It's an exercise opportunity, or a take-a-break opportunity, and to me it looks cool, you can mow your lawn with a European scythe (do a couple of swaths a day) and it's not boring, each cut taking some precise control.
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foreground is a drainage ditch, with sculpted longer grass marking the dog's do-not-cross-without-permission line)pictorial overkill :
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got the scythe at
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a ``European'' style made of softer metal that you can keep razor sharp, which is necessary for lawn grass.Normally you get rid of the windrow after you've done the day's cutting with a leaf sweeper and a few trips to the back fence to add to the enormous haystack (how big will it get?).
In the spring I have to start over at the front before I get done in the back, but you can't stall a scythe with long grass so it doesn't matter much.
It's not hard work and is a pleasant way to spend an hour.