Garden Tools: Pitchfork

A pitchfork is an agricultural tool with a long handle and two to five tines used to lift and pitch or throw loose material, such as hay, straw, manure, or leaves and It is used for loosening, lifting, and turning over soil. The term is also applied colloquially, but inaccurately, to the garden fork (the garden fork is shorter and stockier than the pitchfork).