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Tag Archives: cumbria
Scythe Course dates 2012
My course dates and prices for 2012 are finally set, more details on the courses page: Learn to Mow with an Austrian Scythe 26 May, 30 June, 9 Sept 2012 – £60 Scythe Improvers 11 Aug – £70 Improve your … Continue reading
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Tagged beginners, course, cumbria, improve, learn to mow, learn to scythe, north west, peening, Scotland, scythe, workshop
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Ransome's lawn mower
Here is the sentence you thought you’d never read on scytherspace: I’ve got myself a lawn mower. This though, is no ordinary mower, it’s a Ransome’s Ajax push mower from the 1960’s with 12″ wide cutters, solid wood rollers and … Continue reading
Posted in Scytherspace, tools
Tagged cumbria, garden, hay, lawn, meadow, mower, push mower, ransomes ajax, scythe, training
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Bowl carving one-to-one workshop
A great day today teaching Sam Robinson on a one-to-one workshop at Sprint Mill. Sam is a current apprentice on the Bill Hogarth Apprenticeship scheme, now in his second year. We’d been talking about various crafts a couple of weeks … Continue reading
Posted in carved bowls, greenwood courses, SteveTomlinCrafts
Tagged adze, apprenticeship, Bill Hogarth, Bill Hogarth apprentice, bowl carving, carving, coppice association, course, cumbria, green wood, green woodwork, greenwood, learn, one to one, private tuition, sprint mill, trough, workshop
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Leela's rake
Last October I met Miss Kathloon Peart from Bishop Auckland who told me how she’d received her first hayrake when only 3 years old and had been making hay on her farm for the 50-something years since then. So I … Continue reading
Posted in SteveTomlinCrafts, wooden rakes
Tagged cumbria, hay rakes, haybridge nature reserve, hayrake, rake, scythe, wooden
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Dawn mowing at Brantwood
Sally Beamish, Estate Manager at Brantwood, the former home of John Ruskin and perhaps the most idyllic house in the Lake District, invited the north-west scything group to a dawn mow of a lakeside haymeadow which is at present cut … Continue reading
Posted in scythe festivals & events, Scytherspace
Tagged brantwood, cumbria, meadow, scythe
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Cumbria Scythe Weekend – Team Mowing
The Sunday of our Cumbria Scythe Weekend was a group mowing day for members of the ‘North West Mowing Group’. This is mostly folk who met when I was teaching at the Scythe Festival in Elterwater last July. We meet … Continue reading
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Tagged cumbria, hay making, mowing, north west, scythe festival, team, yellow rattle
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Mowing Course at Sprint Mill
On Sunday I ran the first of my mowing courses at Sprint Mill near Kendal in Cumbria. The course is designed to introduce people to mowing with a scythe or provide a refresher for those who would like to be … Continue reading
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Tagged course, cumbria, learn to mow, learn to scythe, mowing, orchard, scythe, sprint mill
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Scythe weekend 2-3 July 2011
Following the fantastic response to my ‘Mowing with an Austrian Scythe’ course this weekend, I have added an extra date on Saturday 2nd July 2011. This will be again at the wonderful Sprint Mill near Kendal, Cumbria. This will be … Continue reading
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Tagged cumbria, learn to mow, learn to scythe, scythe, sprint mill
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Beginners' course fully booked
My first course of the year, for beginners (and folk wanting a refresher) is now fully booked. There’s an interesting mix of people, from those who already have a scythe but are struggling to get the best from it, to … Continue reading
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Tagged beginners, course, cumbria, learn to mow, learn to scythe, mowing, scythe
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