Does anyone know what kind of tool/equipment this is?

Question

http://i149.photobucket.com/albums/s56/freelancingdiva/farmthing1.jpg

Thanks!

Answer 1

good one....I would say either a chaff fork or barley fork, but it doesnt really look like either, it has nothing to do with potatoes or beets, its not made for digging in the soil, so you got me on this one.......

Answer 2

i bet it is used for picking some kind of fruit or something...

Answer 3

looks like a mini pickfork. could be what they use to pick blueberries also. lets the blueberries through and they sit in the cupped area until you put them in the basket. that would be my bet

Answer 4

Wheat carrying fork, when they bundled wheat they used this to stick into the bundles to pick them up to take the bundles to the thrasher, so the thrasher could remove the wheat seed!

Answer 5

It may have been used to thresh (thrash) wheat. I am not sure even though I have seen them before. Only guessing about it

Answer 6

Yes, with a long handle it could be put up into trees like apples, etc., to pick them without bruising them.

It might also be a grain scoop, used to aerate the stored grain to keep it from molding or to avoid spontaneous combustion.

Answer 7

i do, because im a farmer

Answer 8

Its a garden fork used for sorting out weeds and bulbs.

Answer 9

This is a kind of sped, used for lifting harvested crops with its straw (Maize, wheat, rice, pearl Millet etc.). In developing countries these crops are hand cut and kept neatly on the ground for other people to pick up and take it to threshing spot (usually in some corner of the same field.), this tool is used for lifting those cut crops.

Answer 10

It looks like it could have been widely used during the Inquisition...

Answer 11

It's used for lifting harvested crops

Answer 12

I think its for digging or turning up soil for planting vegetables or crops!

Answer 13

It is the soil fork used to rake the soil.Thereby to mix the soil,uproot the weeds,pupal cases of pests.

Answer 14

might be what some of the other answers were, but my educated guess is that it was used to dig potatoes, then the dirt falls through and the potatoes stay in the half basket of sorts