Potato/beet fork

stevep1018

Not sure where to post.Hi all.could anyone help me to find one of the above.i prefer to buy the old ones to the ones you can buy these days.im in North tipperary.any help would be great.

my3cents

Which use? Digging or shoveling? Two very different tools and then some people have very weird ideas on what is a potato fork.

For me a potato fork is like a digging fork but with extra wide tines and the potato/beet handling fork is a wide shovel made up of 12 or more tines often with rounded ends so you can shovel up spuds from a hard surface and loose any soil in the process (also use by landscapers to shovel stones while leaving as much soil as possible).





A beet fork is like the potato "shovel" but less tines more widely spaced but then every area has different names for things.

Glambia and Woodies stock some (but not all) of the True Temper range (pictures above) so give them a try.

stevep1018

my3cents wrote: »

Which use? Digging or shoveling? Two very different tools and then some people have very weird ideas on what is a potato fork.

For me a potato fork is like a digging fork but with extra wide tines and the potato/beet handling fork is a wide shovel made up of 12 or more tines often with rounded ends so you can shovel up spuds from a hard surface and loose any soil in the process (also use by landscapers to shovel stones while leaving as much soil as possible).





A beet fork is like the potato "shovel" but less tines more widely spaced but then every area has different names for things.

Glambia and Woodies stock some (but not all) of the True Temper range (pictures above) so give them a try.

Thanks for that.i will have a look.i had a loan of a beet fork yesterday for the turf and it's a godsend so I really want to get one myself

Hocus Focus

Aldi (or is it Lidl?) are currently offering a fork with an "ergonomic handle". The tines on it are made of steel plate and are quite wide.