What is it

[fixerupper]

I have seen these forks before but I never knew what it is intended for. Looks like a mini corn rake. The handle is full length. This is in Iowa of that means anything.

This post was edited by fixerupper on 11/15/2021 at 03:50 pm.

 

[Bob Harvey]

Garden cultivating ?

 

[funky_g00]

I would say it is a 4-tine garden cultivator. They are still sold in stores. As a kid I did use them as a corn rake.

 

[DoubleO7]

Might be a clam rake, but it looks like pretty stout tines for that.


Clam and Crab rake

This post was edited by DoubleO7 on 11/15/2021 at 04:37 pm.

 

[Billy Shafer]

I grew up calling them field rakes. For cotton,corn and other plants.
Dad called them blister rakes.

 

[shaun wallace]

Garden cultivator, had one at home, been gone from home a long time. Bought one while back at lumber yard, use to pull bigger sticks in to pile and what else I can think it mite work for.

 

[paul]

I assume a weeding rake as others say, worked very good for raking corn cobs in the spreader when we shelled corn. Big ones for the ear corn, that little one for the
cobs.

Paul

 

[T.R.K.]

Grandmother used hers like a hoe. I am thinking she used it for working around smaller plants.

 

[fixerupper]

So it is just a general all purpose narrow long tooth rake. Nothing special. Thanks for the ideas.

 

[wore out]

(quoted from post at 19:43:50 11/15/21) So it is just a general all purpose narrow long tooth rake. Nothing special. Thanks for the ideas.

GOOGLE "4 prong garden cultivator" or "4 prong garden weeder".

 

[gab]

I bought a new one a few years ago, use it for a cultivator in the garden.

 

[Moonlite37]

Sold one at a sale a few months ago. I saw no use for it after putting a handle in it.

 

[Stroby]

...they do a pretty good job of tearing a hole in a beaver dam....

 

[DaleinWV]

Have one similar - always called it a potato rake... maybe my tines a bit longer, though.

 

[Geo-TH,In]

A rake for old people who can't handle a full size rake. I have one and I'm old.
You have heard of a quarter horse. This is a quarter rake, a quarter the size of a
full size rake.

 

[Bspauld]

We used a rake like this to pull silage out of the wagon,

 

[Texasmark]

I have 2, one I wore out over the years. Use them for their intended cultivating purpose and also as a rake, not for leaves but when I
want to drag something from one place to another when a hoe is not the best choice. Handy tool I keep handy.

 

[Michael Soldan]

Thais exactly what I was thinking , usually on a long handle

 

[DoubleR]

I think the original intent is to use it as a cultivator. I got two of them and use them all the
time for about everything but a cultivator.

 

[DoubleR]

We used one too back in the day for that but it was bigger. More like a full sized manure fork with a 90 degree bend.

 

[JimDRIl]

My wife uses one about every day (in season) weeding in the gardens.

 

[Brian G. NY]

Looks like a potato hook to me. Used for digging potatoes and garden cultivating. I use mine a lot but I haven't had a real garden or potato patch in many years. I used it just last week to clean out the leaves in the ditches around the place.

 

[VicS]

When I was a kid. There was a big red cabinet at the foot of a fire tower. Manned by college kids. There was a half dozen of them in the cabinet plus same amount of picks and pointed shovels and axes.