There are times that I want forks for carrying things around that are on a pallet, at least it would be helpful if I had such a thing. I had in my collection of junk a piece of channel that I thought would make a good set of forks. So I cut the channel to length with the torch, bent it to make the fork and then tapered it to make it more "fork like."
The forks lay around for awhile in this state, but one day I decided that just bent was not enough so I began reinforcing in a bit with patches on the sides of the bent area. But they are looking like forks!
Then as I thought about it I decided that they could do with some internal strengthening too. So I welded a rib into the channel part of the fork around the bend.
Then they lay for a while longer, while I did other, certainly more important things.
The saga will continue.
Mike