Good luck! ;D
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Cuts slabs of granite
Heavy! ;D
Hydraulic railway spike driver....
Not a spike driver. That is an air compressor run by a 50 HP electric motor.
Not for cutting granite slabs, but take note if the marble in the yard.
Quote from: Dave Shepard on April 20, 2016, 08:01:40 PM
Not a spike driver. That is an air compressor run by a 50 HP electric motor.
Not for cutting granite slabs, but take note if the marble in the yard.
polishing marble slabs
A drill??
An edge shaper for the slabs? (like a router)
Not sure what it is but it looks like it is about the right size for Loggah to add to his collection of ''light'' antiques.
What the heck, I'll guess, is it used to make headstones ???
Rail road wheels on it, track grinder
I noticed that too but now it's set up stationary? At one time or another it had to have something to do with rail roads.
It is used in the marble industry. It moves on railroad tracks, but has nothing to do with railroads.
reciprocating saw.
Part of it reciprocates, but it's not a saw.
Quote from: Dave Shepard on April 21, 2016, 05:51:25 PM
Part of it reciprocates, but it's not a saw.
So either a reciprocating drill (hammer drill) or a power chisel to finish the edges on the marble (rough cut look)?
It's sort of a chisel. Not used to dress stone.
Stone splitter for when they saw out the big blocks and need to break them down into manageable slabs.
This was used earlier in the quarrying process than that.
For driving feathers and wedges for splitting large blocks off of the face.
It's a channeler. It would cut a two inch wide groove down several feet. These grooves would be cut at 90 degree angles, forming blocks. The first block would get pried out somehow, then holes could be bored under the blocks so wedges could be driven under to break the block loose.