Does anyone remember cutting grass with safety razor blades?

[Millay]

Took my nan to lunch today and was talking about a ever ready 1912 i had picked up and she mentioned when she was 8 her dad brought home a new sickle for cutting the grass, the only difference with this was that it used old razorblades as the cutting edge.. I was kinda scepitcal till i found this:

http://blog.modernmechanix.com/2007/07/21/novel-use-for-old-razor-blades/

she would have been using this about 8 years after the patent date.

has anyone ever seen one?

ops spelling mistake in my post title

 

[pablo_h]

Wow.
I've never heard about anything like that.

ops spelling mistake in my post title

Just one?

 

[Jethro1984]

Just one?

 

[Millay]

Wow.
I've never heard about anything like that.


Just one?

Maybe there is 3 mistakes.. but hey whos counting

 

[ouch]

Fixed title- no more frass cutting.

 

[Walter Sobchak]

Maybe there is 3 mistakes.. but hey whos counting

I was wondering what the hell frass was.

Anyway, that thing is crazy! Thanks for posting it. I'd be a bit scared to use it I think.

 

[mretzloff]

That thing is awesome. I never knew about this. Thanks for the informative post.

 

[SavantStrike]

So, who else wants one?

 

[Mandrake]

That reminds me of....

 

[Millay]

Thank you ouch... it makes much more sense now.

 

[sol92258]

very cool....so, who wants to start a group buy?

 

[Sue]

Slingblade?
Sue

 

[pablo_h]

So, who else wants one?

Well if I was out there cutting grass with a sickle then maybe I would.
But I am not out there cutting grass with a sickle anyway.

Someone needs to invent a electric/petrol mower or combine harvester that uses old blades or something, no one does grass cutting by hand anymore.

edit: Ok, there are still push mowers out there, but they aren't sickles either

 

[Gruder]

I like it! Thanks for sharing.

 

[sparkchaser]

Your grass is Emo?

 

[pablo_h]

I'd love some emo grass. That's grass that cuts itself.

 

[tg16]

I never used safety razors, but I have been told the famous Louisiana prisons would sometimes have unruly inmates cut the grass with tweezers.

 

[kongjie]

I used a long scythe to cut tall grass when I was a kid. It was a tool that was probably 30 years old. I'm surprised that they made one with razor blades as it was pretty easy to sharpen with a file, if I recall. We also had smaller ones that were more severely curved, I believe.

My family was second generation Czech/Slovac/Polish (who knows really) and my uncle to this day calls a mattock a maticka. Not sure where that came from...

 

[TorzJohnson]

Wow, that's an amazing invention! Maybe somebody will invent something better for cutting grass one day, but I doubt it.

 

[Groundhog]

Slingblade?
Sue

Some folks call it a sling blade, I call it a kaiser blade. Hmm hmm.