Pimple (tool)

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Common pimple (flat pickaxe)

The pickaxe, also picke, pickaxe, pickaxe, also called staples in Austrian-German , is a hand tool with two points that are attached to a handle in opposite pairs. It is used to work with stone, both on bare rock and in the ground, while the flat hoe / rake is used to work in the ground. Where the ground is stony, the two uses mix in a diverse way.

Construction and function

Flat pickaxe , pointed side in action

The historical tool consists in smaller versions of a mostly metal tip, which can also be slightly curved. The modern tool has two opposing tips that complement each other as a counterweight. The tool handle is, depending on the application, from hand-clamping to two meters long and made of ash or beech wood. For the shaft see: shaft (prehistory and early history) .

The pick is used to hit ice , hard earth or stone , and in the past also for wagner and cooper work . The momentum that arises when the tool vibrates - in combination with the small impact surface - increases the ability to penetrate the material. The pimple is generally not designed to be levered : hardened tips break out easily.

The cross pick has two points, the handle is in the middle of the iron piece.

  • A hybrid form between pickaxe and hoe / rake is the flat pickaxe with a pointed and a cross-operated, flattened hoe blade - it is regarded as the "pickaxe" par excellence, although the name is imprecise.
  • Mixed forms between pick and hammer are the pick hammer used by geologists as well as recovery iron and bicorn used for stone processing.
  • The ice ax is part of high alpine equipment.
  • A basically similar tool is the sapie of forest technology.

Before the construction of excavators and other modern machines for earthmoving and earthworking, picks, together with spades , shovels and wheelbarrows, were the main tools used in earthworks , for example for digging pits , trenches and canals or for excavating embankments and ramps as well as digging root stocks .

literature

  • General Swiss military magazine . Verlag Huber & Co. AG, Frauenfeld December 1970, No. 12, 136th year, PDF .
  • Theodor Heinsius: Complete dictionary of the German language. Third volume, R. Sammer publishing house, Vienna 1840.

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