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Post by 1dave on Jun 7, 2014 17:13:41 GMT -5
jamesp and @shotgunner , you may want to build one of these! This morning rockpowell and I visited Ranch Canyon. On the way out we met Jared and Gina from Santiquin Utah. He was kind enough to show us his Rock Splitter and demonstrate it! He built it all of stainless steel in high school shop! The chisel is threaded and easily changed. Drive the weight down to split rocks, up to pull the chisel out if it gets wedged. Jared, thanks for sharing!
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Post by Deleted on Jun 7, 2014 17:29:18 GMT -5
Looks like the slide from a dent puller.genious Dave
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Post by jamesp on Jun 7, 2014 19:57:54 GMT -5
I made a shovel like that for digging bamboo clumps for planting in 30 gallon pots Dave. Heck of a lot safer than a hammer and chisel. Most bamboo farms use a pneumatic jack hammer. I think this store bought will do chisels, shovels, gear pullers, tooth pullers...
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Post by bhiatt on Jun 7, 2014 20:34:54 GMT -5
idave, sweet first time. Wish I was there.
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Post by nowyo on Jun 7, 2014 23:02:55 GMT -5
Cool. Basically a big slide hammer. Now that's given me a couple of ideas, which is bad, because I have too many things going on already.
Did you find any cool rocks?
Russ
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Post by 1dave on Jun 8, 2014 6:07:36 GMT -5
Cool. Basically a big slide hammer. Now that's given me a couple of ideas, which is bad, because I have too many things going on already. Did you find any cool rocks? Russ That is the plan, jog people out of their ruts! Lots of granite, some 2 billion year old gneiss, a few chunks of snowflake obsidian, a tiny little red two year old girl's cowboy boot that was lost out on the hillside.
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Post by Rockoonz on Jun 8, 2014 14:55:15 GMT -5
Nice slide hammer, love it, and so timely since I just committed to buying a lathe and I have a lot of jackhammer bits.
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Post by rockjunquie on Jun 8, 2014 16:54:45 GMT -5
That thing brings back memories. I think I still have a few smaller ones in the shed. Hmmm.... If I still have the big one maybe I can do something like this. But then I would need really big rocks, too.
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Post by mohs on Jun 8, 2014 18:06:35 GMT -5
I did some body work on my van with that slide hammer or something similar yep I drove right into parking lot lamp post concrete stand about 5 miles sudden STOP ! I never saw it coming ! strange sensation old age mostly
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Post by beefjello on Jun 8, 2014 18:08:57 GMT -5
Cool tool Dave, and that shot heading to the ranch is gorgeous!
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Post by rockpickerforever on Jun 11, 2014 11:13:12 GMT -5
Love that first photo of the road, Dave. Real pretty country up there.
Slide hammers, yeah, I like it! They really do come in handy, I've got one just a tad bigger. This one is over four feet long, weighs about 30 lbs (well maybe not that much). The biggest downfall is the amount of room required to use it. Hard to get good taps when in confined holes.
Totally adjustable. Slide hammer comes apart so it can be moved to other either end.
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Pointed end
Lee, once you get that lathe, you'll wonder how you ever did without it! You'll be able to make all kinds of cool tools!
Dave, thanks for the post.
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Post by rockjunquie on Jun 11, 2014 13:42:47 GMT -5
Love that first photo of the road, Dave. Real pretty country up there.
Slide hammers, yeah, I like it! They really do come in handy, I've got one just a tad bigger. This one is over four feet long, weighs about 30 lbs (well maybe not that much). The biggest downfall is the amount of room required to use it. Hard to get good taps when in confined holes.
DING, DING, DING! You win the prize! That is one helluva slide hammer, right there! Ya never know when a girl might need one. (... And, I am not even gonna make a joke abt a guy needing one. Nope, not gonna go there. )
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Post by rockpickerforever on Jun 11, 2014 15:11:48 GMT -5
Lol, Tela! Because I just know someone's going to ask, I went and measured the beast. 52.5 inches long, made from 1" round stock (mild steel, I believe, and hardened after grinding the flat end), plus whatever the slide and stops are made from. Judging from the rust, will venture it is not stainless. It weighs 22 lbs, enough to make you think twice whether you are going to be needing it before you schlep it a mile away from your truck.
Just have to avoid pinching fingers in it, that dang thing can maul ya! No blood blisters for me, James! I bein' careful.
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Post by jamesp on Jun 11, 2014 16:14:34 GMT -5
Lol, Tela! Because I just know someone's going to ask, I went and measured the beast. 52.5 inches long, made from 1" round stock (mild steel, I believe, and hardened after grinding the flat end), plus whatever the slide and stops are made from. Judging from the rust, will venture it is not stainless. It weighs 22 lbs, enough to make you think twice whether you are going to be needing it before you schlep it a mile away from your truck. Just have to avoid pinching fingers in it, that dang thing can maul ya! No blood blisters for me, James! I bein' careful. That was used in WW2 to knock the turret of tanks. schlep? or is it the further south you get English language gets, uh, altered. altercated
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Post by rockpickerforever on Jun 11, 2014 16:46:47 GMT -5
Lol, Tela! Because I just know someone's going to ask, I went and measured the beast. 52.5 inches long, made from 1" round stock (mild steel, I believe, and hardened after grinding the flat end), plus whatever the slide and stops are made from. Judging from the rust, will venture it is not stainless. It weighs 22 lbs, enough to make you think twice whether you are going to be needing it before you schlep it a mile away from your truck. Just have to avoid pinching fingers in it, that dang thing can maul ya! No blood blisters for me, James! I bein' careful. That was used in WW2 to knock the turret of tanks. schlep? or is it the further south you get English language gets, uh, altered. altercated schlep Yiddish/German, so actually it is from much further north than me.
And I guess I am about 55 - 60 miles further south than you. But south of me they don't speak Yiddish, lol.
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Post by jamesp on Jun 11, 2014 18:25:36 GMT -5
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Post by 1dave on Jun 12, 2014 11:06:05 GMT -5
I LIKE THAT! Using a chisel on one end, a point on the other. As long as you don't get your foot. Pinch protectors needed?
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Post by rockpickerforever on Jun 12, 2014 11:42:34 GMT -5
Dave, glad you like it! When wielding it, you just have to “Be careful, be vewy, vewy careful. Ha-ha-ha-ha-ha!"
Whenever we go dig in the dirt at our friend's pegmatite claim, I am always offered heavy duty work gloves, which I refuse to wear. I like to be able to move my hands and feel what I am doing, and besides, gloves are for wimps! I am more likely to whack the back of my hand into something (large rock, bush branches), and either bruise it or take a hunk of skin off it. Not much meat there, and thin old skin (when did I get my mom's hands?).
I have yet to stab myself in the foot with it, lol.
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Post by Mark K on Jun 12, 2014 12:15:47 GMT -5
If I had been wearing gloves like I am supposed to, I would not have gotten hurt up on Strattford Hill when the rock fell off of the face and hit my hand mid air. It opened me up badly enough that I actually went into shock. It would have hurt like hell still, but it would not have cut me like it did.
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Post by rockpickerforever on Jun 12, 2014 12:50:14 GMT -5
Sorry to hear about your hand, foxtail. I do wear a seatbelt when in the car...
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