Pitchfork

[MrBrad]

Has anyone seen a place that sells pitchforks here in Thailand, and specifically in Chiang Mai?  I know they're good for uprisings, but they're also very good for jobs around the yard.  My Thai neighbor says he'd never seen one.

 

Thanks much.

[kickstart]

How many do you want ?. I live in a  dairy farming area , and most  farm shops sell this type a of fork , used mainly  for handling muck,  I have one .not over good quality  ,I snapped off one of the tines .

You are in CM  Google dairy co -op  Chaing  Mie , they will have one  or a farm shop near by ราน้การเกษตร  in Thai . 

[cooked]

A mystery to me why they don't use them in Thailand, although a good quality fork is expensive. I showed my sil how easy it is to load and unload hay using one,  he refused to be impressed and left it leaning against the wall, preferring to use a stick.

Similar deal when clearing up Bougainvillea prunings and the like: done in 15 minutes, they take all day.

However a guy in the village saw me using a fork and I saw him using one he'd made himself, welded reinforcing rods together on to a steel tube.

There is a difference between pitch forks, manure forks and compost forks (there are also potato and stone forks).

[kickstart]

11 hours ago, cooked said:

A mystery to me why they don't use them in Thailand, although a good quality fork is expensive. I showed my sil how easy it is to load and unload hay using one,  he refused to be impressed and left it leaning against the wall, preferring to use a stick.

Similar deal when clearing up Bougainvillea prunings and the like: done in 15 minutes, they take all day.

However a guy in the village saw me using a fork and I saw him using one he'd made himself, welded reinforcing rods together on to a steel tube.

There is a difference between pitch forks, manure forks and compost forks (there are also potato and stone forks).

You are quite right, a pitch fork ,has 2 tines, used to pitch bales on to a trailer in the field ,or in to the barn from a trailer ,I use to use one regularly  when I was working on the farm ,the one the op posted  I would class  as a manure fork .

We use to have potato fork 's  about 18 inch's wide , with about 10 tines ,so the spuds did fall though ,with small balls  on the front ,so tines did not skewer the potatoes , use to use them  for sugar  beet to ,  probably some on Google if you look.

Around here when handling bales ,they use  hooks , with wooden handles , same ones that are used when handling sacks  of rice.