Wooden Grain Pitchfork
Wooden Grain Pitchfork
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- Description
- This wooden grain fork was used during the late 19th century. Wide tined pitch forks like this were used to pitch hay, grains, straw, and other agricultural products. Before the mechanization of harvesting by combines, reaping, threshing, and winnowing were done by hand with simple tools like this wooden pitchfork.
- Object Name
- pitchfork, barley
- Measurements
- overall: 150 cm; 59 1/16 in
- ID Number
- AG.63A01
- catalog number
- 63A01
- accession number
- 252786
- Credit Line
- Gordon Dentry
- See more items in
- Work and Industry: Agriculture and Natural Resources
- American Enterprise
- Agriculture
- Exhibition
- American Enterprise
- Exhibition Location
- National Museum of American History
- Data Source
- National Museum of American History
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