potato forks?
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I have seen potato forks in the garden centre. They claims that the flattened tynes prevent you from spearing your potatoes. Is that true? Surely if you are unlucky enough to push it directly onto a potato it will still spear it? TIA |
potato forks?
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Fred wrote: I have seen potato forks in the garden centre. They claims that the flattened tynes prevent you from spearing your potatoes. Is that true? Surely if you are unlucky enough to push it directly onto a potato it will still spear it? Right. They may bruise the potatoes slightly less in heavy soil, but that is all. Regards, Nick Maclaren. |
potato forks?
"Rod" wrote in message ... "Fred" wrote in message ... Hello, I have seen potato forks in the garden centre. They claims that the flattened tynes prevent you from spearing your potatoes. Is that true? Surely if you are unlucky enough to push it directly onto a potato it will still spear it? TIA They're OK, but as you've already suggested they're no substitute for due care. Spearing spuds isn't bad luck, it's lack of care. -- Only if you have Xray vision. There's always a spud where you weren't expecting one. But it's not only direct spearing that's the problem. If you get the fork right in underneath the spuds, there's still the risk [1] of catching them with the tines as you lever the fork up. In a country museum near here, there are various potato forks, including one with about 10 tines, which are closer together than we are familiar with, one with ball ends to the tines, and one with a bar across the end of the tines. Steve [1] Or the reality for most of us. |
potato forks?
shazzbat wrote:
In a country museum near here, there are various potato forks, including one with about 10 tines, which are closer together than we are familiar with, one with ball ends to the tines, and one with a bar across the end of the tines. Whilst discussing forks, I have, without any knowledge of its original source or purpose, a fork which has tines of the usual form and length, but the whole is much wider than usual, about 520 mm, and the end two tines are raised slightly, like the sides of a shovel. It is a little too frail to see proper work now, but I can't think what it would have been used for. Any suggestions? Chris -- Chris J Dixon Nottingham UK Have dancing shoes, will ceilidh. |
potato forks?
"Chris J Dixon" wrote in message ... shazzbat wrote: In a country museum near here, there are various potato forks, including one with about 10 tines, which are closer together than we are familiar with, one with ball ends to the tines, and one with a bar across the end of the tines. Whilst discussing forks, I have, without any knowledge of its original source or purpose, a fork which has tines of the usual form and length, but the whole is much wider than usual, about 520 mm, and the end two tines are raised slightly, like the sides of a shovel. It is a little too frail to see proper work now, but I can't think what it would have been used for. Any suggestions? That sounds like yet another form of potato fork to me. Steve |
potato forks?
On 2009-09-08 12:43:17 +0100, Chris J Dixon said:
shazzbat wrote: In a country museum near here, there are various potato forks, including one with about 10 tines, which are closer together than we are familiar with, one with ball ends to the tines, and one with a bar across the end of the tines. Whilst discussing forks, I have, without any knowledge of its original source or purpose, a fork which has tines of the usual form and length, but the whole is much wider than usual, about 520 mm, and the end two tines are raised slightly, like the sides of a shovel. It is a little too frail to see proper work now, but I can't think what it would have been used for. Any suggestions? Chris Mucking out fork? -- Sacha www.hillhousenursery.com Shrubs & perennials. Tender & exotics. South Devon |
potato forks?
On Mon, 07 Sep 2009 11:08:52 +0100, Fred
wrote: Hello, I have seen potato forks in the garden centre. They claims that the flattened tynes prevent you from spearing your potatoes. Is that true? Surely if you are unlucky enough to push it directly onto a potato it will still spear it? TIA I worked on a farm in the dim and distant past -and the potato forks (which were the size of shovels) had what looked like half-inch ball bearings on the end of each tine. |
potato forks?
On Tue, 08 Sep 2009 16:09:58 +0200, Martin wrote:
On Tue, 8 Sep 2009 14:40:25 +0100, "shazzbat" wrote: "Chris J Dixon" wrote in message . .. shazzbat wrote: In a country museum near here, there are various potato forks, including one with about 10 tines, which are closer together than we are familiar with, one with ball ends to the tines, and one with a bar across the end of the tines. Whilst discussing forks, I have, without any knowledge of its original source or purpose, a fork which has tines of the usual form and length, but the whole is much wider than usual, about 520 mm, and the end two tines are raised slightly, like the sides of a shovel. It is a little too frail to see proper work now, but I can't think what it would have been used for. Any suggestions? That sounds like yet another form of potato fork to me. Manure/bedding fork? Fork knows. -- ®óñ© © ²°¹°-°¹ |
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