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Blasts from the Past

PICKS-PICKAXE -PICK HANDLES or just plain picks--now once again there are various ways to use the term----like-- pass me the" pick" means you intend to get fair dinkum and use it,if someone says pass me the "pick" please, its means he's a polite newby to the use thereof and your going to see some fun.

Like the shovel the pick is hard yakka until you get into the swing of things, now if i get to choose between a pick and a shovel, as much as i detest both, give me the shovel any day, for its a seat as well as something to lean on when watching others hard at it .

As a seat the pick is useless owing to the fact its pointed one end a wedge shape at the other ( bit hard on the kyber pass) if sat on, and being curved like a rocking chair is no good to lean against. I have seen men with shoulders as wide as a pick handle and built to match use words you would not usually use in front of ladies when using a pick on hard ground without testing first with that other weapon of torture the crowbar.

The common crowbar is usually 6 feet in length, thin,wedge shaped at the business end and used by lifting up high and ramming down hard (if the boss is watching) causing a hole in the ground, then by working around the first hole made you enlarge it ,you must remember not to strike twice in the same place for its like lightening --expending energy for nothing.

Once you think you have made an impression a long handled post hole shovel may be used to remove the loose soil (show a bit of effort here to make it look good) now if you only need a hole continue with the crowbar and post hole shovel, if its a trench continue with the pick not too far in from the beginning of the hole we don't want to hurt ourselves do we, I'll give you another clue here-- Never lay a crowbar down on the ground because on a sunny day even though said bar is thin it can soon get bloody hot in a hurry----that from experience.

THE PICKAXE though why its called a pickaxe beats me nothing like an axe at all, i reckon it was named by a committee, one pickaxe i have used for many years is stamped on a 26 fluid ounce dark brown bottle full of the amber fluid which i prefer cold, poured into a glass with a nice foamy head on it---lovely stuff after a hard day using a pick.

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-------------------------------------we used them all in the good old days-------------------------------------

posted on Dec 12, 2012 12:57 AM ()

Comments:

My fave part of this post is the puppy!
comment by kristilyn3 on Dec 13, 2012 7:11 AM ()
some puppy
reply by kevinshere on Dec 13, 2012 11:02 PM ()
I'll join you for that beer!
comment by marta on Dec 12, 2012 6:24 PM ()
or 2 or more
reply by kevinshere on Dec 13, 2012 11:01 PM ()
Kevin, I hope to never make their acquaintance.
comment by elderjane on Dec 12, 2012 9:13 AM ()
very unlikely
reply by kevinshere on Dec 13, 2012 11:01 PM ()
Sounds like 'chain gang' talk! This reminds me, our dirt is so hard here we'll need to break out the pickaxe!
comment by maggiemae on Dec 12, 2012 5:30 AM ()
it got to a 100 deg today a pickaxe coldy went down well
reply by kevinshere on Dec 13, 2012 11:00 PM ()

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