"We're all just walking each other home." -Ram Dass
"Be a lamp, or a lifeboat, or a ladder."-Rumi
"It's all one song!" -Neil Young
"We're all just walking each other home." -Ram Dass
"Be a lamp, or a lifeboat, or a ladder."-Rumi
"It's all one song!" -Neil Young
"We're all just walking each other home." -Ram Dass
"Be a lamp, or a lifeboat, or a ladder."-Rumi
"It's all one song!" -Neil Young
Owner, Etta Place Cider
Ann Torrence wrote:What do you do with them?
There's a joke to be made about arming mobs and mob-grazing, but I can't quite get there.
"We're all just walking each other home." -Ram Dass
"Be a lamp, or a lifeboat, or a ladder."-Rumi
"It's all one song!" -Neil Young
Peter Ellis wrote:Wonderful stuff. I have a couple of questions, if I may?
The finished fork at the top of the thread - it does not appear to have the dowels through the tines. Is it an example of a different style made without the dowels? I cannot imagine taking the dowels out from one such as is shown in the jig.
The one in the jig - it appears the dowels are nailed at each tine, is that correct?
I would guess that the holes for the dowels are drilled before the tines are cut. Would I be right?
Do not know when I will get around to trying this - so much on my plate already - but I definitely want to give it a go!
"We're all just walking each other home." -Ram Dass
"Be a lamp, or a lifeboat, or a ladder."-Rumi
"It's all one song!" -Neil Young
"We're all just walking each other home." -Ram Dass
"Be a lamp, or a lifeboat, or a ladder."-Rumi
"It's all one song!" -Neil Young
Judith Browning wrote:My husband is making pitchforks this week...I thought I would try to post pictures of the process...not as a tutorial, just for fun. He has made them for several years having learned from two other fork and rake makers here and an excellent book "Country Woodcraft by Drew Langsner, 1978 by Rodale Press. It is a process that needs all of his attention for a few days in order to get all of the forks in jigs before the wood dries out too much. I'll post more over the week.....
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Manfred Eidelloth wrote:Does the wood simply stay bent after drying? Or do you need to do something special to it?
I wonder why the wood is not cooked/steamed and then the wedging and bending done in hot condition? That should eliminate the risk of splitting and make the bending much easier?
Or would that have any negative effect on the finished product?
"We're all just walking each other home." -Ram Dass
"Be a lamp, or a lifeboat, or a ladder."-Rumi
"It's all one song!" -Neil Young
Ann Torrence wrote:This is fascinating. On the first fork, it looks like the handle has a most ergonomic bowed curve. Is that true? Natural? or another step in the process?
"We're all just walking each other home." -Ram Dass
"Be a lamp, or a lifeboat, or a ladder."-Rumi
"It's all one song!" -Neil Young
John Pollard wrote:
Judith Browning wrote:My husband is making pitchforks this week...I thought I would try to post pictures of the process...not as a tutorial, just for fun. He has made them for several years having learned from two other fork and rake makers here and an excellent book "Country Woodcraft by Drew Langsner, 1978 by Rodale Press. It is a process that needs all of his attention for a few days in order to get all of the forks in jigs before the wood dries out too much. I'll post more over the week.....
I've got that book. I like anything from Rodale. The library here is revamping their collection and giving away what they take off the shelves and this was one I snagged quickly with big eyes. I need to get my shop built this year so I'll have someplace to work next winter on projects like this. This winter about killed me being stuck in the cabin with nothing to do but dream and plan. I'm the type who always has to be doing something and have been working with my hands all my life. Every wood handled tool I have could use a new handle. I need to cut some bolts for axe handles soon and get them curing. I've done mostly metal working but would like to get into wood working. Cutting and welding metal makes for nasty fumes.
Has he made you a whorl yet?
"We're all just walking each other home." -Ram Dass
"Be a lamp, or a lifeboat, or a ladder."-Rumi
"It's all one song!" -Neil Young
John Polk wrote:That's really nice. I am glad that there are still people keeping this from becoming a lost art.
When a tool goes kaput, it becomes fire wood rather than landfill.
Judith Browning wrote:
Manfred Eidelloth wrote:Does the wood simply stay bent after drying? Or do you need to do something special to it?
I wonder why the wood is not cooked/steamed and then the wedging and bending done in hot condition? That should eliminate the risk of splitting and make the bending much easier?
Or would that have any negative effect on the finished product?
Manfred, The forks will stay in the jigs for a month, he says, longer if possible, and then they do stay bent. My fork in the picture is 10 years old and in use, with close to the same bend as when it came out of the jig. It relaxes a bit at first. I keep it in the house and oil with linseed oil often.
I'll be sure my husband sees your questions...we are out of my area here and I wouldn't want to give you misinformation...as far as I know this is one traditional way to make them, using green wood, worked fairly quickly to take advantage of the white oaks natural suppleness and, sometimes, not often, one just cracks.
edited a bit just now.
"We're all just walking each other home." -Ram Dass
"Be a lamp, or a lifeboat, or a ladder."-Rumi
"It's all one song!" -Neil Young
Dale Hodgins wrote:One thing not evident in the photos, is just how light these tools are as compared to strength. My brother uses a big heavy 7 tine steel fork to move light straw and hay. This is all he needs.
I have used a light 5 tine fork as a rake when cleaning up lawns after tree cutting. Regular fan rakes and garden rakes quickly clog with debris. Turn it over and it's a fork for loading the debris onto tarps or into garbage cans.
Do you have any rake photos ? Does he ever make forks with more tines ?
"We're all just walking each other home." -Ram Dass
"Be a lamp, or a lifeboat, or a ladder."-Rumi
"It's all one song!" -Neil Young
"We're all just walking each other home." -Ram Dass
"Be a lamp, or a lifeboat, or a ladder."-Rumi
"It's all one song!" -Neil Young
Jay Grace wrote:Does your husband make them just as a hobby or as a business?
Jay Grace wrote: Has he made any snaths?
(a handle for a scythe)
"We're all just walking each other home." -Ram Dass
"Be a lamp, or a lifeboat, or a ladder."-Rumi
"It's all one song!" -Neil Young
"We're all just walking each other home." -Ram Dass
"Be a lamp, or a lifeboat, or a ladder."-Rumi
"It's all one song!" -Neil Young
"We're all just walking each other home." -Ram Dass
"Be a lamp, or a lifeboat, or a ladder."-Rumi
"It's all one song!" -Neil Young
Jay C. White Cloud wrote:Judith...I am loving this...THANK YOU so very much!
Please thank your husband as well (his name please?) and without "front loading" too much as a teacher, as him some afternoon when using the draw knife (please don't say too much as this is part of a little experiment that has been going on for over twenty 30 years...I'll PM you the details, then post here later) ask him to try for just maybe 20 to 30 minutes using the drawknife with the "bevel side down" not up as he is in the photo.
Warm Regards,
j
"We're all just walking each other home." -Ram Dass
"Be a lamp, or a lifeboat, or a ladder."-Rumi
"It's all one song!" -Neil Young
"We're all just walking each other home." -Ram Dass
"Be a lamp, or a lifeboat, or a ladder."-Rumi
"It's all one song!" -Neil Young
"We're all just walking each other home." -Ram Dass
"Be a lamp, or a lifeboat, or a ladder."-Rumi
"It's all one song!" -Neil Young
"We're all just walking each other home." -Ram Dass
"Be a lamp, or a lifeboat, or a ladder."-Rumi
"It's all one song!" -Neil Young
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Lightly Burdwood-Porter wrote:Not even a little!
I have loved this thread and, now, will have to try my hand at it, thank you so much!
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Judith Browning wrote:...anyone else tired of pitchforks
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