Bottle of wine and card or a box of veg homegrown of course or the promise of such by the end of the summer

You can buy a turfing iron if you want, but I always use a half moon lawn edger, cutting the turf into smallish sections ab out 2 inches down into the soil, and then lifting the edges with either the lawn edger or a spade and lifting them out. Otherwise you can hire a machine to sit on and do it with that.

A sit of lifter sounds easier! Only ever used a 'ground force; style one for a day and they require strength and a bit of rough treatment to push them along. I think you can get self propelled ones, but maybe to big depending on are. Most hire shops will do them,

if you use a nice sharp spade you can do a fairly good of it as it goes ive found .

In the States, the power tool is called a sod cutter, and they can be rented in several different sizes, including ride on--for those with an estate or sod farm! : )

The hand tool of choice here is the garden spade, if kept sharp. Best be in good shape to do more than a few square meters, though!

The best turf lifter I have is a spade I bought, used to get a tough plant out and the handle bent just above the spade shaft. It is at just the right angle for lifting any turves. And I do it quite a bit, when widening borders or creating things. But when we originally lifted turves we hired a turf lifter. It was ok, but only removed the growth and soil above the roots. not a lot of good really. But we were removing paddock grass.

Then you've inadvertently created a turfing iron for yourself, 2ndhand - except they have a sort of heart shaped bit on the bottom, or spade shaped as in playing cards.