Garden fork

I had mentioned many times to Brian that we have two garden forks, one for heavy work, and one for lighter work. However, he has a tendency to get carried away with the tool at hand, and when an unexpectedly tough root got in the way he didn’t change up to the heavier and stronger fork and sure enough, there was a nasty splintering sound, that wasn’t the root giving up. In fairness though it was an old garden fork, but one I liked, as it wasn’t big and heavy.

Once upon a time, when we were much, much busier, we would probably have just gone and replaced the whole fork, but nowadays Brian has the time, and the inclination, to make the best of everything we have. So he set about fixing the old one. He bought me a new handle, drilled out the rivet of the old one, planed and whittled the new handle to fit, then created a new rivet to hold it in place. À voila, I now have a new garden fork waiting at home and ready to use.