This is one of those times, when reading Tooltalk, that I feel like I have been living on another planet all of these years. I have owned several sythes. I have successfully sythed twenty or thirty feet of hay in a field before my shoulders were yelling for mercy. I have owned several of the little wrenches and never knew their purpose. Still, after all these years of farm auctions, tractor shows, threshing bees and tool flea markets I had never heard of a snath. I suppose the next logical thing to happen will be Rusty casually informing us that it was patented in 1814 by Sir Reginald Snath in Stubblefield England. My ignorance never ceases to astound me.