Re: CULT spading fork

From: "Julia Rankin" <breckenridge@bnis.net>

John, and all who offered advice with respect to the spading fork, I do very
much appreciate your having responded.  I will try Lee Valley and see if
they still have Bulldog brand forks.

Again, many thanks.

Julia
-----Original Message-----
From: John Montgomery <monashee@junction.net>
To: iris-talk@onelist.com <iris-talk@onelist.com>
Date: Saturday, May 15, 1999 9:12 PM
Subject: Re: [iris-talk] CULT spading fork


>From: John Montgomery <monashee@junction.net>
>
>Julia Rankin wrote:
>
>>  I see that I am going to have to lift and separate some two and three
>> year clumps this year. There seem to be two different types of spading
>> forks on the market -- one with thick tines and one with finer tines.
>> I wonder if anyone could tell me which works best?
>
>I am familiar with two types of spading forks. One has wider & thinner
>tines and any of these which I have used are not suitable for lifting
>clumps of plants. They are okay for digging up fairly loose soil but in
>heavy work the tines bend. The other type have tines which are square in
>cross section and if well made are virtually indestructable.
>The ones I use are 'Bulldog' brand from England and sold here through
>mail order by Lee Valley Tools. They cost a small fortune but I don't
>think Arnold Swartznegger could bend tose tines. I expect our
>grandchildren will be deciding who they should pass them on to.
>
>Remember that good steel costs more the first time you buy it than poor
>steel does. By the time you have replaced deveral of the cheap ones, the
>expensive one looks like a bargain.
>Do check the direction of the grain in the handle and reject it if it
>angles across the handle. Here again, someone can always make a thing
>cheaper. If a manufacturer buys 1000 handle blanks and uses them all,
>his fork should sell cheaper than those from a manufacturer who rejects
>25% of the blanks
>
>Happy digging
>John Montgomery
>Vernon  BC  Zone 5
>
>
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