[AT] Pitchforks - new vs. old.

[Larry D. Goss]

Man, a fork that small would have been ideal to work with instead of the
beet fork that my uncle had in the silo out on the dairy farm.  D handle
-- about the size and shape of a grain scoop shovel, no plate on the
outward end of the tines to hold them together, and the end of each tine
was forged into a bulb so it remained blunt.  I never did ask about the
heritage of that fork, but I always suspected it was a carryover from
the days when my grandfather raised sugar beets on the farm -- around
1905.  The beet wagon was still setting in the orchard in 1979 and sold
with the rest of the farming hardware.  Think of a horse-drawn grain
wagon with a side dump fashioned like the tail gate on a gravel truck.

Larry

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[mailto:at-bounces at lists.antique-tractor.com] On Behalf Of Gene Waugh
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	That big fork sounds like one I have "someplace" that we always
called a "straw fork".

-- 
"farmer", Esquire
At Hewick Midwest
      Wealth beyond belief, just no money...


Or a silage fork---does it have a "D" handle, or straight?

Gene

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