This pin marks the Big Thing itself. If stopping, choose a safe and legal place nearby.
Site-level location · 42.9890° S, 147.2899° E
FIELD GUIDE
The story
An oversized garden fork stands outside a trade site at Huntingfield, south of Hobart, and it is doing the plainest job in the catalogue.
Current specialist directories list the Big Pitchfork at 10 Huntingfield Avenue, and a 2025 Wikimedia photograph documents it in place – which for an object of this kind is unusually good confirmation, since most commercial markers of this sort are recorded only by a passing enthusiast if at all.
A garden fork is a good subject for the same reason a coat hanger is. It is all silhouette: a handle, a shaft and four tines, entirely legible in outline and impossible to mistake for anything else even at a distance and at speed. Solid objects need detail to read; tools need only their shape.
Huntingfield sits in the Kingborough municipality between Hobart and the Channel country, an area of light industrial and trade premises serving the southern suburbs and the Huon. A hardware and trade supplier there is competing with identical sheds, and an enormous tool on the frontage solves that in one move.
Tasmania has a surprising number of giant tools for a small state – the axe at Longley, the chainsaw at Burnie, the pencils on the stationery shop roof – which together suggest a regional habit rather than a coincidence.
The object is on commercial ground rather than public land, and it is a marker rather than a destination.
No record survives of the year it went up or the maker's name.
Photograph
This is a photograph, shown separately from the illustration artwork.
Current specialist directories continue to list the Big Pitchfork at 10 Huntingfield Avenue, and a 2025 Wikimedia photograph documents the object in place.
ACCESS
The Big Pitchfork is at Clennett's Mitre 10 Kingston, 10 Huntingfield Avenue. Use the operating store as the visitor destination and follow normal customer access and parking conditions.
