I always look at what tools are for sale at the carboot sales.
I immediately recognised the potato 🥔 fork on the right. It's got steel baubles on the bottom of the fork tines. This prevents the potato digger from puncturing the new potatoes. I often put my fork through them.
The man wanted 40 Euros for it. I wanted the potato fork very much but I wasn't paying that for it.
Next to the potato 🥔 fork is a slain. That was or can be used for digging peat or ' turf' they call it here in Ireland.
The slasher with the long handle was used for cutting brambles and briars.
All very useful tools that require hard physical work.
All nice and new and clean looking. And prices accordingly I suppose. You want something preloved.
ReplyDeleteYou do need one of those potato diggers. You're the potato king
Thanks for the grand title Linda.😀
DeleteThat's a bit steep for an old potato fork. Shame you couldn't haggle it down.
ReplyDeleteI would have paid twenty Euros for it JayCee. Perhaps I could get number one son to well some metal blobs on one of my garden forks?
ReplyDeleteMost of my long handled tools belonged to my mum, she took great care of them as do I.
ReplyDeleteThat's a blog post with pictures I would love to see Marlene. I can use the bend your back T shaped English gardening tools. But I also like to use the long handled tools like the pike and celtic shovel. Great for loading carts and digging.
ReplyDeleteWith my raised beds I don't use them anymore, but I will keep them.
DeleteI also have old gard tools I no longer use but I will not part with them.
DeleteGreat collection of long handled tools. I loath the T shaped bend your back digging tools favoured in England. They are a form of torture. Bro fitted me out wirh a good collection of shovels pitchforks, long handled drag rakes and the like which live under my caravan when not in use. I'm very tenacious with hand tools - you can achieve a lot without destroying the land like heavy machinery does.
ReplyDeleteI can use t shaped handles or Celtic/ Devon spade long handled tools TM. I think my Azada is the easiest clearing hoe on the back. I have seen them used by council workmen in the Azada slowly clearing weeds and vegetation the searing heat. Hand tools like miniature Azadas, onion hoe's, hand trowels and hand forks are very useful for tending the repurposed raised beds we have created. Diggers often create an hard pan of soil in new house builds creating drainage problems.
DeleteI don’t think we have the potato fork here. I know we don’t have the turf cutter. I saw one while in Ireland and even though it was hot they had a turf fire going. Just so we could smell it.
ReplyDeleteI wouldn’t pay those prices either. I’m sure you will eventually find one at the right price
Hi Angela. The Irish farmers and smallholder were close to nature and they grew their own food and dug turf for fuel and used animal manure and seaweed for fertilizer. You rarely see potato forks on our car boot sales travels these days.
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