Two Blade Scythe Set – Smallholdings, Nature Reserves, Extensive Gardens
£236.00 – £289.00
This set is ideal if you are planning to do a mix of mowing
A two blade set gives you greater flexibility, with each blade being suited to different mowing conditions.
Scroll down for help deciding which options to select.
Description
A two blade set gives you greater flexibility.
One blade can be kept well peened for the grass mowing and the other maintained with a stronger edge for the rougher stuff like weeds, brambles and bracken.
This set combines a Meadow Blade with an Ditch OR a Bush blade
The Meadow blade is kept in good condition for mowing grass, lawns and meadows.
The Ditch blade will manage rough work like young brambles and bracken, but can also be used for trimming narrow areas, paths, rough grass or round trees.
The stronger Bush blade is a better pair if the majority of your none-grass mowing is really rough or overgrown (eg brambles, bracken, saplings).
Can’t Decide on a pairing?
A Profisense 75cm blade and a Styria 65cm or Falci 187 55cm blade is a good starting place for a lot of people.
FAQs
Most people can mow well with the 75cm Profisense blade, given an open situation with at least 6ft of width to mow in.
In more confined areas, or to mow heavier and tangled grass, a 65cm Profisense blade is more appropriate.
Ditch blades
The ditch-type blade will manage rough work like young brambles and bracken, but can also be used for trimming narrow areas, paths, rough grass or round trees.
Styria 65cm or 55cm
The Styria blade is a versatile ditch blade.
Whilst capable of mowing grass in it’s own right, when paired with a grass blade it is useful for managing larger areas of weed control eg bracken, dock, rush, young brambles.
The 65cm Styria will cover more area in a given time. The 55cm Styria is useful in more confined circumstances eg paths less than 3-4ft in width, areas with a lot of obstacles.
Falci 187 55cm
The 55cm Falci 187 is useful in more confined circumstances eg paths less than 3-4ft in width, areas with a lot of obstacles.
It is a good choice if you want a shorter blade to cover a mix of grassy trimming work and some rougher mowing (eg docks, young bracken, the odd young bramble (>1 year old))
The nature of the Falci blade tensioning means it needs to be used with care in areas where you might accidently hit hard objects eg concrete path edging.
Bush Blades
Bush blades are tough blades only suitable for rough work like bracken and brambles. With care they can be used on young saplings/suckers and woody plants such as raspberry canes.
Falci Bear
The Falci Bear is a tough blade that is suitable for mowing tough weeds, bracken, bramble and woody plants such as raspberry canes and young tree suckers.
The Bear is a good choice if you have a lot of bracken to mow or a large area of other weeds to control.
Be aware – this blade is stronger then your snath! Make sure the hafting angle is properly set and the clamp is tight before you start to mow and check it frequently as you work.
Fux Bush Blade 40cm
Similarly to the Bear, the Fux Bush Blade is a pure tough work blade, so a suitable choice if that’s the majority of the work you’ll want out of your second blade.
The Fux Bush blade is a good choice if you have a small area to control or you want to target individual stems. It’s short length means it puts less strain on the snath but care is still needed in use.
Each kit contains
- Two Scythe Blades
- An adjustable wooden snath (inc movable hand grips, clamp and wedge)
- A whetstone holder (for carrying the sharpening stone whilst out scything)
- A natural Sharpening Stone (for regular sharpening of blade when scything)
- A Peening Jig (What is Peening?)
- A Garryflex block (for cleaning the blade prior to peening)
- An artificial Stone: Carborundum (for use after jig peening)
- A Quick Set up Guide
Snaths are available in four lengths. The length needed depends on your height
Your Height———Snath Number
Less then 5ft ———-Size 1 (small)
5ft – 5ft 10————-Size 2 (medium)
5ft 8 – 6ft 4————Size 3 (long)
6ft 2 and taller——–Size 4 (extra-long)
Each size of snath has adjustable handle positions so it can be fine tuned to suit your height and mowing style.
If you are at the edge of the height range you may not be sure which snath length to choose.
If your legs are long in proportion to your body length you should choose the longer snath. If they are short in proportion to your body length choose the shorter snath. This should give you the most useful range of adjustment of the handle positions.
La Saurat
As standard, we recommend a La Saurat sharpening stone as we find this stone offers a good compromise – it is easy for a beginner to use, yet is fine enough that it does not wear away the peened edge too quickly.
Rozutec
As you gain experience with sharpening the finer Rozutec stone will enable you to achieve a good sharp edge whilst removing even less metal, increasing the length of time a peened edge will last.
We offer a choice of two jigs with our sets.
Standard Peening Jig
If you end up doing a lot of peening you may, in the future, want to move onto a Fux deluxe jig or freehand peening with an anvil.
Fux Deluxe Peening Jig
It is a good choice if you expect to stick with jig peening over your scything career or you will do a lot of peening (multiple blades, many times a year).
It is best used to achieve a finer, grass-mowing edge. Blades need to be peened regularly for this jig to work most effectively.
Each set comes with a printed copy of our Quick Set Up Guide.
Additional instructional books you can add to your set:
Learn to Scythe by Steve Tomlin
We highly recommend adding this comprehensive instruction book to your scythe set. It is clear, informative and easy to read. It’s the next best thing to going on a scythe course!
£10.50Add to basket
Managing Grass with a Scythe by Simon Fairlie.
£8.00Add to basket
All new blades should have the lacquer cleaned off the cutting edge to prevent it clogging the sharpening stone. See this guide for further details.