Spear & Jackson 4550DF Traditional Stainless Steel Digging Fork

Great gardening fork. Strong and sturdy. Still going, as it should.

Really good fork that I somehow managed to catch and break a prong on, however they were happy to send me a new one and honour the 10 year warranty. Kudos!

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 quallity for the price. Fast service in great packaging.

Was a replacement for one I had for over 16 years, delivery was good and checking out the new one seems to be just as good for another 16 years.

As you would expect from a brand this well known, a great, strong well made gardening fork.

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

Brought this in March 2026 and today digging in my soil garden to pot new plants the two middle folks snapped off WILL NOT BE PURCHASING AGAIN

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.

Functional

Un ottimo attrezzo e robusto.

Muy estable, muy buena. Manejable, no se dobla. La madera no te deja astillas en la mano porque está bien lijada y lacada. Es un lujo trabajar con esta horca. Nunca más otra!