[AG-EQ] Question of the Day

[Jewel]

You might recall that I posed the question:  "When is a digging fork not a digging fork?" and the
answer was:  "When it doesn't dig!"
Well, I returned the useless thing to Mitre10 and got a replacement.  While the first one had 
squared-off tines that would have had difficulty piercing anything tougher than a Victoria sponge, 
this one, at a pinch, could, though I haven't given it that test.
I went on to remark that, it seems, that manufacturers don't have too much idea re what jobs their 
products are going to be employed to do.
One of the products concerned is the humble work-a-day spade.
Now!  there is a fairly likely possibility that said agricultural implement is going to be required 
to break up hard, untilled ground:  much as my useless fork was:  but what do we have to press down 
on but a thin steel edge which is, not only hard on the foot, but is ruinous to the shoe/boot in 
which that foot is encased.
It would be the simplest thing in the world to weld a piece of steel pipe, or similar, to the top 
edge of the blade, which is, precisely,  what I have done:  or rather, have had a friend with a 
welder, do.

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From: "Jewel" <jewelblanch at kinect.co.nz>
Sent: Thursday, December 05, 2019 10:25 PM
To: "nzbg" <nz-blindgardeners at googlegroups.com>; "Deslie" <d.blanch at actrix.co.nz>;
<gwila47 at hotmail.com>; <blindlikeme at yahoogroups.com>
Subject: Question of the Day

Q:  When is a digging fork not a digging fork?
A:  when it won't dig!
Some time ago, I bought, at great expense, a "high quality, long-handled, strong * digging fork, and
tonight, for the first time since purchasing :"it,  I wanted to put its digging attributes to work.
However, my need was not met as the tines are quite squared off and will not penetrate the baked and
root-filled earth.
Well!  perhaps they night if the soil was, to some extent, cultivated  and the downward pressure on
the fork was being provided by the foot of a 6 foot 6 22 stone sumo wrestler but as said downward
pressure was being supplied by the foot of a less than 5 foot:  never mind the weight:80-year-old
weakling, it wouldn't!
I really don't know on what planet manufacturers live as I buy one product after another and one
look tells me that this article was never tested before it went into mass production.

           Jewel