Niwaki Herbaceous Sickle

Niwaki Herbaceous SickleIn Japan they apparently use a sickle for hand harvesting rice, but some bright spark at Niwaki realised that the same thing works just as well on herbaceous stuff and grasses over here. The serrated blade copes with tough, dry stalks: grab a handful, cut with a single, strong sawing action. So if you've got borders or pots of grasses or herbaceous plants, then the Niwaki Herbaceous Sickle could save you time and be a satisfying change from using your

That makes a great combination of sharpness

and that's a good thing as they have a lot of moving parts

lived in the Land Rover when green-laning and probably produced tons of kindling over the years for the wood burner

)  We run a wood burner through most of the winter and that axe gets used for making kindling - plus various light jobs around the garden

This is the latest version of Carhartts Detroit jacket

Sidebent refers to them having a blade that is offset from the middle of the finger rings - allowing the cutting blade to run flat on a surface

Previously both sizes of Opinel sharpening stone came from a quarry in Lombardy

they were originally sold as "Uncle Peter's Trowel" at various markets in the area

Never as tough as secateurs

The blade is 21cm long and the rule of thumb is that they will cut up to a 1/3 of there length -so 7cm

These are sized with the American workwear market in mind so

The plan will be to do another axe using skatewood in 2026