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What do you call this? Regional wordings
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Base price wrote: »No name for this in your neck of the woods??
Its was a fairly used implement in Longford and surrounding counties. Having said that when I brought it to NCD neighbours had never seen one like this.
Was also a handy weapon
Think we have one somewhere too, could be stuck in the hayshed rafters. 0 -
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Right I clearly missed the grape/fork party that's been going on for the last week as I avoided the never ending IFA debates
And also please forgive me if its already been decided (which I'm sure it has, considering the volume of replies) Anyways I've been talking to the most reliable source I know on the matter at hand (a man who worked his whole life with such implements).
The implement in the OP is a "manure fork" They've four sharp prongs and a long straight handle. The handle is long due to the need to fork manure onto carts and also for ensuring and even distribution of said manure when throwing it off carts in the fields and also when scattering it from the small heaps in the field.
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A grape or graipe has a shorter handle usually with a Tee at the top and is used primarily for digging, These too have 4 prongs and the prongs can be thin and sharp or fat and blunt. Although the blunt ones are useless at anything other than digging in loose soil.
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The three pronged variants are just called "forks" and these are nowadays most commonly used for forking silage. these have long handles too.
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And long handled two pronged forks are "hay forks".
Also Turf forks are actually "beet forks".
Finally according to my well seasoned source
he reckons the area's which use the term "pike" are largely where the various plantations occurred with the result that these implements were for a time seen more as weapons than tools or implements of work. So the term pike is more common in the south east/east and the north where as the terms forks and grapes are more common in the west and midlands. 0 -
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Don't think I will dip my toes in that poolselectamatic wrote: »Dunno about that he's not short on the experience front :P and put it this way he may be old but I'd rather you tell him he's wrong than me 0 -
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selectamatic wrote: »Right I clearly missed the grape/fork party that's been going on for the last week as I avoided the never ending IFA debates And also please forgive me if its already been decided (which I'm sure it has, considering the volume of replies) Anyways I've been talking to the most reliable source I know on the matter at hand (a man who worked his whole life with such implements).
The implement in the OP is a "manure fork" They've four sharp prongs and a long straight handle. The handle is long due to the need to fork manure onto carts and also for ensuring and even distribution of said manure when throwing it off carts in the fields and also when scattering it from the small heaps in the field.
imgur
A grape or graipe has a shorter handle usually with a Tee at the top and is used primarily for digging, These too have 4 prongs and the prongs can be thin and sharp or fat and blunt. Although the blunt ones are useless at anything other than digging in loose soil.
screenshot windows 7
The three pronged variants are just called "forks" and these are nowadays most commonly used for forking silage. these have long handles too.
picture share
And long handled two pronged forks are "hay forks".
Also Turf forks are actually "beet forks".
Finally according to my well seasoned source he reckons the area's which use the term "pike" are largely where the various plantations occurred with the result that these implements were for a time seen more as weapons than tools or implements of work. So the term pike is more common in the south east/east and the north where as the terms forks and grapes are more common in the west and midlands.
No it was decided that the three pronged or spronged is a grape! 2 pronged its a pitch fork. Fair play for finding a photo of a grape!0 -
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Only ever heard furrows or sods used, mainly furrows though. Perhaps the posters on here who grew up with them being pulled by horses may have differing terms.
I'm still to busy admiring the coincidence of two ford enthusiasts posting consecutively in a farming thread 0 -
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Knew I heard perch before besides a birds perch the trout had me thinking alright
A weaner is a Bonham that is taken away from the sow and weaned off her milk.
Much like a calf and a weanling
A fattener is a pig over 12 weeks or 32kgs until slaughter weight.0 -
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Not a saying or a word but something I'm wondering.
Two common customs here are to have a smoke at a wake (similar to passing the pipe in olden days I think) and to not eat meat on Stephans Day. Think the latter is a Northern thing. So do many here know of or do these?
And c'mon grape!! 0
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