What do you call this? Regional wordings

whelan2

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Bullocks

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Pitch fork ?

White Clover

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It's a four prong pike whelan2!

ABlur

Dung fork

Base price

It depends on where I am, in Longford its a grape and in NCD its a dung fork

Grueller

Hardship

X6.430macman

a grape?????? never heard that one.

whelan2

Grueller wrote: »

Hardship

or sore if ya stand on it

Sam Kade

Whelan, it's a four pronged pike

Back in the 80's I met a fella in Athenry ag college that so happened to be placed on the same farm as me in his first year. He was up the country I'm from Cork placement farm is also in Cork, he couldn't get over when he was asked after starting placement to get the four pronged pike He didn't have a clue what it was

Kovu

whelan2 wrote: »

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Too straight for what we'd call a grape- It needs a curve like this in order to be a grape -

X6.430macman

I heard every name, but never a grape??

patsy_mccabe

A dung fork. I'm after eating a few grapes there now. Washed them under the tap and all.

Kovu

X6.430macman wrote: »

I heard every name, but never a grape??

The west is a special place for names

X6.430macman

that explains it

tanko

whelan2 wrote: »

or sore if ya stand on it

It's even sorer if you miss the silage and drive it into your foot:(

Kovu

GRAPE IS WINNING! C'MON GRAIPE :D

BG2.0

Lads/ladies, that's a sprong.

ganmo

Kovu wrote: »

GRAPE IS WINNING! C'MON GRAIPE :D

Grapes are for making wine

bogman_bass

X6.430macman wrote: »

I heard every name, but never a grape??

Meath and Cavan it's a grape

Sam Kade

Back in the 70's when I was 7 years old I managed to drive the prong of a four pronged pike through my big toe while piking dung. I had a good cry about it and when it was all over I went back to piking dung If it happened nowadays health and safety and the ambulance would be called :rolleyes: We're gone from one extreme to another.

Greengrass1

Ohhhh not this again.

Did we not do this a yr ago?

Greengrass1

BG2.0 wrote: »

Lads/ladies, that's a sprong.

Go back to wexford will ye.



It's a fork

tanko

Greengrass1 wrote: »

Go back to wexford will ye.



It's a fork

What do you call one with two prongs then?

Kovu

Greengrass1 wrote: »

Ohhhh not this again.

Did we not do this a yr ago?

Yea but see we're all getting old and forgetting things like that :P

moonshadow

tanko wrote: »

What do you call one with two prongs then?

A broken fork !

Sam Kade

tanko wrote: »

What do you call one with two prongs then?

A hay pike Or bale pike

cosatron

A Darby loader

X6.430macman

just call it a fork will ye

Base price

bogman_bass wrote: »

Meath and Cavan it's a grape

Don't forget about Longford and Leitrim as well.

Sam Kade

Kovu wrote: »

GRAPE IS WINNING! C'MON GRAIPE :D

Fcuk off it's a pike

Sam Kade

C'mon Cork lads start voting

Kovu

Sam Kade wrote: »

C'mon Cork lads start voting

Not a lot of pike users on Boards

Username John

Tis a Pike!

(Well, 4 prong pike to be exact, but we'll make do with pike)

Grape... Indeed... Barbarians!

Next ye'll be on about drains being 'shooks' and all sorts o madness...

tanko

Username John wrote: »

Tis a Pike!

(Well, 4 prong pike to be exact, but we'll make do with pike)

Grape... Indeed... Barbarians!

Next ye'll be on about drains being 'shooks' and all sorts o madness...

It not a shook, it's a sheugh;)

Kovu

Username John wrote: »

Tis a Pike!

(Well, 4 prong pike to be exact, but we'll make do with pike)

Grape... Indeed... Barbarians!

Next ye'll be on about drains being 'shooks' and all sorts o madness...

It's pronounced shuh And it's usually reached by a boreen covered in trawneens and buchallawns.

Base price

Bullocks wrote: »

Pitch fork ?

Naa a pitch fork is a two prong one like this

Kovu wrote: »

Too straight for what we'd call a grape- It needs a curve like this in order to be a grape -
That looks like a garden fork to me. Never seen a grape with a short handle like that and a "T" piece on top. Break your back forking silage with that.

tanko wrote: »

What do you call one with two prongs then?

Pitch fork.

A three pronged fork is called a hay fork.

Oh and a one pronged fork is called a spear :rolleyes:

Sam Kade

Kovu wrote: »

It's pronounced shuh And it's usually reached by a boreen covered in trawneens and buchallawns.

Jaysus Kovu we've something in common we call them buchallawns in Cork as well

X6.430macman

wtf???????????????????????????????????????????????????????????????/

BG2.0

Greengrass1 wrote: »

Go back to wexford will ye.



It's a fork

We're rounding up a posse, can't have them Wicklow types coming down to Wexico telling us a sprongs not a sprong :mad:

stretch film

BG2.0 wrote: »

We're rounding up a posse, can't have them Wicklow types coming down to Wexico telling us a sprongs not a sprong :mad:

Yeah its a sprong aka a darby industrial loader.

Kovu

Base price wrote: »

Naa a pitch fork is a two prong one like this
Pitch fork.

A three pronged fork is called a hay fork.

Oh and a one pronged fork is called a spear :rolleyes:

Yea it's the base bit I'm on about, the T handle would be fcuked out the door for one that's worn in over many years. A five foot straight handle does the job, once it's nicely dried out.

Base price

Kovu wrote: »

Yea it's the base bit I'm on about, the T handle would be fcuked out the door for one that's worn in over many years. A five foot straight handle does the job, once it's nicely dried out.

When I was a childer my Granddad used to immerse the handles of all the hand tools - grapes, loys, spades, breast slean, shovels etc in a barrel of bluestone mix to harden them for a day or two. The mix was then used to spray spuds and added to lime for limewashing the byre and calf shed.

Sam Kade

Base price wrote: »

When I was a childer my Granddad used to immerse the handles of all the hand tools - grapes, loys, spades, breast slean, shovels etc in a barrel of bluestone mix to harden them for a day or two. The mix was then used to spray spuds and added to lime for limewashing the byre and calf shed.

I remember the bluestone for the spuds

Longford Leader

Grape with a straight handle.

None of that nancy boy T handles !!

Bongalongherb

It's a pitch fork and always was.

Greengrass1

tanko wrote: »

What do you call one with two prongs then?

A prong;)

trabpc

Never herd of a grape. Seriously

Base price

Kovu wrote: »

It's pronounced shuh And it's usually reached by a boreen covered in trawneens and buchallawns.

+1 although in our case it was rushes.
In my Grandparents farm we had the calves shuh and the poultry shuh which were accessed by the poultry from the large garden and by the calves from the paddock beside the house.

patsy_mccabe

Ah tis like the Kerryman on the building site and the 3 shovels lying against the wall....and he asked to take his pick.

mallards

Base price wrote: »

Don't forget about Longford and Leitrim as well.

It's a grape in Tyrone also.

foxy farmer

Just looked at the price of it and I'd call it a dear pike. €45 holy crap. Better mind the 2 I've got.
My father used to draw stick figures with me when i was small. I can still remember the picture of a man with a cap standing holding a a four pronged pike to one side.
Them short T handled yokes should be banned. Only good for filling a Chiropractors pocket with money. Jaysus you'd have some hump on ya after a day with that.