Board Thread:Suggestions forum/@comment-26322120-20160904213915/@comment-26553378-20160908172258

scythes had handles, i have used one, they have a long pole with a blade on one end, and a handle in the middle and almost opposite end as the blade.

also this could work on reed-like crops, like reeds cane or corn, and it will chop it down to 1 block tall (wont do corn until all blocks above the first have corn (if it has only 1 block above, but that block has corn it would still harvest))