I want to buy something my great-grandfather used to have when I was little, but I don’t know what it’s called. Help?
It had a long handle like a broom or shovel, and it ended in a long, narrow blade of maybe 12" long by 2" wide that was perpendicular to the handle (L-shaped, basically) with teeth along one side of the blade. To use this tool you’d swing it at long grass or whatever to shear it, sort of like a people-powered weedwacker.
What is it called?
Thanks!
How about a weed cutter
Yeah, or a type of grass whip. The blade specs sound too small to be a scythe. All the scythes I’ve seen have had curved blades at least three or four feet long, and not teethed.
I immediately thought “grass whip” too
Is it one of these?
weed wacker or grass whip.
cross training for golf or polo depending on its design.
Some folks call it a sling blade, I call it a Kaiser blade. Hrmm, hmm.
Definitely a grass whip. Thanks, folks!
Another, possibly regional and definitely old fashioned name, is a lively lad.
My father had one of those, he would refer to it as an “Air cooled McCormick” as in McCormick reaper.
Silly I know, but seeing that picture brought back memories and made me think of my dad. Thanks. 
Beat me to it.
I meant this quote.
