Current Events > if you had a pickaxe and a big boulder how much rock could you move in an hour

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Say there's a big bin 30 feet away. How much rock could you chip off that boulder and move to the bin. For reference if you made 20 trips at 100 pounds each that would be a ton. How much could you or an average gym bro get done?

Without some sort of incentive then that big boulder is staying as a big boulder and that pickaxe isn't getting lifted off the floor.

Say you had to do it or be deported to the Sahara

i doubt i can lift a pickaxe. iirc they weigh up to 5 pounds.
so impossible task for me.

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Rock & stone, to the bone!

R1masher posted...

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duncan do.

Depends on what the boulder was made from and how firmly compacted it is, if it's a relatively hard stone like granite it's going to be a fraction of an inch. If it's sandstone or something similar it will be significantly more.
Pickaxes weren't really the primary thing used to excavate, it was either explosives or fire and water.

What the heck is a pickaxe for then

It's for knocking down lossened stone and finishing work.

Kai_Laguna posted...

Depends on what the boulder was made from and how firmly compacted it is, if it's a relatively hard stone like granite it's going to be a fraction of an inch. If it's sandstone or something similar it will be significantly more.
Pickaxes weren't really the primary thing used to excavate, it was either explosives or fire and water.

My man here knows what's up. ((I bet you own an Estwing!))

Most of the rock that I've delt with is hard to very hard rock.
They are Billions of years old, so they've seen some shit.

That is completely different from other areas where is Calcium based, as opposed to a Slicate.

royic posted...

What the heck is a pickaxe for then

Soft rock mining.
As in looking for Fossils is good with a pickaxe, but difficult if you are looking for Garnet.

Aight so assume it's a soft rock such that you'd need to swing a few times to get a 100 lb chunk off

I have no frame of reference for such work, but I would attack the task with the same mindless enthusiasm I give to every other useless task in my life. So I'd give a pretty fair accounting of myself. Probably the best pickaxer on CE, I shouldn't wonder.

royic posted...

Aight so assume it's a soft rock such that you'd need to swing a few times to get a 100 lb chunk off

Well if you aren't wearing eye protective eye wear, you might get enough off to call sand, before you almost blind yourself, keep that in mind.

Anony1125 posted...

I have no frame of reference for such work, but I would attack the task with the same mindless enthusiasm I give to every other useless task in my life. So I'd give a pretty fair accounting of myself. Probably the best pickaxer on CE, I shouldn't wonder.

You from Vermont, you should be chisling out statues in Rutland Marble by now.

Oh this man's from Vermont? They do good stuff up there. I drove up to Sherburne Farms and ended up spending like $120 on cheese because I made the mistake of trying the free samples. Unfortunately I also googled what calf rennet is after seeing it on the ingredients list

royic posted...

Oh this man's from Vermont? They do good stuff up there. I drove up to Sherburne Farms and ended up spending like $120 on cheese because I made the mistake of trying the free samples. Unfortunately I also googled what calf rennet is after seeing it on the ingredients list

As far as I know we have two Vermonters.

Ya, Rutland is famous for Marble, and the Northeast Kingdom is famous for Granite.
And just over the border in New York, you have Granville which has world-class Slate.

Where did you drive up from?

So is like being some sort of rock person why you are called SiO4?

Kai_Laguna posted...

Pickaxes weren't really the primary thing used to excavate, it was either explosives or fire and water.

How do you do it with fire + water? because explosives are a fair bit newer than the concept of mining

kirbymuncher posted...

How do you do it with fire + water? because explosives are a fair bit newer than the concept of mining

Heat it up and cool it down until it broke.

As for the topic, no.

If I had to, not a lot.

The impact shock from the pick axe would be brutal on my wrists. Id probably focus on breaking it up first. Then getting a wheelbarrow to move it to the bin. So no rock would be moved in the first hour probably. Sorry boss

Is it an enchanted diamond pickaxe?

I don't know. A little bit at least. I just know I've been using a pickax for the past two days softening up some really hard dirt that's full of concrete, crush and run, and brick so I'm used to using one at the moment.

Hornezz posted...

Is it an enchanted diamond pickaxe?

No, it's made out of wood that you just punched off a tree

I've played enough DRG. Practically an expert miner.

uwnim posted...

So is like being some sort of rock person why you are called SiO4?

That would be correct!
Quartz is my favorite mineral.

Having a number in my name was sort of a tongue-in-cheek joke.
Quartz was already taken.

SiO4 posted...

As far as I know we have two Vermonters.

Ya, Rutland is famous for Marble, and the Northeast Kingdom is famous for Granite.
And just over the border in New York, you have Granville which has world-class Slate.

Where did you drive up from?

Massachusetts tho I'm from NH originally. A bunch of my family went to colleges in Burlington and said it's pretty so we went to check it out.

I think I'm gonna go with 1000 pounds. It takes a decent amount of work to swing a pickaxe regardless of outcome. I'm going to just model this as if there is a big fissure in the stone and it's brittle enough that you can knock some big chunks off if you hit it right.

So it'd probably take a decent five minutes to knock a big piece off. And a big chunk with a flat, sheared edge is probably easier to break apart once it's on the ground. 40 minutes of breaking chunks and 20 minutes of ferrying 100 pound chunks around. That's like 10 100lb deadlifts and some walking.

ProfessorKukui posted...

I've played enough DRG. Practically an expert miner.

You should have leveled MIN instead, your skills would have translated better