So this afternoon I split some nice, dry cottonwoood from a windfall near the neighbor-across-the-river’s driveway. My son had bucked it up. I brought it home and split most of it (some was tough enough that it will wait for the hydraulic splitter). When I finished, there were some small pieces laying around, and a bunch of bark left from the year’s firewood work. To save time, I got out the spading fork to pick it up. Then, somewhere in my cobwebby brain, this surfaced:
And we actually have one, sitting all alone in the barn. It’s big enough that it’s heavier than I like for stall litter or compost, but for bark, it worked great!
You can see both forks, 4 tine and 10 tine. No question which worked better for this job.
Thanks, Steve