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Small Plot Big Ideas

  • Joined May 2012
  • North Pennines, UK
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Help needed to identify this old garden implement
« on: September 06, 2013, 08:05:30 am »
I found this rusty old implement the other day and I'm trying to find out what it was used for.... does anyone have an idea?

It might be a specialised tool for some task that I can't figure out or I suppose it could be a home-made conversion of a "normal" garden fork to make it more suitable for another purpose?

There is no handle attached (that was long gone!), all I have is just the bit you can see in the picture

Scotsdumpy

  • Joined Jul 2012
Re: Help needed to identify this old garden implement
« Reply #1 on: September 06, 2013, 08:26:26 am »
I've got a couple of theses and I believe they were used for pulling off manure from a cart as the horse walkes acrss the field. The fore runner of a muck spreader.

Simon O

  • Joined Mar 2010
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Re: Help needed to identify this old garden implement
« Reply #2 on: September 06, 2013, 08:32:21 am »
Before I saw the second post I was imagining it might have been used for forking round the outside of some invasive perennial to cut its roots and stop spread, or for other types of root pruning - might be easier to use than a spade in that situation as less friction from the blade (!??)

hexhammeasure

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Re: Help needed to identify this old garden implement
« Reply #3 on: September 06, 2013, 08:43:46 am »
yep muck spreaders, they hold the muck as you pull the fork back out and then (in theory) it crumbles through
Ian

Simon O

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Re: Help needed to identify this old garden implement
« Reply #4 on: September 06, 2013, 08:48:16 am »
...oh well bang goes my theory!
 

doganjo

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Re: Help needed to identify this old garden implement
« Reply #5 on: September 06, 2013, 11:21:14 am »
I thought it was for digging up tatties so you didn't cut them in half when you speared them  :roflanim:
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