Three-Pronged Wooden Hayfork
Dimensions152 × 44 × 9.5 cm
Credit LineTransfer from the London and Middlesex Historical Society, 1958
Object number1958.001.231
Label TextThis wooden hayfork would have been used to pitch material including hay, straw, leaves, and manure. The more tines (prongs) a tool had, the more efficient it would be for moving materials. Efficiency was a priority before the mechanization of agricultural work, when reaping, threshing, and pitching was done by hand.
NameHayfork
c. 1800-1850
1976
