Fed up with forks!

[Aberdeenplotter]

Womble, please do take the time to complain again. If nothing else it may prompt them to improve their design construction and prevent others having the same problems. I'm gardening for a living and have a few SS forks and also a couple on my allotment. Some with plastic handles and some timber and no problems with any of them. You have maybe just been really unlucky.

[chris]

I've broken 5 S&J 'Neverbend' SS forks/spades - they're rubbish. I've had replacements each time, but this weekend gone the weld on the 'V' part connecting to a border spade went. I'm going to demand my money back tonight... going to replace them with bulldog spades/forks next time. At least I'll definately know they're UK made, and I've only heard praises about them.

[Minamoo]

I was so confused by the talk of this azada tool. How surprised I was to see that it is in fact a jembe and the single most widely used agricultural tool in kenya! lol!

I have A SPork and love it to bits! It's seriously speeded up digging over my new raised beds. I can use it to cut the turf (which is does MUCH easier than a spade) and turn over the soil with ease. A truly wonderful tool!

[zazen999]

I thought I'd update you on this old thread.

I kept the new (free, sent to me, after the other broke) Stainless, Spear and Jackson fork. Even after I bent one tine the first time I used it.

Started to use it this year, heard what sounded like a few ominous cracks, but even though I thought it may have been whatever I was digging, I went easy on it. It did alright until yesterday, when the head broke clean off.
To be totally honest, I hardly put any stress on it at all.

My OH wanted me to contact S&J again and get a replacement, but I can't be bothered anymore. I've put it down to experience and bought a std Bulldog garden fork, I hope it lasts better than the other ones.
I just need one that I can reply on.

Hey sweetie - have you ever heard of 'Wilkinsons'.

I bought spades and forks from here thinking the kids at my schools would bend/break/snap/prang them and not one has even got a scratch on it and not one tine bent. And they have been used regularly by the kids over the last year....including digging holes for a polytunnel and redigging a flinty kitchen garden over twice...Our own green [really really cheap wilko] ones at the lottie are now in their 4th year of digging in our thick clay soil...mainly digging couch grass and horseradish out - the horseradish takes some digging I can tell you.

[womble]

Hey sweetie - have you ever heard of 'Wilkinsons'.

I bought spades and forks from here thinking the kids at my schools would bend/break/snap/prang them and not one has even got a scratch on it and not one tine bent. And they have been used regularly by the kids over the last year....including digging holes for a polytunnel and redigging a flinty kitchen garden over twice...Our own green [really really cheap wilko] ones at the lottie are now in their 4th year of digging in our thick clay soil...mainly digging couch grass and horseradish out - the horseradish takes some digging I can tell you.

Post 17, handle broken I do like the Wilkinsons tools though, had a few good ones.

I used my new Bulldog fork today funnily enough, by gum it feels a bit more substantial than any fork I've had before.
And............ I didn't break it, hurray!