[philskin]

Hello everyone enjoying the weather I hope,the wife brought this home today she bought it at the carboot. I intend to use it for lifting potatoes but would love to know what it was originally made for .The neighbour says its a sugarbeet fork but I cant understand why the tines are so close for sugarbeet ,so im stuck thanks for looking     phil :?:                                                                                                                       [/IMG][/IMG]

[Gwiz]

wanna post a picture so we can have a look-see?

[philskin]

wanna post a picture so we can have a look-see?

                                                                                                                  now now gwiz be patient i was trying to turn the blasted pics around but i give up cheers

[Gwiz]

I often find giving up is the best course of action!

are the "buisness" ends of the tines Flat? or pointy

The tines are close together to avoid causing any damage to the "produce"
can be used for loading sugar beet, potatoes or anything really. we used to sell a lot of them years ago, they are still available, but for ther life of me I can't think of the name. I can look it up for you on tuesday, but I bet one of our clever members will tell you before then!

[dugless]

It looks like a hay fork, for putting hay into the horse troughs. but I could be wrong.

[philskin]

I often find giving up is the best course of action!

                                                                                                            I turn them around on photobucket but they still download on there sides ,give up weres me baccy

[philskin]

It looks like a hay fork, for putting hay into the horse troughs. but I could be wrong.

                                                                                                        I thought hay forks had less tines

[Aunt Sally]

It's on here Phil

http://www.endtimesreport.com/gardening.html

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Heavy duty potato fork

[agapanthus]

It's a Fen fork.....used for taking out weeds....duckweed etc., from the dykes in Lincolnshire. If it was a potato fork it would have rounded-off tines....so as not to spear the spuds!!

[philskin]

thank you aunt sally and agapanthus i thought that it wasnt for sugarbeet

[dorimower]

Hello,

 Or how about it being a Ballast Fork.:?:.....for shovelling ballast from a flat surface of a truck etc...
....by my reckoning the better quality Beet and Potato forks had round tines to prevent damage to beet/tateys and had "knobbles" on the end of the tines to help to prevent spiking...and used when shovelling Beet/Potatoes from a flat surface...

  The Potato fork name gets blurred because of there being a Potato fork with 4 flat fronted, "diamond" back tines which is for lifting (digging) potatoes and is brilliant for general garden work too....and then there is the Potato fork which is a many tined fork for loading potatoes.  

In reality other uses may fit...
We use a similar fork for loading Yew clippings when they are collected for processing...but its not really a Yew clipping fork  

All the best,
            "Dori"

[philskin]

I often find giving up is the best course of action!

are the "buisness" ends of the tines Flat? or pointy

The tines are close together to avoid causing any damage to the "produce"
can be used for loading sugar beet, potatoes or anything really. we used to sell a lot of them years ago, they are still available, but for ther life of me I can't think of the name. I can look it up for you on tuesday, but I bet one of our clever members will tell you before then!

                                                                                                                  the buisness ends are now blunt but they would off been pointy many moons ago

[PinkTequila]

It is a beet fork. Definately. What handle does it have and can you see any identifying name on it.

[PinkTequila]

It's on here Phil

http://www.endtimesreport.com/gardening.html

Scroll down.

Heavy duty potato fork

It doesn't call it a heavy duty potato fork it calls it a heavy duty digging fork and the one next to it is a potato fork.

[Aunt Sally]

It's on here Phil

http://www.endtimesreport.com/gardening.html

Scroll down.

Heavy duty potato fork

It doesn't call it a heavy duty potato fork it calls it a heavy duty digging fork and the one next to it is a potato fork.

The red one is the heavy duty digging fork !