[FL&WVMIKE]

We don't want to lose these oldtimer's wisdom, for sure !
When I was first out of high school, I got a job with the State Road Commission, working at a roadside park.
One of the jobs was to mow the river bank with cicles, this was before weedeaters. My partner, a man of 67 years of age, was mowing circles around me. I could not understand how this "old" man could do so much better than a strong, young man. He let me work for quite a while before he taught me the secret. I was swinging my cicle like a baseball bat trying to kill that tall grass ! He taught me to lift the tool and just let the weight of it, cut the grass. I lasted much longer, then. I was a city boy, after all.
MIKE (mikeburch)