Pickaxe

The pimples, also pick, pick, pick pick, is a hand tool with a tip that attaches at right angles to a handle. He used to work with stone, both on bare rock, and in the earth, while the hoe / rake is designed to work in the ground - where the soil is rocky, the two tools mix manifold.

Construction and function

The tool consists in smaller versions of a mostly metal tip that can also be slightly curved, often supplemented by a counterweight. The tool handle is about two meters long, depending on the scope of hand- to - span. To see scarf: scarf ( pre-and early history ).

The pick is used for breaking ice, hard soil or stone, formerly of Wagner, cooper's work. The impulse that arises when swinging the tool - in combination with the small impact surface - increases the ability to penetrate into the material. The rash is generally not designed for levers: Hardened tips break it off easily.

The cross pimple has two peaks, the stem is in the center of the iron piece to.

• Mixed form of pimples and hoe / rake is the flat pick with a sharp and a quergeschäfteten, flattened Hack sheet - it is than the pickaxe ' par viewed, although the term is imprecise
• A hybrid between pimples and Hammer is the pick hammer of geologists, as well as mountain iron and cocked hat of stone processing
• And the ice pick high alpine equipment

In principle similar tool is the Sapie forestry technology

Prior to the construction of excavators and other modern machinery for mining and Erdbearbeitung pimples were together with spades, shovels, and wheelbarrows, the main tools in earthworks, about the excavations, ditches and canals, or Erdgewinnung for dams and ramps as well as the digging of rhizomes.

Flat pickaxe (front 7) and pimples ( 8) from Pompeii, 79 AD

Pick hoe and spade ( topped with a wheel, emblem of Moeglingen )