What do you call this? Regional wordings

Kovu · 23-11-2015 01:03AM

Hmmm, it's like a potato fork but ours has a smaller head and more blunted tines. Ours is also about 80 or 90 years old though and merely sits in the hayshed. Turf grape?

(mwahahaha, grape, grape, grapey grape grape

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ganmo · 23-11-2015 01:15AM

Kovu wrote: »

Hmmm, it's like a potato fork but ours has a smaller head and more blunted tines. Ours is also about 80 or 90 years old though and merely sits in the hayshed. Turf grape?

(mwahahaha, grape, grape, grapey grape grape )

ahem

Kovu · 23-11-2015 01:18AM

ganmo wrote: »

ahem

Want a cough drop?

A potato fork is a different tool to a grape, it has ball ends to stop it stabbing the spuds.

Milked out · 23-11-2015 01:20AM

Base price wrote: »

What do ye call this

Beet pike

BG2.0 · 23-11-2015 01:37AM

Kovu wrote: »

Want a cough drop?

A potato fork is a different tool to a grape, it has ball ends to stop it stabbing the spuds.

That be a beet grape, a spud grape is more oval on the tines (might be mixing the 2 up). A sprong is for fibourous forage/muck etc etc

_Brian · 23-11-2015 09:43AM

It's a grape round these parts.

Hugh 2 · 23-11-2015 10:22AM

_Brian wrote: »

It's a grape round these parts.

Would call it a weak version of a sprong
They are able for no hardship compared to the ones that were round here 20 plus years ago.

Main problem is the way handle attached (handle simply snaps under pressure)

Now if a gripe is a lighter version of a sprong built like a hay fork or pike then this is a gripe and the stronger sprong that was there when I was a child is just simply not available any more.

Suckler · 23-11-2015 10:27AM

It's a graip around here as well. A fork had a shorter handle length and "D-handle" on the end. Tines were thicker 'squarer' type as well. Hay fork had two prongs.

BnB · 23-11-2015 04:55PM

2 Prongs = Pitch Fork (But Hay fork would be acceptable)

4 Prongs = Dung Fork

Sprong.....?

Grape......???????

kevthegaff · 23-11-2015 05:00PM

We just called them two grain and four grain???

pawrick · 23-11-2015 05:03PM

I'd have grown up calling it a grape or a pitch fork. No idea about the specifics of the different types i just called it what my dad called it.

Charliebull · 23-11-2015 05:04PM

2 prong is a hay fork

the 4 prong is a grape

that one base price looks like a turf grape

invicta · 23-11-2015 05:54PM

Around here!
A two prong pike
A three prong pike
A four prong pike.....
And a turf,beet, or turnip pike the one with six prongs,.......and balls!!!
Furthermore a potato pike has ten prongs, and more balls

Hugh 2 · 26-11-2015 11:42PM

TheBody wrote: »

Nekarsulm wrote: »

Should have used a graipe.

Had to laugh at these from "Funny Farming Pics"

Zoo4m8 · 27-11-2015 08:58AM

kevthegaff wrote: »

We just called them two grain and four grain???

Good man! At last..that to me is a four grain or dung fork, two grains is a pitch fork.. All this grape talk nonsense ...:D

Reggie. · 27-11-2015 09:21AM

Base price wrote: »

What do ye call this

That's a turf fork. A beet/potato/stone fork had larger square tines that were closer together

Reggie. · 07-12-2015 06:04PM

Kovu wrote: »

I'd say the major determining factor is ground type.

If you live near good rocky land like Limestone above, no they are not a necessity, cattle will be happy out on dry enough ground. Even midlands with loamy soils and good drainage they're grand, once they've the acreage to wander instead of plough.

However, here in the deep whesht we have daub and moor and boggy type soil. We only built a slatted shed in 2000/2001 after the big Christmas Eve storm knocked a hayshed.
Before that it was byre with cows chained up or cattle out on our driest ground with an old house and good hedges to keep them happy. Would I go back to it? Fcuk no. The hardship alone was unreal, walking out in all weather over 15 acres of small fields to find them. Calves born and awol, frost killing the nerves in their ears, carting hay/silage to them all the time mucking up the field more and more each time.
Byre was ok but cows would forget how to walk, must have played havoc with their heads too, staring at a wall for five months. Pull the neck off themselves for two days after going in. Even seen one cow cut her neck on the chain and the skin grew over the chain as it wasn't spotted. Dad had to reopen the wound pulling the chain out.

Having said that, I know fellas who still use byres and wouldn't change it for the world. One mad auld fella in his 70s still chains his bull in the shed!!

Jaysus. Never heard of a byre

Kovu · 07-12-2015 06:08PM

Reggie. wrote: »

Jaysus. Never heard of a byre

Ah you were reared with a silver graipe in your hand

djmc · 07-12-2015 06:38PM

Kovu wrote: »

Ah you were reared with a silver graipe in your hand

I never heard of a Byrne either but I think ye call a pike a graipe ye even have different names for Furze's and yosatanes

Kovu · 07-12-2015 06:41PM

djmc wrote: »

I never heard of a Byrne either but I think ye call a pike a graipe ye even have different names for Furze's and yosatanes

True! Just though byre was generically used all over the place.

Reggie. · 07-12-2015 06:50PM

Kovu wrote: »

Ah you were reared with a silver graipe in your hand

And don't you forget it

Base price · 07-12-2015 07:04PM

djmc wrote: »

I never heard of a Byrne either but I think ye call a pike a graipe ye even have different names for Furze's and yosatanes

What??? Does not show on a google search :eek:

Kovu wrote: »

True! Just though byre was generically used all over the place.

Don't worry Kovu, one has to make allowances for some folk

djmc · 07-12-2015 07:11PM

Had to Google it twice was spelling it wrong
A byre is what we used to call the old cow shed or cabin
I remember cows being tied up in them when I was a young lad and a lot of piking dung.
We built a slatted house in the late 70s

Base price · 07-12-2015 07:23PM

djmc wrote: »

I never heard of a Byrne either but I think ye call a pike a graipe ye even have different names for Furze's and yosatanes

What the hell are yosatanes - and how do you pronounce it. Sound like something from ancient Greece

Kovu · 07-12-2015 07:26PM

Base price wrote: »

What the hell are yosatanes - and how do you pronounce it. Sound like something from ancient Greece

I know how to pronounce it but I don't know what they are

Like yoss-ah-tanes? I wonder if it would be our buchallains, jesus I can't even spell that one and I've been using it all my life.

White Clover · 07-12-2015 07:41PM

Kovu wrote: »

I know how to pronounce it but I don't know what they are

Like yoss-ah-tanes? I wonder if it would be our buchallains, jesus I can't even spell that one and I've been using it all my life.

Yose a thawns are ragworth!
A byre is a stall!
Calf house is a calves cabin!
Got it???!!!!

Base price · 07-12-2015 07:43PM

djmc wrote: »

Had to Google it twice was spelling it wrong
A byre is what we used to call the old cow shed or cabin
I remember cows being tied up in them when I was a young lad and a lot of piking dung.
We built a slatted house in the late 70s

As a child (4/5yo) other than the sty (pig house) and calves shed my next favourite place was the byre. My Grandad use to put me up on the shoulders of one of the quiet cows when the were walking from the fields to the byre. In winter it was always warm and a haven of calm with the cows chewing contently. When my Grandad and Uncle were milking by hand my job was to hold the cows tails with two bits of baler twine tied to two cows tails. If I was very good and stopped either getting their heads swished I would get a ha'penny after milking

barnaman · 07-12-2015 07:51PM

Kovu wrote: »

I know how to pronounce it but I don't know what they are

Like yoss-ah-tanes? I wonder if it would be our buchallains, jesus I can't even spell that one and I've been using it all my life.

so long as ye do not know what a Feileastram is ye are grand. clare lads will use that.

Reggie. · 07-12-2015 07:52PM

barnaman wrote: »

so long as ye do not know what a Feileastram is ye are grand. clare lads will use that.

Or a ton dish

Kovu · 07-12-2015 07:55PM

Moved a few posts to a more on-topic thread :pac:

What do you call this? Regional wordings

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