Re: Re: Cheryl and forks
- Subject: Re: Re: Cheryl and forks
- From: m*@theturcottes.com
- Date: Sat, 7 Dec 2002 8:07:32 -0500
For the really big rocks I have a large pry bar that's about six feet long and weighs about 30 pounds. If that thing can't move the rock, that's when I decide to go around it!
Monica
>
> From: "Marge Talt" <mtalt@hort.net>
> Date: 2002/12/05 Thu AM 01:32:48 EST
> To: <perennials@hort.net>
> Subject: Re: Cheryl and forks
>
> 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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