All About Pocket Knives

A very old and well used pitchfork.

Hey! Do ya wanna see mine?

jerryd6818 wrote:Hey! Do ya wanna see mine?

Yes, lets see yours!

Tomorrow if I don't forget. It's dark outside now.

Here ya go.

Green Acres is the place to be, farm livin' is the life for me............

Where's your pitchfork, David.

Well Jerry, to be perfectly honest, I don't live on a farm ir even own a pitchfork. But I sure do like old stuff.

Boy do those bring back memories from the ole days on the dairy farm.

If you stick a rattlesnake rattle on a tine, and pluck said tine, it will make your shorthairs stand up.

Here is one made from a branch. Don't know what kind of tree it is from.

Jtx wrote:Here is one made from a branch. Don't know what kind of tree it is from.

Very cool.

Jtx wrote:Here is one made from a branch. Don't know what kind of tree it is from.

I get the sense that the living tree was trained to do that, and cut at the right time. As Jerry says, COOL!

And the tine tips were hardened in a fire. Those old folks were clever and patient.

Y'all twernt joshin', wait until I get to the farm . . .

I have no pitchfork - I guess I am not the man my father was: he had one like Jerry's Grandad. I have a martial arts tiger fork somewhere in the garage - maybe that can count?

The multi-generational fork display is kind of cool, Jerry!

I have to say that the wooden fork is unique to my experience, JTX. I agree with Tongueriver that the tree must have been trained into that shape. I wonder if some farmer somewhere had a whole grove of those. Jerry, you are probably right that the tips are fire hardened on purpose, but pitchforks were also used to push and toss stuff into a fire when burning a pile of brush. My Dad used his fork for that, and just last week I was using a tree that I cut to length and left a fork on the end for that same purpose.