What do you call this? Regional wordings

Kovu · 21-11-2015 11:03PM

Sam Kade wrote: »

C'mon Cork lads start voting

Not a lot of pike users on Boards

Username John · 21-11-2015 11:08PM

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 · 21-11-2015 11:13PM

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 · 21-11-2015 11:14PM

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 · 21-11-2015 11:16PM

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 · 21-11-2015 11:18PM

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 · 21-11-2015 11:19PM

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BG2.0 · 21-11-2015 11:36PM

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 · 21-11-2015 11:38PM

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 · 21-11-2015 11:38PM

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 · 21-11-2015 11:54PM

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 · 22-11-2015 12:01AM

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 · 22-11-2015 12:23AM

Grape with a straight handle.

None of that nancy boy T handles !!

Bongalongherb · 22-11-2015 12:25AM

It's a pitch fork and always was.

Greengrass1 · 22-11-2015 12:27AM

tanko wrote: »

What do you call one with two prongs then?

A prong;)

trabpc · 22-11-2015 12:28AM

Never herd of a grape. Seriously

Base price · 22-11-2015 12:34AM

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 · 22-11-2015 12:37AM

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 · 22-11-2015 12:47AM

Base price wrote: »

Don't forget about Longford and Leitrim as well.

It's a grape in Tyrone also.

foxy farmer · 22-11-2015 12:54AM

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.

Mac Taylor · 22-11-2015 12:55AM

tanko wrote: »

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

Know a lad that was forking clean straw when rats started to make a run for it. So eager was he to kill a few with the fork he miss took his foot for one and forked his own foot, a sore job accompanied with time off work and a good few injections.

XR3i · 22-11-2015 12:57AM

fork is topping the poll

pedigree 6 · 22-11-2015 01:04AM

XR3i wrote: »

fork is topping the poll

Ah that name will never catch on. Those posh people and they're forks, wouldn't know a good sprong if they saw one.:D

tanko · 22-11-2015 01:25AM

Mac Taylor wrote: »

Know a lad that was forking clean straw when rats started to make a run for it. So eager was he to kill a few with the fork he miss took his foot for one and forked his own foot, a sore job accompanied with time off work and a good few injections.

I think i was hungover and still half asleep on a Sunday morning when i did it.