Kirk - what is it?
This tool has been improved for a long time and applied in various fields of human activity: mining and coal mining, development of ore deposits, construction, agriculture, war. In many museums of the world, weapons collections are decorated with elegant and formidable coins, bugbills and other fighting picks.
If to speak seriously, despite modern types of various equipment, the pickax is still widely used today. Everyone knows the combined construction kirochki, with the help of which there is a bunch of bricks when laying, climbers always carry a light and solid pickaxe, carrying out geological reconnaissance work will not do without this tool of different sizes: from small and light, to real "combat" monsters, capable of splitting the breed in the right place.
To determine how to make an iron pick, you need to imagine and understand the difference between it and the pile. The classical form has a sharp hammer-like nozzle, put on a solid and long( up to one and a half meters) handle of hard and viscous wood.
Thus the nozzle can have only a long pointed end with one shock part, the opposite side is executed in the form of a shoe. This option is called a pickaxe, it is often used in combination with a heavy sledgehammer, which is struck on the butt.
The second and more usual option is( mistakenly called a pick) a kylo that has two sharpened shock parts at opposite ends of the hammer-shaped nozzle. One end is made with a flat and wide blade similar to the ax. The second, tetrahedral, sharpened and bent: it is convenient for them to tear, break and root.
From the description of both options it is clear that polishing nails with such pieces will not work. This tool is designed for rough physical work. The long lever of the wooden handle and the rather large weight of the nozzle, combined with the sharpened endings of the working percussion parts, make it possible to strike a huge destructive force. In this case, the power is used in one human muscular force.
How to make a picket made of wood and iron?
The most primitive version of the iron pick-up can be manufactured independently of a sturdy and fairly thick stick. In it, at a distance of five centimeters from the thicker end, a hole is drilled in diameter slightly less than the thickness of the reinforcing bar .One end of a segment of such a rod is sharpened on four faces, and the second is riveted.
When heated, the metal rod is driven into the prepared hole. This is done carefully so as not to split the wood, you can pre-select and put the crimp rings on top and bottom of the hole. Should be a L-shaped pickaxe. The intersection of the axes of the handle and the rod is cross-shaped with a damp skin or tarred rope.
Option wooden picks can be considered a hoe, a primitive tool of agriculture. They can be seen in the photo taken in countries with patriarchal agriculture. Thinking about how to make a wooden pickaxe, you can probably use tools from such photos as samples.
Similar to the above described result can be obtained by cutting a part of an even trunk with a branch growing from it. The tree should be hard rocks with a thickness of at least two thirds of the thickness of the trunk. Sections must be made five centimeters below the branch and a meter and a half higher.
Then the resulting blank is sanded, and the branch is cut at an acute angle at a distance of up to thirty centimeters from the growth site. To increase strength, place the branch and the left protruding part can be wrapped in tarred rope or leather band, under them it is good to lay strips of metal.
The dimensions of the picks are maintained for reasons of strength of the future tool. If you leave too much of the branch, it's easy to break.
How to make a stone pickaxe - a non-standard tool for our time
Whatever the strength of the wooden picks, it can not withstand a long intensive load. It was understood by that ancient prashchur: probably spat, scratched the back of his head and began to seek a solution to the problem. Also has found. There are many stones on our planet. Among their abundance it is not difficult to pick up a long sharp and durable fragment.
Then you need to get a solid stick and tear off a small piece of skin from a wild boar running through the forest. Now it remains only to fit the splinter to the end of the stick, wrapping the joint place crosswise with raw skin soaked in salt solution. Having dried up, it will create an extremely strong connection. All you can go hunting.
Now, knowing in general terms how to make stone picker , you need to correct details and materials. Since for the wild boar now seven skins will be brought down by the nature protection agencies, it's better to replace his skin with a strong resin rope. In the rest, the principle remains the same.
In conclusion about the most banal. Kirk was not considered in vain and is considered not only a powerful tool, but an extremely dangerous weapon. Therefore, even accidental strikes by her can lead to a premature meeting with the same clever ancestor who invented the first pickax.