a scythe to a remote village in - I want to say - 90s or early 2000s, and the mayor thanking the charity for showing t

There's a story about the introduction of a scythe to a remote village in - I want to say - 90s or early 2000s, and the mayor thanking the charity for showing them this new invention, that really helped them during harvest. It's not like the place didn't have sticks or blades, but the combination isn't obvious. I saw it on a TIL on reddit, so take it with a grain of salt. Trying to google it now, but all results for queries containing the word "scythe" seems to be related to a board game.

dredmorbius 5y ago
There's Scythe Works Without Borders: https://scytheworks.ca/scythe-works-without-borders/ https://scytheworks.ca/scythe-works-without-borders/ They seem to be active in Nepal. There are other similar groups elsewhere. This DDG search turns up several: https://duckduckgo.com/?q=introducing+scythe+village+-game&ia=web https://duckduckgo.com/?q=introducing+scythe+village+-game&i... Including a Reddit thread: https://old.reddit.com/r/videos/comments/i14bak/oddly_mesmerizing_introducing_scythes_to_indian/ https://old.reddit.com/r/videos/comments/i14bak/oddly_mesmer...
JasonFruit 5y ago
It's not even that the combination isn't obvious; it's also that the orientation of the parts is touchy and makes the difference between "I could do this all day!" and "Can I please just hold the knife in my hands?"
Thlom 5y ago
For some reason I have a scythe in my shed. I've used it a couple of times when my lawn mower was dead after I came back from holiday and the grass and weeds were waist high. It's surprisingly efficient and easy to use as soon as you get the hang of it.