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Morlock Joined: 31/07/2008 View Profile View Posts View Personal Album View Personal Files View all Photos Send Private Message	Miners Tools. Posted: 10/12/2010 19:09:33 Reply \| Quote Pics of picks would be nice. IP: 86.27.41.22 Edited: 10/12/2010 19:10:24 by Morlock
Ty Gwyn Joined: 30/10/2009 Location: Lampeter View Profile View Posts View Personal Album View Personal Files View all Photos Send Private Message	Miners Tools. Posted: 10/12/2010 19:11:47 Reply \| Quote Where is the wanted section? IP: 86.142.186.225
minerat Joined: 15/01/2008 Location: cheshire View Profile View Posts View Personal Album View Personal Files View all Photos Send Private Message	Miners Tools. Posted: 10/12/2010 19:31:27 Reply \| Quote will take some 2moro. -- be afraid.....very afraid !!!! IP: 86.133.78.111
martinnman Joined: 10/11/2011 View Profile View Posts View Personal Album View Personal Files View all Photos Send Private Message	Miners Tools. Posted: 10/11/2011 05:55:45 Reply \| Quote Well, it would be a pick Roadmans Colliery, soak the sleeper selection for digging and Hammer knocks ends in cramps. -- [url=http://www.ruhrpumpen.com/productos/Fire%20Service%20Skid]Fire Pumps">[link] IP: 180.211.107.82 Edited: 10/11/2011 05:58:09 by martinnman
staffordshirechina Joined: 15/11/2009 Location: North Staffordshire View Profile View Posts View Personal Album View Personal Files View all Photos Send Private Message	Miners Tools. Posted: 10/11/2011 20:44:51 Reply \| Quote We used to make our own one sided picks by simply chopping the other side short with an angle grinder. Twiggs in Matlock used to sell miners size pick but I'm not sure if they still do? IP: 92.8.34.101
John Lawson Joined: 09/12/2010 Location: Castle Douglas Dumfries & Galloway View Profile View Posts View Personal Album View Personal Files View all Photos Send Private Message	Miners Tools. Posted: 10/11/2011 20:49:29 Reply \| Quote Poll pick, Made one of these when I first started to be interested in mines-about 40 years ago! I recovered a broken pick head from a disused Derbyshire Mine then using a junior hacksaw cut off the offending broken side to make a hammer- head. Then fitted it to a new pick shaft. Did all that was asked of it! Should be a lot easier to do today because we now have angle-grinders! . IP: 86.149.172.123
Edd Joined: 02/07/2008 Location: Alderley Edge View Profile View Posts View Personal Album View Personal Files View all Photos Send Private Message	Miners Tools. Posted: 11/11/2011 11:14:26 Reply \| Quote I bought the handles from http://www.richardcarterltd.co.uk They are one of the last suppliers of mining tools apparently but stock everything you could want and very good price too. Catalogue here - http://www.richardcarterltd.co.uk/assets/RCLBrochure2010.pdf -- 'having a spiffing adventure underground!' IP: 109.158.196.18
Morlock Joined: 31/07/2008 View Profile View Posts View Personal Album View Personal Files View all Photos Send Private Message	Miners Tools. Posted: 11/11/2011 15:00:58 Reply \| Quote Thanks Edd, just e-mailed them to check what they have for an 'ACME' copy. Anyone know what company SBS is/was? IP: 86.27.30.148 Edited: 11/11/2011 15:03:36 by Morlock
1333 Joined: 09/11/2011 View Profile View Posts View Personal Album View Personal Files View all Photos Send Private Message	Miners Tools. Posted: 11/11/2011 18:01:42 Reply \| Quote Don't know but it prompted me to look at mine,yes I'm a hoarder!!!! and still have my hammer and shaft(Pick). Mine has the SBS but on the other side is an 0, i see yours is a number 1 Different sizes,?? IP: 195.93.21.36
PeteJ Joined: 12/05/2008 Location: Frosterley, Durham View Profile View Posts View Personal Album View Personal Files View all Photos Send Private Message	Miners Tools. Posted: 11/11/2011 20:10:54 Reply \| Quote This is an extract from the Hardypick Catalogue http://www.aditnow.co.uk/documents/Personal-Album-1334/Hardypick-catalogue.PDF IP: 82.5.181.65 Edited: 11/11/2011 20:54:53 by (moderator)
Morlock Joined: 31/07/2008 View Profile View Posts View Personal Album View Personal Files View all Photos Send Private Message	Miners Tools. Posted: 11/11/2011 21:25:45 Reply \| Quote PeteJ wrote: This is an extract from the Hardypick Catalogue http://www.aditnow.co.uk/documents/Personal-Album-1334/Hardypick-catalogue.PDF Thanks Pete, I've not been able to find my catalogue for years! On checking, I appear to have at least another No1 (with shortened handle) plus 4 No1 plain pick blades, also a larger blade which must be for a No2. Just hope that new shafts of somewhere near the right size are available. IP: 86.23.16.158
Ty Gwyn Joined: 30/10/2009 Location: Lampeter View Profile View Posts View Personal Album View Personal Files View all Photos Send Private Message	Miners Tools. Posted: 11/11/2011 22:46:06 Reply \| Quote edd wrote: I bought the handles from http://www.richardcarterltd.co.uk They are one of the last suppliers of mining tools apparently but stock everything you could want and very good price too. Catalogue here - http://www.richardcarterltd.co.uk/assets/RCLBrochure2010.pdf Sadly they do not stock shafts for Mandrels or Handles for Colliers Hatchets, But will manufacture,minimum order of 500 So have resorted to make my own. IP: 86.146.166.221
Roy Morton Joined: 09/10/2007 Location: Redruth Cornwall View Profile View Posts View Personal Album View Personal Files View all Photos Send Private Message	Miners Tools. Posted: 12/11/2011 03:42:53 Reply \| Quote Here's a couple of shots of one of their billheads. The paper on which this is printed is like the 'bible tissue' of years ago. It's a wonder they were able to write on it at all, it is just so thin! Just for the hell of it, I miked up a piece of 80gsm paper and that was 0.10mm The Hardy's billhead miked up at .0375mm....Not too hardy (click image to open full size image in new window) (click image to open full size image in new window) -- 'Bid me discourse, I will enchant thine ear' IP: 86.150.102.234
Morlock Joined: 31/07/2008 View Profile View Posts View Personal Album View Personal Files View all Photos Send Private Message	Miners Tools. Posted: 12/11/2011 14:44:07 Reply \| Quote Much joy, found an old smallish handle I had lying about for 30 odd years! Once cleaned up a bit a 6 or 9 stamp appeared, any ideas? IP: 86.31.253.134 Edited: 12/11/2011 14:45:22 by Morlock
Yorkshireman Joined: 23/06/2011 Location: Hanover, Germany View Profile View Posts View Personal Album View Personal Files View all Photos Send Private Message	Miners Tools. Posted: 12/11/2011 23:58:00 Reply \| Quote Morlock wrote: Anyone know what company SBS is/was? Haven't found SBS (yet), but did find this page with some quite excellent pictures of mining tools http://www.miningartifacts.org/toolsandhardware.html IP: 91.43.115.246
WINDERLICH Joined: 04/09/2018 View Profile View Posts View Personal Album View Personal Files View all Photos Send Private Message	Miners Tools. Posted: 04/09/2018 06:03:05 Reply \| Quote Hullo Manicminer. I have two "poll picks", which I inherited from my great-grandfather, who was originally from Wales, I believe. Doing some research on them, as I have no real idea of their original purpose or cost, I found out they are known as "poll" or "pole" picks. I think they would be good for opal mining, being long and narrow and sharp, for working lying side-on in a stope. I can send you pictures of them if you wish. These are not your ordinary old pick; they have quite pointed tips, and the hammer-head on one of them has clearly been repaired by a blacksmith or similar. The cheek of one appears to have been broken and repaired. I think the handles, which are longish, are probably made from hickory; one faces inwards, one faces out, opposite to an axe-handle. For more information contact me at: jonjes1008@bigpond.com or if you choose you could phone me on [Australia = 61?] 0411 349 290, which is my mobile phone number. Regards, John Basham. IP: 124.189.3.129
Roy Morton Joined: 09/10/2007 Location: Redruth Cornwall View Profile View Posts View Personal Album View Personal Files View all Photos Send Private Message	Miners Tools. Posted: 06/09/2018 03:02:52 Reply \| Quote In Cornwall the poll pick took the form of a pick spike at one end and a short hammer at the other. The one in this photo has an 8 inch long pick and a 4 long inch hammer, and is typical of the types used for centuries in this county, and no doubt in other counties. The word Pol in Cornish can refer to a pool or indeed a well. This sort of pick would be well suited to sinking a well with it's short dimensions. It's always been believed that the pol or poll pick, was a Cornish name that has been adopted throughout the mining world. Similarly, many other mining names and terms can also trace their roots back to Cornish origins. (click image to open full size image in new window) -- "You Chinese think of everything!" "But I''m not Chinese!" "Then you must have forgotten something!" IP: 81.151.59.64
John Lawson Joined: 09/12/2010 Location: Castle Douglas Dumfries & Galloway View Profile View Posts View Personal Album View Personal Files View all Photos Send Private Message	Miners Tools. Posted: 06/09/2018 07:55:42 Reply \| Quote Contrary to what Roy has posted, I always thought, that Poll picks were of a German origin, Most of the original miners in this country came from that country! IP: 93.109.254.154
Roy Morton Joined: 09/10/2007 Location: Redruth Cornwall View Profile View Posts View Personal Album View Personal Files View all Photos Send Private Message	Miners Tools. Posted: 09/09/2018 22:39:12 Reply \| Quote You may well be right John. The Germans had an influence on mining in Cornwall from very early days. The pick has always been associated with mining, and a few different patterns have appeared that are generally pertinent to the type of ground in a particular region. How the name Pol Pick or Poll Pick came about is open to question. I wonder if this name is common or similar in other languages? "Is there an etymologist in the house"? -- "You Chinese think of everything!" "But I''m not Chinese!" "Then you must have forgotten something!" IP: 81.151.57.185
robnorthwales Joined: 21/05/2008 Location: Denbighshire, North wales View Profile View Posts View Personal Album View Personal Files View all Photos Send Private Message	Miners Tools. Posted: 10/09/2018 09:00:44 Reply \| Quote Possibly a bit off-topic, but the term' poleaxed' may be relevant here. The pollaxe was a military weapon, but also a farming implement - if the axe part became stuck then it could be freed with blows to the short 'poll' at the back. Alternatively, the poll could be used as a livestock slaughtering instrument, the the reverse axe part adding weight to the strike. The blow was normally administered to the skull, roughly between the eyes but slightly higher. Very similar to a modern 'captive bolt' gun in use and effect. The implement in the picture certainly looks like it could be used in that way too. IP: 80.189.176.37

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