The firm of Sneeboer began manufacturing garden tools in 1913, and were in the 1940s amongst the first to embrace the use of stainless steel. Originally designed to withstand the rigours of daily use by the professional horticulturalists and commercial growers of West-Friesland, with its heavy clay rich soil, and still hammer forged, ground, and assembled entirely by hand, they offer the home or allotment gardener tools of rare and exceptional quality. This is an ash handled 3 tined digging fork, strong enough to cope with all soil types and conditions. The tines are forged and ground flat to their front edge, sharp to the tip, and triangular to the rear, to most effectively cut through and loosen soil. The fork has a total length of about 117cm, which is longer than most, a shaped T handle, brass rivets, and is quite narrow at about 16cm.