Metal basket style poop fork?

[riderboy]

![](‘m still lovin’ my Swedish muck fork. Been a year of daily use by me, the PoopMeister, and still going strong.

[IMG]http://imagizer.imageshack.us/v2/xq90/922/fNG6j4.jpg)

[ladymcts]

Well, it’s not a metal basket, but something like this is the best metal fork I’ve found:
https://www.amazon.com/Truper-30331-54-Inch-Bedding-10-Tine/dp/B000KL6RY2

I say “like this,” because I had fond memories of the metal forks we used at the barn where I first learned to be around horses as a teenager. They looked similar to this but even wider, and tines very close together. We used a fine sawdust, so these were excellent at grabbing up a whole big wet glop of a pee spot, as well as “scooping” after a poop pile. (I was working in a commercial facility where appearance was important so we picked stalls hourly.)

So the closest I found in recent years was one I saw in person at some tack shop in another state. The moment I saw it I bought it. I believe it has “bear” in its name somewhere. But some quick googling and I wasn’t able to turn it up. So this Amazon fork is the closest I could find that looks like it visually.

Since I’ve had it, I’ve had numerous horse people oggle it and ask me where I got it. It does have the drawback of being heavy, but I’m a strong person and when I took care of my horses’ boarding barn for a couple of weeks, I went ahead and brought my fork with me. I still prefer it to what they had.

[js]

Where do you buy the Swedish muck fork in the US?

[danacat]

As for the Swedish Muck Fork… Go to the Sverige Grepen AB Facebook page:

https://www.facebook.com/sverigegrepen/

…and watch the insane video on this fork – shows a guy mashing/smashing/stepping on it. The thing is unbreakable!

Can’t see where to buy it in USA. But some were sold on ebay recently – for 60 bucks looks like. Yikes.

[csaper58]

@Mukluk

All I can find are the plastic ones and they eventually break. So any one know where I could get a metal one?

This is it www.ribbrakes.com/recreational-rakes/ Yes it says they customize!!!

Send a photo of what you want, see what they say.

[danacat]

@csaper58

This is it www.ribbrakes.com/recreational-rakes/ Yes it says they customize!!!

Send a photo of what you want, see what they say.

WOW! Really great rakes! Thanks for posting!

[Mukluk]

Wow the rib rake looks good- the wide mouth one. Lower down on the page they had an eel rake, I don’t think my eel would like that thing too much. The Swedish Muck fork features superior engineering in that the handle goes half way down the rake offering much better durability. Thanks all- the thought of purchasing what could be my last muck fork fills me with Glee and Unbridled Joy!!!

[PNWjumper]

I got one of the wave forks after years of breaking the plastic basket-style rakes (and thinking nothing other than a metal version could ever live up to them): https://www.statelinetack.com/item/wave-fork-assembled/E015922/

I absolutely love it! I’m going on year 3 or 4. I’ve had to replace a tine once and the side pieces once (thank you, children, for thinking that raking the frozen leaves in the yard required beating the rake into the ground repeatedly, sigh). But so nice to not have to replace the whole head or entire manure fork in entirety! I’m pretty hard on my rakes because I so often have to re-channel water around the edges of my shelters and entrance into stalls. So I’m frequently stabbing it into the ground and flinging out chunks of compacted dirt. This one has held up better than anything else I’ve ever used.

[Mallard]

Swedish one one looks very heavy

In nearly 24 years here on this farm I am only on plastic fork #3.
I hate the ones with ‘baskets’… they are too heavy.

A friend had a metal one and the tines bent and became unuseable.