Hi Ya, I agree with TeeGee, don't buy the basket one and if you do really want to then buy the wider tined one for digging up the spuds. I to have considered getting one and still am as I seem to spike spuds quite often. I wa stold as youngster that the flat tined was the proper spud fork. On the farm we used the basket type, we called a scubbins, to shovel of mangels to the cattle in the field from the back of a trailer as it drove round the field. I would definatly go for the flat tines. I would be interested where you saw it for sale, Happy Gardening.