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THE TOOLS
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and locate the typical large stones
of a good part of Majorcan
constructions. It should
be said that the perpal and
perpalina are also used for
splitting stones when these
showed some cracks.
• Tools for levelling and tracing
drystone walls, walls and pavements.
Margers and bricklayer shared the
needed of tracing drystone walls and
walls or correctly level stone constructions.
This meant that the same
tools were used for construction with
ciment or for aligning the stones (ginyola,
regIe).
Finally, there is a series of tools
with a different function: the
matras for to giving consistency
to stone constructions;
the civera to sieve
the soil and the gravel
for filling the joints
between the stones;
and the capserrat
to help selecting the
stones and give them shape in polygonal
walls.
Many of these tools which are
still used by margers, were
already widely present in
goods inventories in the 15th
century and have undergone
few modifications 7
with time. A whole series
of tools characteristic of
other trades or regions have been
brought in (pic, mall, punxo, maceta,
tal6s) and only stone extraction and
transport jobs have been mechanised.
The civeres, carretes and carreretes
have been replaced by mechanical
means, whereas for quarrying
tasks, compressors are used instead
of manuelles and the use of heavy
machinery is at present widely extended
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