Spear and Jackson digging fork

[cjp1953]

I bought my first digging fork today after looking all for a high end one around here.There is nothing sold here that looks like it would hold up.I don't own tiller and am doing a notill this year.I wanted a tool to loosen my soil and work amendments into it.The Spear and Jackson forged carbon steel with the split handel made of ashwood looks like it will hold up.It's made like the older tools where back when they made them to last for years to come.Mine came from Park Seeds.

[RayR]

A good digging fork is an indispensable garden tool. Looks like a very nice fork, the one I'm using was $5.00 from the flea market but someday I'll get myself a real nice one.
I'm doing no-till too, so the fork gets a lot of use.

[Worth1]

People we have been hoodwinked!!!!!!

Here is what happened.
For years people paid a price for good tools and wouldn't look at a cheap pile of junk from china.
Then the big box stores came in and they gave us a choice cheap or good.
Then the good went away and only the cheap stayed.
Then the price of the cheap went up with no quality; still junk.

I have a pick-hoe that came from a good name but it is now junk.
I have to keep re-bending the hoe part back to shape.
One of these days I will try to temper the thing to see if it works.
What you have purchased is a good product it cost $60 because that is what it costs these days to make good tools.

A while back I had to pay something like $30 for a good trenching shovel made in the USA.

Worth

[peppero]

Originally Posted by RayR

A good digging fork is an indispensable garden tool. Looks like a very nice fork, the one I'm using was $5.00 from the flea market but someday I'll get myself a real nice one.
I'm doing no-till too, so the fork gets a lot of use.

Ray I too have gone to no till and even sold my heavy duty trimmer that had a tiller attachment that was very handy. I also paid $5 for my used fork. Maybe someday I'll get a good, used of course. My favorite tool is a trenching shovel that I have used for 40+ years.

jon

[cjp1953]

Thanks to all that replayed,I'll get to use it before I put my winter cover crop in this fall,and then in the spring when I turn the cover crop back into the soil.Right now I have a good layer of straw as mulch in the garden.