Re: Cheryl and forks
- Subject: Re: Cheryl and forks
- From: "Marge Talt" m*@hort.net
- Date: Thu, 5 Dec 2002 01:32:48 -0500
I've lost or missed the start of this thread, but I used to bend
tines on cheap forks regularly. Ponied up for a good one from Smith
& Hawkin and have been abusing it for 10 years or more now. While I
do not actually try to pry boulders with it, I dig stumps and smaller
rocks out of clay soil all the time. I found the tines on the cheap
ones bent if you looked at them sideways. For what I spent on cheap
forks, I could have had several good ones:-)
Key is that when you encounter a large rock, you don't just keep
prying without doing some investigation to determine whether you need
a backhoe to move it:-) All tools, even good ones, have their limits
- but good tools can withstand much more than cheap ones before
reaching theirs.
Marge Talt, zone 7 Maryland
mtalt@hort.net
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> From: ECPep@aol.com
>
> In a message dated 12/3/02 8:53:42 AM Eastern Standard Time,
> cherylisaak@adelphia.net writes:
>
>
> > The one tool that I regularly destroy is the gardening fork; the
> > native crop of rocks bend and twist the tines. I own two right
now,
> > both are bent and twisted. I have been tempted several times to
buy
> > a high end one, but fear for its life if I do. And yes the soil
is
> > well amended, but between the contractor burying rocks and the
> > natural uplift of glacial till........you get the picture!
>
>
> Cheryl,
>
> I, too, have no forks that are not both coming and going from
rocks. I don't
> buy them anymore. One develops a rock strategy and that is that.
Or, you
> could move <BG>.
>
> Claire Peplowski
> NYS z4 (where we now consider all rocks works of art)
>
>
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