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Green robotic electronic grass mows a lawn next to bushes. The history of the lawn mower is really the history of cutting grass, and that starts with a scythe. In roughly 200 years we’ve gone from ...

Scything, the traditional method of cutting vegetation using a shaped razor-sharp blade on a long handle, is undergoing something of a revival in Oxfordshire. Wielding a scythe has a magical quality: ...

That lawn mower you use to cut your grass has been centuries in the making. Yes, really. The history of the lawn mower is really the history of cutting grass, and that starts with a scythe. The sound ...

Perhaps not every gardener will be able to wield a scythe with the sex appeal of Poldark hunk Aidan Turner. But we should certainly consider ditching our lawnmowers for the ‘extraordinarily effective’ ...

MOSCOW (Reuters) - Competitors sharpened their scythes and raced off across a Russian field, hoping to make the cut in the annual mowing competition in the town of Arti. Men had to sweep their way ...

The long paper-wrapped parcel that arrived in the post was quickly dubbed the Nimbus 2000. Inside wasn’t a magical flying machine but a pretty special mowing one. At the end of this no-mow summer ...