Re: Re: Cheryl and forks

and that is when I get the chain and the truck! I have borrowed Monica's bar a few times and her teenage son!

later, I'll tell the tale of a few of my favorite rocks!
Cheryl

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
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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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