Corunna
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Just a random question,which way up?
thank you.
thank you.
Correct way to store stable pitchfork?
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cobgoblin
Bugrit! Millennium hand and shrimp.
Does it matter?
I prefer tines down as it's more stable.
I prefer tines down as it's more stable.
tda
Well-Known Member
Down, into a bale or the ground if possible
southerncomfort
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I stick mine in the muck heap!
mariew
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Away from anywhere any horse can grab one or a human can stumble over it? Tines down I think.
milliepops
Wears headscarf aggressively
Yup same here
Flowerofthefen
Well-Known Member
Away from any horses. I put it up against the wall the opposite way round to how I would use it if that makes sense. I know others put it the other way round so if it falls it falls with the handle first.
SussexbytheXmasTree
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I store all forks with the tines down if free-standing. If you mean one of those long handled two tine pitchforks with sharp prongs I’d probably get a bracket to hang it on which would be tines upwards. They’re not particularly stable so tend to fall over.
Shysmum
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Mine lives in the wheelbarrow.
poiuytrewq
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Mine lives in the wheelbarrow too! It saves me about 5 seconds in the morning ?
When I was being neat it hung from a hook upside down and my corn broom slotted neatly into its prongs..... pre winter obviously!
When I was being neat it hung from a hook upside down and my corn broom slotted neatly into its prongs..... pre winter obviously!
honetpot
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Where ever I left it (them) last. I have four, three short and one long handled for pitching up the heap, and along with scissors, they are constantly being mislaid. I have no one to blame but myself.
Keith_Beef
Novice equestrian, accomplished equichetrian
Tines down, handle clipped into a holder like this one on Krämer's French site.
Definitely NOT laying with tines pointing at the sky in a barrow load of hay.
Definitely NOT laying with tines pointing at the sky in a barrow load of hay.
MissTyc
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My least favourite livery seems to like storing it upright with with tines pointing up and out so that anyone using the shed in the dark skewers themselves + a runaway horse once almost ran into it. I seem to turn it round every single day and we've had arguments about it, and yet she doesn't care/remember? It was actually her runaway horse that nearly hit it ... Hmmmmm ..
Gingerwitch
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Ohhh runs to hide.... saw a horse millimetres from taking eye out on one stored like this. It scared the life out of me, it was almost invisible silver prongs in the sunlight. Yard owner took the bracket down straight away.
deb_l222
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This is a slightly bizarre thread but at least I've learnt something new today.
I never knew the prongy bits of a pitchfork were called tines!! I do now
In answer to the question, tines (ooohhh errr) down. Why would you ever store it handle down unless you deliberately want to see someone get hurt?
I never knew the prongy bits of a pitchfork were called tines!! I do now
In answer to the question, tines (ooohhh errr) down. Why would you ever store it handle down unless you deliberately want to see someone get hurt?
Shilasdair
Patting her thylacine
In Scots such forks are 'graips'.
I like to store mine in the backs of my enemies.
I like to store mine in the backs of my enemies.
MissTyc
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This is a slightly bizarre thread but at least I've learnt something new today.
I never knew the prongy bits of a pitchfork were called tines!! I do now
In answer to the question, tines (ooohhh errr) down. Why would you ever store it handle down unless you deliberately want to see someone get hurt?
Neither did I! But I included it in my response confidently, as though I already knew.
I tend to refer to them as a the stabby side.
poiuytrewq
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I may do this from today onwards ?
mariew
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Oh awesome, that must be from Scandinavia! In Sweden they are called 'grep' pronounced 'grehp' with a long eh sound. My share horse a very long time ago had an accident when the field got lose. We never knew exactly what it was but he had stabbed himself on something long and pointy in the neck, could well have been a fork. Sadly he didn't survive as it turned out he'd also broken a bit of a vertebrae off. Hence I have great respect for forks
Dreamer515
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Tines down and always put a broom in front of them so if anything gets loose it wont stab its self.
It was how we were taught at college and I now do it all the time even with shaving forks. drives me insane to see forks put away incorrectly (in my eyes) but I'd never move anyone else's unless it was a safety risk.
It was how we were taught at college and I now do it all the time even with shaving forks. drives me insane to see forks put away incorrectly (in my eyes) but I'd never move anyone else's unless it was a safety risk.
SussexbytheXmasTree
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Yeah not great if in an area where horses have access although mine would be in my storage where horses don’t enter (except when they break free and go looking for open feed bins ?). The ones Keith pictured are safer.
Arzada
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With the tines pointing towards the wall not outwards towards a likely victim
Arzada
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And please don't use one to shoo a hen off your wheelbarrow. Happened at a local yard, the poor hen didn't move and was killed.
Gingerwitch
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Hiw awful poor chook
Keith_Beef
Novice equestrian, accomplished equichetrian
Clips like that were installed at the yard where I ride, to hold bamboo-handled brooms for sweeping in from of boxes; one for every three or four boxes. Except that the bright spark who thought of that didn't think that some horses will play with anything within reach, and they were installed too close... so the horse reached out and pulled sideways on the broom handles, breaking the clips.
Velcrobum
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As I have my own little yard things are stored on secure clips out of horse reach. Tines pointing down and in against the wall. My yard my rules except OH does not comply...................
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I worked in a showing and showjumping yard years back, for someone who is still alive and sponsors at H.........d?. Horrible family. The son once stabbed a pitchfork through a rat, just under It’s spine. Poor thing was screaming and the son just laughed. He then bashed it against the stable wall to kill it. The dad once put a rat, caught in a cage, in a metal dustbin with lid on, picked up their jack Russell and chucked him in the dustbin with the lid back on. The family thought it was hilarious. Horrible man. I still see him sometimes many years later and he still makes my blood boil. ?