[AG-EQ] Question of the Day

[Jody ianuzzi]

Hi Jewel,

Could it be that the fork with the manure fork and not a garden fork? I have purchased spades that had the top piece bent over so that you could step on them without a sharp edge

JODY

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> On Dec 20, 2019, at 9:18 PM, Jewel via AG-EQ <ag-eq at nfbnet.org> wrote:
> 
> 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.
> 
> --------------------------------------------------
> 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 
> 
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