Hoes Have Blades Too

One, which needs re-handling. I have the handle. It just needs to get to the top of the to-do list. It's an American Fork & Hoe hoe. I re-finished a nice vintage English digging fork not long ago. The tines are forged out of a single piece of steel not welded. Much better that way.
 
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I wouldn't say I collect them, but I very much enjoy the class of tools and have done some amount of research on them. If I stumbled across a vintage one in good shape at a fair price it would be hard to say no. :)
 
Square_peg said:
One, which needs re-handling. I have the handle. It just needs to get to the top of the to-do list. It's an American Fork & Hoe hoe. I re-finished a nice vintage English digging fork not long ago. The tines are forged out of a single piece of steel not welded. Much better that way.
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I love old forged spades and digging forks..

Were AF&H the only ones to make that square topped eye? When did they start using the brand True Temper on their hoes?
 
A couple: 2-3 grub hoe heads (one is a Warwood that I use regularly), 4-5 handles for them, a True Temper Papagayo that a previous owner took some off of each side to narrow - I am guessing at the motivation.





Couple of others but I'd have to look at them closer.
 
The hoe pictured in post #4 is a goose neck hoe and the others are eye hoes. The eye hoes are much stronger and easier to rehandle. DM
 
Agent_H said:
A couple: 2-3 grub hoe heads (one is a Warwood that I use regularly), 4-5 handles for them, a True Temper Papagayo that a previous owner took some off of each side to narrow - I am guessing at the motivation.





Couple of others but I'd have to look at them closer.
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I passed on one similar to the bottom pic years ago that was near mint...still kickin' my but all these years later!
 
After reading about the company in the Whole Earth Catalog, I bought an American made Scovil eye hoe back around 1975 and I'm still using it in the garden. Wish we still made real tools like that in the U.S today.
 
Nice hoes. That TT is a pretty thing. I planted 5 rhododendron bushes yesterday and got some hoe time in.

Noticed the cross wedge there on one of your eye hoes. I was thinking this for my user grub hoe - rectangular eye. Is the crosswedge a sort of a fix to the keep the handle in use or is it common to just set them before the head starts to loosen? In general, that is.

Square_peg, that fork is beautiful. Nice work on that.

Square_peg said:
Here's the digging fork.

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I see a lot of "hoedads" here but in this picture, haven't seen a grub hoe with that wide of blade attached as such. Pretty cool. Also, in your pic here,
Square_peg said:
This grub hoe has almost the exact same cast base as the WFE planting hoe.

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The tool on the right, is this a wood working tool? I have several adzes and one almost identical but mine seems pretty long for log use. Yours looks like the grind on it more wood related than soil and the poll of course. I'll get a picture but I think mine doesn't have an extended poll. It might also be I've never seen these things in a more intact condition.

This is a great thread.
 
Square_peg said:
Here's the digging fork.

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Neat! I have an American-made coal shovel (Star?) with that exact same tang attachment system. It's not available to me at the moment (for picture-purposes) but I do recall that part of the tang stamp reads Pat 1918.
 
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