Digging fork
identifier
ID 929
morphology
morphology
craft
craft
holotype
MOT V 89.0235 L=125cm WD=16,5cm WT=1300gr
holotype
MOT V 2003.0204 L=110cm WD=18cm WT=1910gr. Inscription: echt Esche WOLF Geräte image wolf / circle.
holotype
MOT V 2016.0467 L=118cm WD=19cm WT=2400gr
alias
garden fork (syn.)
alias
muck fork (syn.)
alias
spading fork (syn.) (SELLENS: 187)
description
A digging fork is used to work or crumble stony or strongly cohesive (clay) soil and to dig in manure. In the (vegetable) garden, unlike the garden spade, the roots of the plant are less damaged when transplanting with the digging fork. For the same reason, the gardener also prefers this tool for sticking out creepers and shrubs. A slightly wider and longer fork is used as a potato lifting fork.
See also the little digging fork. [MOT]
MOT V 2016.0467
Trade catalogue Jean Heybroek N.V. Groothandel. Land- en tuinbouwartikelen, gereedschappen en ijzerwaren, Bilthoven, 1975: 49.