Cloud Cottage Land

Learn Scything with Beth Tilston

This course will teach you everything you need to know about how to use the Austrian (Continental) scythe. From mowing technique to the dark art of peening, this course will get complete beginners started and iron out some issues that those who’ve started their scything journey may be having.

The course features:
- Putting the scythe together
- Health and safety
- Sharpening the scythe
- Mowing
- Finessing the set up
- Organising your mowing
- Peening with a jig

THE AWKWARD MONEY CONVERSATION [stares at shoes and blushes]: So folks, I’m offering this course as Pay What You Want because I want everyone to be able to access it. If times are tough, take it at at the lowest price with my blessing. If you have the means though, I think this course is worth more than £0.80/$0.99 (the lowest price Vimeo will let me charge). Here’s why:

- This video is my day course (for which I charge £100) simmered down slowly into 30 minutes of rich scything goodness. Everything I’ve learned in ten years of teaching is in here. It’s dense. It needs to be consumed in bite-sized chunks!

- This video is everything you need to pop out the other end a proficient scyther. You don’t have to cobble together bits from YouTube. You can download it to your tablet and take it out in the field. Truly, friends, I have thought about how you might use it.

- In the unlikely event that you don’t pop out the other end a competition-level mower (yes, there are competitions...), or if you just have a question, you can access my forums and I will do my best to answer you. [whistles “I’ll be there for yooou”]

I know that Pay What You Want sometimes makes people uncomfortable, so I’m suggesting a price of £25/$30 - but you can also pay less (or indeed more!)

Happy scything!

DISCLAIMER: Despite being a massive knife on a stick, if you follow the advice in this video, a scythe is much safer (and more pleasant) than other methods of cutting vegetation. That said, nothing is without its risks. This course represents current best practice in scythe teaching. If you choose to buy the course, you do so at your own risk and I don't accept any responsibility for any injury that may occur.