4550DF Traditional Stainless Steel Digging Fork

Firstly this is a great garden fork, strong and nice to use. However, 2 years after I bought it, I managed to snap it in half (too much leverage, trying to move a plant). I noticed it had a 10 year guarantee sticker on, tried to contact Amazon, there is no facility on Amazon for customer feedback after 2 years, so I contacted Spear and Jackson. Well their customer service is outstanding. I don't usually write reviews but this made me make the effort. They replied: 'I can see from the pictures and the receipt you’ve attached that you are eligible for a Free of Charge replacement under the 10 year guarantee.' No hassle, no postage fee and now I have a lovely replacement fork.

This is such a solid tool and works well, easy to handle and not too heavy!

This is a very pretty fork, which would look good in anyone's tool shed. I can thoroughly recommend it if your soil is friable and easily worked, e.g. a vegetable bed, which has been dug regularly each season and has benefitted from the regular addition of compost. If yours is a new garden, however, say on a new housing estate, where the builder has buried the usual rubble of half bricks, wall ties and timber offcuts, this is not the fork for you. The manufacturer warns against using it to lever up roots and the like but frankly this is a tad disingenuous. The soil in my garden is sandy and therefore very light. I had recently had some landscaping work carried out as a result of which the soil had become compacted and I wanted to fork it over to loosen it and to remove perennial weeds. For 90% of the time the fork worked well. It was light to use, it penetrated the soil easily and the soil did not cling to the tines. But then I would come across a piece of buried root. The root would be less than 2 cm in diameter and less than 0.5 m long but, if one of the end tines caught on it, the tine would bend. It is inevitable, when digging, that you will hit buried objects. The heavier the soil, the more force is required to dig it and the more likely it is that such things will happen. Which is why I say that the manufacturer's warning is disingenuous. It is a very attractive fork. It is light to use and to keep clean. But, it is not a fork for digging. It is a fork for forking.

Excellent quality. Fab price. Can’t believe how good it is

This is one hellava garden fork. Solid, strong goes through earth like a hot knife through butter. The tool does all the work. Excellent value for money. Worth spending a few pounds more

Great. As a woman it just the right weight for the allotment

Great garden fork, used it for the first time today on a new allotment that was covered in grass. I strummed the grass down then dug over with the fork. Very easy to use

One of prongs snapped clean when using to dig up roots, not great

Great and high quality garden fork! Will buy again.

I love this garden fork! It is sturdy and has a lovely streamlined handle design. Tested it and it works well.

Very Nice. Worth every penny. Heavy Duty.

Functional

Quality product at a reasonable price