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scythe supply helps restore a tradition scythe supply select a page home about us blades sickles snaths stones equipment outfits rakes bookstore articles workshops videos blog links info testimonials featured photo gallery order form gift certificates contact us scythe supply helps restore a tradition by edward french there was never a sound beside the wood but one and that was my long scythe whispering to the ground the poet robert frost observed in his poem mowing the quiet whispering the ease of motion the rhythm in which one forgets worldly cares and loses oneself in the repetitive movements are all attractions of the tool with the long curving blade used for mowing grass or clearing land of bushes a company in perry scythe supply has been helping the scythe make a comeback selling a european style scythe that is light thin and strong the company was begun in 2001 by the late elliot fishbein and is now carried on by his partner carol bryan fishbein who had a love of hand tools always had mowed using an old american scythe with an s shaped handle but after he began doing more vegetable farming when he and bryan moved from eastport to perry he heard about a company in tennessee that sold the european style scythe fishbein had been a sign maker first carving and then painting them and then using computer generated lettering for boats and race cars but when he saw a scythe business for sale on ebay he decided he would start a new own business and learned how to make scythes and how to develop a website for scythe supply the most intriguing thing about him was the world was anew bryan recalls in an article he wrote for mother earth news fishbein enthusiastically observed the scythe is simply the most efficient and graceful tool for mowing he had a good time doing it i couldn t help being affected by it she remembers i watched him become so enthralled and excited after fishbein was killed in a car accident in 2002 bryan says that because the business was so important to him initially i wanted to continue it because it was helping to keep elliot alive now bryan observes we re stewards of this it has a life of its own the energy of this is going on whether i want it to or not the small company sells scythes with three types of blades grass ditch and bush which can cut through small saplings the blades are obtained from an austrian company that is nearly 500 years old and the white ash for the handles or snaths is obtained from peavey manufacturing in eddington with holden cabinet and millwork in east holden milling them kingfield wood products makes the grips for the handles at bryan s shore road farm the snaths are customized with customers providing measurements for height hip to ground and cubit or the tip of their middle finger to the back of their elbow the measurements determine the length of the snath and the placement of the grips the snath is truly made in maine bryan points out it s maine grown maine made and maine finished while bryan and richard scott of pembroke customize and make the finished snaths diane cashore of robbinston provides quality control for scythe supply s imports including the sharpening equipment from the czech republic rafi hopkins of eastport is the computer and website consultant for the company about 70 of their orders come through their website www scythesupply com and about 80 of their customers are first time users to help them learn how to mow they encourage customers to purchase a package of blade snath sharpening equipment and the scythe book scythe supply ships orders to people throughout the u s and canada and as far as australia and new zealand unlike noisy heavy weed whackers that break down the scythe is quiet and efficient bryan points out in mowing contests between weed whackers and scythes the scythe usually wins it also helps in breaking away from this culture s petroleum dependency it runs on breakfast that s a richard saying bryan says referring to scott s love for the tool and she notes that people who have started mowing with a scythe say i can hear the birds sing now bryan says that a good core of people in the area now enjoy mowing as the tradition is passed from generation to generation she mentions in particular young brennin and jade consalvi of perry who often help her scott was first introduced to using a scythe by the elder bill follis who when he was 80 showed the young eastport teenager how to mow but scott didn t pick it up again for 20 years when he began mowing hay for dairy goats he had on a small farm in east livermore after he moved back to the quoddy area in 1998 scott found out about fishbein s interest in scythes and he began working with scythe supply in 2001 it s amazing you can accomplish so much with so little effort he observes the efficiency of it is amazing there s a rhythm to it and once you get into that rhythm you can very easily lose yourself in the mowing says scott who will sometimes mow for six or eight hours at a time it almost becomes a metaphysical experience it gets right into your soul he pauses it touches something in you the poet frost evidently knew that meditative feeling of working in the fields his poem mowing ends with the lines the fact is the sweetest dream that labor knows my long scythe whispered and left the hay to make scythe supply helps restore a tradition by edward french originally appeared in the newspaper the quoddy tides 123 water st po box 213 eastport maine 04631 tel 207 853 4806 http www quoddytides com article copyright the quoddy tides 2008 back to articles back to home 4 23 01 4 23 25 scythe supply celebrates it s 25th anniversary back to top we accept copyright 2001 2026 scythe supply all rights reserved