HISTORIC 70 YEAR OLD SCYTHE RESTORATION | World War 2 Machine!

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• MR

  @MrSpirit99 · 2 years ago

  I found a restoration channel without artificially aged objects.

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• HA

  @Half_of_The_World · 2 years ago

  Old English machines were magnificent, they were ridiculously simple, and would outlive two and a half generations of your family

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• RO

  @roughandrrag · 2 years ago

  One minute in and I can already tell I do like this new style of narration.

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• DA

  @davidwacker1925 · 2 years ago

  British engineering at it's finest. A machine from a time when companies wanted to be remembered for the quality of their products.

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• 4A

  @4acrehome168 · 2 years ago

  That bronze gear is absolutely a work of art. I’d hang that on my wall

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• JA

  @jamesfield5346 · 6 months ago

  The integrity and pride in their craftsmanship has long been gone for the most part.  As they say, "they don't make them like they used to, to last."

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• IA

  @ianbates1312 · 2 years ago

  I used to use one of these Allen Scythes in the early 1970’s for Sedgefield District Council. These Allen Scythes take NO prisoners!! The longer the vegetation the more it loved it. They would go where the operator would be reluctant to follow!!

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• MA

  @MakinNBreakin · 2 years ago

  Now this is quality YouTube content.

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• RE

  @reelrapid · 2 years ago

  Great to see one again, I regularly used one to cut paths and swims on a lake in Suffolk UK in the 1960/70s when I was a water bailiff. There were extra blades you could add to make the cut twice as wide. The huge wheels made it perfect for rough ground.

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• MI

  @mickjames1609 · 1 year ago

  My step-father taught me how this worked and allowed me to steer it when we worked on the farm in the 60,s....

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• MA

  @madcapmartin1 · 2 years ago

  My Dad purchased one of these machines second hand in 1958 to make hay on our small farm in Lancashire. It was absolutely bomb proof  It never broke down... ever. and was still in use until 1984 with just annual maintenance. It was sold on to another small holding in Wigan and was still in use up till 1989 that I know of, It still may be going till this day..

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• HO

  @HorseMalone · 1 year ago

  The local gamekeeper used one of these to cut the perimeter of areas of heather that were to be burned on the grouse moor.<br>The knife had replacement serrated segments from a combine harvester as old heather is very tough.

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