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Hand fork

HelixHelix Posts: 631
in Tools and techniques
Well my old faithful hand fork, passed down to me from my mother, has just bitten the dust. I went into local garden centre and the only ones they had looked as if they would struggle to last 10 minutes.

Do you have one you would recommend?

 (As a reminder, my OH recently broke my felco 7’s, so it has to be tough as he is not gentle with tools). 

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  • ObelixxObelixx Posts: 30,090
    That does look good and sturdy.   I have a Sneeboer trowel bought as a birthday present.  It's great.

    I used to go thru hand forks quite rapidly too until I treated myself to one with a wooden handle and cylindrical, stainless steel tines.  It's very good in clay and loam and, so far, the tines haven't bent which always happens to my flat tined forks.  I'm afraid I don't know what brand it is.

    Vendée - 20kms from Atlantic coast.
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    Plato
  • HelixHelix Posts: 631
    £200+ for a titanium handfork!  My god!  I was sort of thinking that perhaps I'd stretch to something like £20 as I want a fork that might last....
  • micearguersmicearguers Posts: 646
    I always use a different type, apparently called weeding fork, I find it very effective, e.g. such as this:


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