Jan’s challenge: to cut a hectare of grass – with a scythe

Jan’s latest video showing him testing a 120 centimeter long scythe blade has received hundreds of thousands of views.

On Tuesday, he took on a new challenge of his own making – to mow one hectare, the equivalent of two full-sized football pitches, of tall grass in one day. The location: a field outside Linköping.

Better than trimmers

The reasons are several, partly to focus on biological diversity – and partly to get the common man and woman to breathe new life into the classic agricultural and gardening tool.

– If you compare it to, for example, a trimmer or clearing saw, it is much faster, easier, cheaper and nicer if you can handle a scythe, says Jan Wester.

Hear more from Jan Wester, and see him mowing tall grass, in the video above.

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