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- From: "Alliums" <garlicgrower AT green-logic.com>
- To: "'Market Farming'" <market-farming AT lists.ibiblio.org>
- Subject: Re: [Market-farming] Digging/spading forks
- Date: Thu, 19 Nov 2009 18:36:39 -0500
Hi, Folks!
I've had my Spear & Jackson hand-forged English fork for about 15 years now,
even in heavy PA clay soil and I love it. I also don't let just anyone use
it.
When I was working with adjudicated teenage boys, they could break anything
with a wooden handle. I went to fiberglass for anything they were going to
use and it's worked a bit better. My cousin and I taught proper tool use,
but having the fiberglass handles did give us some extra "leeway" while they
were learning (and with a 4 month rotation, we had a lot of learning
curves.)
I like giving every intern their own tool set and making them responsible
for it (including replacement if they bust anything). A good set of tools
is invaluable in our work as is proper tool care -- interns should learn,
know better and learn the hard way ($$$) if they are careless.
Dorene
Southeastern PA
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Re: [Market-farming] Tell us about the cukes!
, (continued)
- Re: [Market-farming] Tell us about the cukes!, Etienne Goyer, 11/23/2009
- Re: [Market-farming] Tell us about the cukes!, Bill Shoemaker, 11/23/2009
- Re: [Market-farming] Tell us about the cukes!, BarbaraJ, 11/23/2009
- Re: [Market-farming] Tell us about the cukes!, jay sleichter, 11/23/2009
- Re: [Market-farming] Tell us about the cukes!, Wiediger, Alison, 11/23/2009
- Re: [Market-farming] Tell us about the cukes!, breck, 11/22/2009
- [Market-farming] No Till Veggies, David Inglis, 11/22/2009
- Re: [Market-farming] No Till Veggies, breck, 11/23/2009
- Re: [Market-farming] No Till Veggies, Etienne Goyer, 11/23/2009
- Re: [Market-farming] No Till Veggies, breck, 11/23/2009
- Re: [Market-farming] Digging/spading forks, Tom@TomsGardens, 11/19/2009
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