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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
A garden fork, spading fork, or digging fork (in the past also an asparagus fork, [1] the same name as a very different utensil) is a gardening implement, with a handle and a square-shouldered head featuring several (usually four) short, sturdy tines.
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 synonymous. A tooth of a comb is a tine.
A pitchfork an agricultural tool with a long handle used to lift and throw loose material. Pitchfork may also refer to: Pitchfork, by Clutch, 1991; Pitchfork (band), an American post-hardcore band; Pitchfork, a 2016 horror film; Pitchfork, an American online music publication Pitchfork Music Festival, an annual event
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]
Ted's Montana Grill is an American restaurant chain. The company was founded by media mogul and bison rancher Ted Turner , along with restaurateur George McKerrow Jr. , with the help of corporate chef Chris Raucci, as a for-profit effort to stop the extinction of the American bison .