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Pitching hay. A pitchfork or hay fork is an agricultural tool used to pitch loose material, such as hay, straw, manure, or leaves. It has a long handle and usually two to five thin tines designed to efficiently move such materials. The term is also applied colloquially, but inaccurately, to the garden fork.
A pitchfork is used to hurl a hessian bag stuffed with straw over a horizontal bar above the competitor's head. [1] Typical weight for the bag is 16 or 20 pounds (7.3 or 9.1 kg). [2] Three chances are given to each competitor to cleanly go over the bar.
Pitchfork, a tool that farmers use to manually move hay; Hay fork (machine), the grapple device used together with ropes and pulleys to move hay from a hay wagon to a haystack in a barn loft; Hayfork, California, a census-designated place in Trinity County, California
The number of tines on tools varies widely – a pitchfork may have just two, a garden fork may have four, and a rake or harrow many. Tines may be blunt, such as those on a fork used as an eating utensil; or sharp, as on a pitchfork; or even barbed, as on a trident. The terms tine and prong are mostly interchangeable. A tooth of a comb is a tine.
A hay tedder, similar to a standard American model of the early 20th century, with tines shaped like pitchfork ends [9] A Bamford Wuffler. The original tedder is a farm tool on two wheels pulled by a horse; the rotation of the axle drives a gear which operates a "number of arms with wire tines or fingers at the lower ends."
A 2023 analysis cited by Boston Consulting Group valued the global market share of no- or low-alcohol beers, wines, and spirits at more than $13 billion and said sales were expected to grow at an ...
Military fork, ca. late 16th - early 17th century. About 2.5 metres overall. On display at Morges military museum. A military fork is a polearm which was used in Europe between the 15th and 19th centuries. Like many polearms, the military fork traces its lineage to an agricultural tool, in this case the pitchfork. [1]
Poison Profits. A HuffPost / WNYC investigation into lead contamination in New York City