I was a blacksmith in England, in the 70's making a variety of things from coal mine weight rods, old fashion 'Beam engine' chain for a museum, flight bars for lorry tie down chains and of course the small things like brick chisels, garden hoes, doorstep foot scrapers and wrought iron brackets for hanging plants on. Extremely satisfying work. I would have loved to lean from Oskar. Fascinating video, thanks for posting.
Oh man. 18:50 We used to have one of these whetstones when I was a kid. I'd help my dad and grandpa in the same way by turning it. I actually found it a lot of fun and would often play with it even if there was no need of sharpening anything. My dad had to stop me from turning it so fast it jumped out of its grooves and broke. Same things were sharpened too. Axes, knives and scythes. This video sure brings me back. And I'm not even that old ;P
i wish there was a channel just for traditional crafts like this. more like this from all over europe you could look into "HANDS" is a unique, multi-award winning series of thirty-seven documentaries on Irish crafts. Made by the renowned filmmaking team, David and Sally Shaw-Smith, it was originally produced for Irish television
Thank you for mentioning this. I had never heard of it and I was dying for more traditional craft stuff. i am an aspiring blacksmith and these videos help me to understand my craft and my heritage. I am both Norwegian and Irish.
To you all, most of these videos are taken from The Norwegian National Library. They also have a RU-vid channel called Nasjonalbiblioteket. Check them out!
I used a handmade scythe from Austria to help keep the weeds under control on my 25-acre farm in the Ozarks and they are much faster than wrestling with a giant weed eater contraption.
Translating this must've been very difficult, not only is there a lot of technical terms in here, but technical terms in a pretty specific dialect. Well done.
I would assume so too. I speak Norwegian as well, which is how I knew that the original audio is in a specific regional dialect, using a lot of old terms not widely known.
The video is taken from the national library. This is made for TV back in the day. Probably NRK, unless it was specifically made for the national library, in which case both state owned institutions would have no issues with resources to ask a local what a word means if they don't already have the best people working on the subtitling.
With practice it becomes easier. The trick to it is to control it while using the weight of the head at the same time. You do not need to hit all that hard.
The ole timer did not peen in the blade. Wonder why? Good video. Thank you for downloading it so the whole world could see how it was done in them old days.
No machine powered hammer for this smith. He's banging that steel with a big old hammer. "The smith, a mighty man is he, With large and sinewy hands; And the muscles of his brawny arms Are strong as iron bands."
Interesting how it's a very short scythe, I imagine that if you were to cut grass or something else for a long while you'd get a lot of back pain from being hunched over like at 20:52
It all depends on what kind of terrain you're working wit., If it's uneven, it's better to use a shorter scythe and a longer one for even terrain like when scything wheat or something.
The original video from Nasjonalbiblioteket requires attribution as this is released as Creative Commons BY license. ru-vid.com/video/%D0%B2%D0%B8%D0%B4%D0%B5%D0%BE-AxOVfXqbtro.html
Big difference between today’s craftsman and yesterday’s, the old timers made it look easy and did no extra work to make his job look harder. Today’s would do extra to make it look more difficult to everyone.
Interesting video, though this scythe looks a bit primitive comparing to these ones we used in Poland. Our scythes had better quality mounting and additional handle.
Hehe. Klarte meg ganske bra selv, men "tjø" eller "kjø" eller hva fankern det er han sier aner jeg fortsatt ikke hva egentlig er. Bladet? Han sier jo bladet av og til uansett. Emnet? Gud veit.
