Garden/Contractors fork recommendations

[MattF]

but you know what horsey girls are like.

Any ladies, not just the horsey type. Their will is absolute.

 

[Greeves246]

How about a couple of goats?

 

[badabec]

Once the horses are in there it will become a sea of mud anyway.

 

[MattF]

Once the horses are in there it will become a sea of mud anyway.

He'll get far trying to use logic in the discussion. Someone will lose the will to live.

 

[Smallfry]

How about a couple of goats?

Nope. No goats. Don't like their eyes.

They are the ultimate escape artists though, make deer look like amateurs, so I'm not sorry about that.

Doesn't like donkeys either .........

 

[Smallfry]

He'll get far trying to use logic in the discussion. Someone will lose the will to live.

No point in arguing. Even if she says she sees my POV, will do whatever she wants anyway.

To be fair I am much the same

 

[MattF]

Don't like their eyes.

 

[dave h 2]

I find the flames and trident more of an issue.

 

[oldbikedavey]

Any ladies, not just the horsey type. Their will is absolute.

And its sway to be avoided like the plague.....

 

[Dapph2]

Long handled shovels are good if loading loose material from a stock pile but they can't compete for proper digging. Even loading a mixer you will do it quicker with a short handled shovel as you have 2-3x as much material on them. It is just more comfortable to use the long handled one.

I've surprised many a brick sh*thouse built builder by me making 30 or 30 barrels of mortar or 6 to one concrete a day with my ladies border spade on a pitch for shaft . For 45 years I've been disabled in my left side I just learnt to adapt and get on with it .
My spades full are a fraction of the weight of a full sand shovel so not a bit tiring as I don't bend or lean forward to fling stuff in the mixer .

Same with digging I usually dig to 15 to 1 inches deep but only have a spit 3 inched thick by 5 inches wide by 5 or so inches deep , Guys can't believe how fast and deep I dig .

 

[oldbikedavey]

I've surprised many a brick sh*thouse built builder by me making 30 or 30 barrels of mortar or 6 to one concrete a day with my ladies border spade on a pitch for shaft . For 45 years I've been disabled in my left side I just learnt to adapt and get on with it .
My spades full are a fraction of the weight of a full sand shovel so not a bit tiring as I don't bend or lean forward to fling stuff in the mixer .

Same with digging I usually dig to 15 to 1 inches deep but only have a spit 3 inched thick by 5 inches wide by 5 or so inches deep , Guys can't believe how fast and deep I dig .

It's all about gearing.
Once you've used a proper French louchet digging spade, you'll never use another type.
The ergonomics are sublime....
That's on decent soil, though.
Around here in this part of Essex, you're dealing with the most unforgiving soil substrates imaginable.
Not quite clay, not quite stony, just enough to give you false hope ....
Rather like one of Gary Larsens cartoons of a cafeteria in Hell.....

 

[Onoff]

What soil have you got there @Smallfry ?

Clay, flint and chalk like me?

 

[Agrismith]

It's all about gearing.
Once you've used a proper French louchet digging spade, you'll never use another type.
The ergonomics are sublime....
That's on decent soil, though.
Around here in this part of Essex, you're dealing with the most unforgiving soil substrates imaginable.
Not quite clay, not quite stony, just enough to give you false hope ....
Rather like one of Gary Larsens cartoons of a cafeteria in Hell.....

I have never found spades much use for digging, don't know many blakes who use them either, I certainly never have had one in the truck when I was on the tools. A cable laying shovel, a trench shovel and a long handled graft are the best tools for for digging, although a few gangs are starting to carry round mouthed shovels.