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Description
An iron bar with two sharp steeled
heads.
Size
1.7 m long and 2.5 cm in diameter.
Approximate weight
6.3 kg.
Materials of the parts
Iron
Use
Make of boreholes for using dynamite
for baking the stone and also for
cracking the stones with wedges.
Ways of using it
The tool is used by a single man, rises
it and drops it on a rock, it is turned
slightly and lifted and dropped again.
A circular movement is thus made
until a sufficiently large hole is made
to insert the wedge (approximately 20
cm). Roughly a person could make
ten holes in a day.