Now that we are in the rainy season (and Hot), where the goats and cows are not, there are weed-eaters. What do animals and weed-eaters have in common?
We have seen a few lawn mowers in Swaziland. An old John Deer rider at the Nazarene Theological College and a few new 22 inch push gas mowers in a store. Because of the rocks there are many places where you can not use a lawn mower, but there are a lot of places you can.
What really puzzles us is that you can buy 2 of the gas lawn mowers for the price of one of their fancy weed-eaters.
In places where you can use a lawn mower, you can mow 3 times as fast as a good weed-eater. When we talk to the Swazi's about this they just shrug their shoulders.
Maybe it is because manual labor is so inexpensive. It will take 2 men at least 10 each to mow 1 and 1/2 acres and they get paid about $4 a day. Inexpensive labor wouldn't you say? No wonder people have very little.
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