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A hand tool for cutting grass
Posted: Mon Mar 19, 2018 3:45 pm
by LibraryLady2
What do you call this tool?
Here is a survey showing all the names that the tool is called.
http://dare.wisc.edu/survey-results/1965-1970/farming/l37We call it a yo-yo.
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Re: A hand tool for cutting grass
Posted: Mon Mar 19, 2018 5:54 pm
by jellowrestling
Grass scythe is what we always called.
Re: A hand tool for cutting grass
Posted: Mon Mar 19, 2018 6:12 pm
by Sangersteve
Ankle biter, we said Yoyo
Re: A hand tool for cutting grass
Posted: Mon Mar 19, 2018 7:07 pm
by grouchy
They were also called idiot sticks.
Re: A hand tool for cutting grass
Posted: Mon Mar 19, 2018 9:32 pm
by Red Oak
A Yoyo, and a &@$(*><)@#%#
Re: A hand tool for cutting grass
Posted: Tue Mar 20, 2018 7:10 am
by grouchy
Red Oak wrote:A Yoyo, and a &@$(*><)@#%#
Re: A hand tool for cutting grass
Posted: Tue Mar 20, 2018 1:04 pm
by mayhem
sling blade (S Appalachian if that means much)
Re: A hand tool for cutting grass
Posted: Tue Mar 20, 2018 9:19 pm
by PlanoSooner
I seen Jesse Dixon layin' on top of her, hmm. He was havin' his way with her. Hmm. Well, I just seen red. I picked up a Kaiser Blade that was sittin' there by the screen door. Some folks call it a Sling Blade, I call it a Kaiser Blade. It's kindly a wood handle, kind of like an axe handle. With a long blade on it shaped kinda like a bananer. Mhm. Sharp on one edge, and dull on the other. Mhm. It's what the highway boys use to cut down weeds and whatnot. Well, I went in there, in the house, and I hit Jesse Dixon upside the head with it, knocked him off my mother, mhm. I reckon that didn't quite satisfy me. So I hit him again with it in the neck, the sharp edge, and just plumb near cut his head off, killed him. My mother she jumped up and started hollerin' "What'd you kill Jesse fur? What'd you kill Jesse fur?" Well... come to find out I don't think my mother minded what Jesse was a-doin' to her. I reckon that made me madder that what Jesse'd made me. So I take the Kaiser Blade, some folks call it a Sling Blade, I call it a Kaiser Blade, and I hit my mother upside the head with it. Killed her.
Re: A hand tool for cutting grass
Posted: Wed Mar 21, 2018 7:17 am
by grouchy
PlanoSooner wrote:I seen Jesse Dixon layin' on top of her, hmm. He was havin' his way with her. Hmm. Well, I just seen red. I picked up a Kaiser Blade that was sittin' there by the screen door. Some folks call it a Sling Blade, I call it a Kaiser Blade. It's kindly a wood handle, kind of like an axe handle. With a long blade on it shaped kinda like a bananer. Mhm. Sharp on one edge, and dull on the other. Mhm. It's what the highway boys use to cut down weeds and whatnot. Well, I went in there, in the house, and I hit Jesse Dixon upside the head with it, knocked him off my mother, mhm. I reckon that didn't quite satisfy me. So I hit him again with it in the neck, the sharp edge, and just plumb near cut his head off, killed him. My mother she jumped up and started hollerin' "What'd you kill Jesse fur? What'd you kill Jesse fur?" Well... come to find out I don't think my mother minded what Jesse was a-doin' to her. I reckon that made me madder that what Jesse'd made me. So I take the Kaiser Blade, some folks call it a Sling Blade, I call it a Kaiser Blade, and I hit my mother upside the head with it. Killed her.
Ok Billy Bob.