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Just snapped my garden fork, it had a fair innings at 10 years but regularly bent the tines.
Any recommendations for a good quality fork? I'd rather not pay silly money but don't mind paying for quality.
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My rather nice spade of 20 years was leant to the bike club kids for building a massive jump at Balqhidder quarry. It came back in two pieces.
The plastic and short spade, inherited when we opened the dump of a shed at our just purchased house, has lasted a couple of months use in the Sherrifmuir woods building berms. It's now split up the blade...
Fwiw, I plan on getting long handled spade and fork. I read somewhere that our short tools are because blacksmiths copied miners tools - which were deliberately short. As someone 1.8m tall, they are usually too short.
Spear & Jackson neverbend..on Amazon. Good price, great quality
Fork-in’ hell
Was the name of the hottest thing I’ve ever eaten.
A burger with ghost chillies from The Courthouse in Peebles.
@stevied- I'll check those out, thanks
@perchypanther- I do like a bit of spice so will bare that in mind if I venture up to Peebles.
If the spade or fork has a wood handle riveted to the business end, then cut or drill the rivet out, buy a new handle, screw it in place, and oil the wood, it’ll last another twenty-thirty years.
I’ve got on old fork of my step-dads, God knows how old it is, at least thirty years, maybe more. Anyway, he’d used it for something inappropriate, probably hoiking up big heavy paving slabs, and broken off one outer tang, and bent the opposite one, so I took a whizz-wheel to the bent tine, carved a new handle T-piece to replace the one that broke in two while I was using it, and now it’s the perfect tool for turning over my compost bin.
I use a bull dog long handled fork )and long handled spade.. once you get used to a slightly different technique the seem much kinder to my back..
Spear & Jackson neverbend..on Amazon. Good price, great quality
+1, screwfix also have them.
I was a serial spade bender and destroyer till I got that. Ive no idea what whitchcraft they use to make it but Ive wedged the tip between a concrete foundation and a tree root and stood on the handle and the foundation moved first! Presume the whole head must be one forged part.