Hello. Sorry for my bad English. Wanted to write a comment because I've done a lot of work splitting round stones. I would advise you to use a heavy hammer with a long handle weighing 5-6 kg for this work. This hammer should be sharp on one end, and should be similar to the hammer you used, but much heavier. When you start striking the stone with such a hammer, as if you were chopping wood, 4 to 7 hits will be enough for you and the stone will split into pieces. And even before working with a round stone, it is worth paying attention to the fact that such stones can often be seen with veins or fibers like wood, and if you strike with a hammer along the length, the stone splits much easier.
I used to work as a stone fabricator so I know the amount of work that takes. There's obviously easier ways to split it, but you did a great job showing how even with basic hand tools it's possible to split an incredibly hard piece of stone. Gives you an appreciation for the people who had to do it this way back in the day.
Thanks for viewing and commenting. You are are absolutely right about everything, there is way more efficient ways to go about it, maybe even successful ways, even though I do believe it was a “faulty” stone. My videos are about my journey down the path of masonry, and like you said it gives you a greater appreciation to the men and women who did and still do this for a living.
@@workingstoned Observe and learn what you can from a "failed" piece, in time the fault lines in natural stone become more obvious and you will learn to work around it and/or incorporate that in your work. Not every piece of stone will work for what you want to do would be my biggest advice. Sometimes being able to see that before you start can save a lot of frustration and time.. but then again we all fucked up a few learning 😂 Just keep at it, takes time and patience
I’ve never attempted to cut a lump of granite and this video showed me why I probably never will but hats off to you for the patience and persistence 👍🏻
Pretty cool. Im setting up an aquarium and decided to use stones I found on my property. Now, I found an interesting hobby in cutting stone. Go figure.
This is the first video of yours that I have seen, and this happens. Still, I was really noticing your persistence and patience. It was sublime. So, I'm happy!
Great starting material 👍 One easy way to get into the craft is to get a sledgehammer and wack the stones, most stones have a sweet spot or if you see a weak spot. If you are willing to invest a little, you can get a set of tools, a hand tracer and a hammer will go a very long way 👍 I hope my videos are able to inspire you to try it out and explore the wonderful world of stones.
Working Stoned alright! hehe... Took forever, forgot about things... Anyway, I enjoyed the video all the same gave it a thumbs up and binged on your other vids. Cheers Mate
Great knowledge 👍 Through trial and error I’ve come to know that splitting rounder stones it’s more predictable drilling and using wedges. But it’s not impossible to split by hand, just easier with smaller stones. Thanks for commenting 🙏
@@workingstoned The knights invented this after the Crusades. Therefore, towers have round walls in shape. Projectiles and cannonballs then bounce off.
I'm at home right now trying the same thing on a rock half this size, and I'm struggling to keep swinging the hammer. This guy is Flippin herculean in his stamina and dexterity.
I started out years ago as an apprentice tin Smith, nowadays we're called "sheet metal mechanics", but the first few weeks of swinging a hammer every day was rough, couple mornings I woke up and couldn't even open my hand. But after years of doing it you build up the endurance and the muscles and you can go for days swinging. Just takes time, patience, practice. You won't build those muscles at the gym, either.
@@leeknivek You do build up endurance over time, finding a hammer/mallet that fits you is another great way to keep up. Great story and thanks for viewing and commenting.
That is a lot of work - and patience. I have turned out quite a few rocks in a garden area, and thought, "What could I do with all these stones?" So, I looked at some carbide tipped stone cutting tools, and they are pretty expensive!
Yes they are, but you have to look at it as an investment, if you are a regular joe like me who uses them sporadically, they will probably outlive me. But check eBay every now and then and you might find some nice tools. Thanks for watching and interacting 🙏
How do you utilize those two pieces once split. Are the flat sides to be faced outward when building a wall or are they faced inward so the round part is showing?
Usually, when I split using hand tracer I usually go for the flat side to show or be the face. When splitting with feathers and wedges is tend to hide the drill marks by having the face “inwards”.
Great video I have a small piece from a countertop 1.5 inch thick. It's small 40x20 cm I wan to break it in half so it it's two separate pieces and am not concerned about the cut being straight. For now I only have a small hammer, can I do it? Will it break in half only using the hammer? The hammer has a round side, and the other side is flat and mildly sharp like this emoji 🔨
Hi! this is a real tough question to answer. If you are looking for a “sharp” cut in half I would actually go with an angle grinder and a diamond disc, and after you can chisel a live edge to it.
If it’s granite I would trace a line down the middle of the stone a few times with a chisel, then flip the stone over and wack it where you traced the line with a hammer/mallet.
Hi! It’s not impossible, with some planning and a stone that is willing to play along it quite possible. The stone in this video would be a pain since it split very wonky. Thank for watching 🙏
@@workingstoned Okay that's interesting. I am asking because where I am from there are no granit quarries where you could source locally big blocks of something like granite and I see people mostly working with such material on youtube, which I can't get. But it's possible to source plenty of fieldstones about the size as in video or larger so was wondering how workable are round stones. Thanks for answer
If you start out with a big enough stone you should be able to cut it into a square type shape, you will end up with a bit of “junk pieces” but you can utilize those to for other purposes. Check out my newer videos, there you can see me cut a big boulder into slices that I later cut into squares.
No pressure, you need to hold it steady, It feels like hands and wrists absorb to much of the striking force if you grip it to tight. All stones are not created equal, but you should be able to split most of them. Sometimes it just seems like an impossible task. There is a reason for every comment I get, where ppl are telling me to drill holes and split it with wedges. Splitting with a tracer is time consuming and not always successful. But once it splits, buddy, that feeling is priceless 👍 Try to trace a line around to stone (if possible) and just work that SOB. Thanks for commenting and viewing!
@@workingstoned I can say that getting a nice line where you dont crumble up the surounding surface area is key, you want the narrowest trouff posible so you get more wedging force.
I haven’t tried copper tools, and I don’t have access to them. But I’ve seen a mason who drilled holes “by hand” with a copper pipe, that looked really interesting. I’ll research it and see if I can get my hand on some tools 👍
Not sure exactly what you’re talking about. You mean use wooden pegs as a wedge? I’ve heard of drilling and plugging the drill holes with dowels that you wet and wait for the wood to expand and split the stone.
That's a Chonky piece! I've been looking for a large piece of granite to use as an anvil stone for knapping, but no luck yet. Love these videos, by the way. There's something soothing about hearing stone being worked. 🤙
Haha yes, my lawn is full of them, the entire region of were I’m from is known for being “polluted” with rocks and boulders, to the degree it drove old farmers crazy clearing the fields. But we are left with a tradition to build dry stone walls and they got very good at it. Are you going to use the stone as the anvil or just the base for it? Thanks for your viewing my videos and your comment. Have a great day 👍
@@workingstoned Yeah, my Garden is full of Basalt cobbles and big pieces of slate. The Basalt cobbles were added by the previous tenants though. The land my house is on used to be an old Gypsum/Chalk quarry I think. And as an Anvil for breaking preforms off of Obsidian or Chert for knapping. Basalt works, but the one I'm using is pretty small. Granite would be much better.
Depending on where you live, I think the 3 places I recommend do ship internationally you might want to keep it domestic due to the weight of the tools. US trowandholden.com EU rockandtools.com/en/ Sweden www.stenverktyg.se Hopefully you’ll find everything you need 👍
That was the effort needed with modern hard and sharp steel chisels, and only to split the stone, not shape and finish it! So now try to do it with a wooden mallet and a soft copper chisel. I don't see a rush to do it the "old" way!!! And they try to tell us the Egyptians built the pyramids with copper chisels????
Well to be honest I used carbide tools, superior to steel tools, but you are right, makes you wonder how ancient buildings were made. But you are absolutely able to drill granite with copper tubes, and with holes you are able to split with wedges. Maybe that’s a possibility.
If you have a video of drilling granite with a copper tube, I would very much like to see it. Otherwise, please do a demonstration or refer me to any video you know of that’s out there already. Thank you much for the video. Take care. An old foundation driller.
First off, this is not the fastest most efficient way to split stone, If I would have used feather and wedges it would have taken approx 1 min per hole, my guess I would have drilled 3-4 holes so a total of around 10 minutes in total with prep work and all. In this case the stone split just when the camera died so around 15-18 minutes. I want to demonstrate that you are able to split quite big boulder with only the force of your hands and arms. But like I said if you want efficient work, drill and use wedges. Thanks for watching!
18 minutes to break one rock, not efficient unless you have a lot of time to burn, feather and wedges are much quicker, and if you have two people the large rock splitter you had mid video and a sledgehammer would probably split this in a few minutes at most. I trialed a few granite breaking techniques on some of the local rocks recently and found feather and wedges worked best, probably depends on the strength of your local granite though, ours is almost mixed with a bit of ignimbrite which is even nicer to split. I tried this technique on the local rhyolite for an hour and gave up with sore elbow and ringing ears.
It’s not a demonstration of efficiency, more a video of what’s possible to do with simple, yet expensive, tools. Sure I would have split this up in less than half the time with wedges, but it wasn’t the point. Thanks for watching and interacting 🙏
The rock is moving to much, ground is soft,and absorbing the energy from each strike,hammer some wedges under it to stabilize that should help split it quicker
My days are as long as anyone else’s, but I’m not hanging around youtube wasting it, I’m splitting rocks when I do have time to do so. So get off you behind and get to work. Plus I’m not sure basalt act like granite therefore this technique might not work. Good luck!
Have you thought about a heavy stroke pnuematic hammer? I work with field stone retaining walls and it makes the work a joy. Takes 2 mins to split a stone about that size. Much bigger than it's best to go with feather and wedge.
Well I know there is pneumatic hammers and other heavy equipment for breaking up stones/boulders and I sure do know it would be the easy route to use feather and wedges But! That’s not what I’m going for. I do this as a hobby, to learn the craft and find peace of mind, my form of relaxing. Plus I’m going for a certain look, drill holes/marks also take time to remove, if you want, some like the drill marks. But thanks for the heads up and If you got any other tip I’m all ears. Have a nice day!
I’ve carved a little bit, but masons who sculptures Is a different breed, I’ve got huge respect for the craft, it looks tough even with pneumatic tools. I got a short video preview of a heart I carved for a tombstone I made for a pet.
@@workingstoned I might try to make a chisel from some garage steel I have. I want to smash some flat faces on rocks and figure out how to make then sit together decent
Do It! I would love to be able to craft my own tools. Like I said, you don’t need fancy carbide chisels, steel tools work great, they just need maintenance more often.
Might be true. I wouldn’t do this with steel tools, but since I got carbide tip, I felt the urge to try their limit. It worked, yes, would I do this again, probably not. But you learn as you go.
the position of your body is critical, you never seem to be straight above the stone or directly inline with the cut, its very hard to get a true connection with your chisel if you're not in the right position and you chisel or splitting hammer is rarely at 90* to the stone, look how the splitting hammer is not hit squarely, its burs are all on 1 side, this is 1 reason you didnt get a clean cut, another is you didn't roll the stone over and cut from the other side, better luck next time :)
Great lesson, thank you 🙏 You are right about the tracing around the stone, but in this case I’m not completely sure it would have helped, because the stone split in a few pieces instead of just split in half, so it had some “imperfections”.
Красивый камень . Может Вас заинтересует видео как "понять" камень для колки. Автор сравнивает камни с цветом волос и характером женщин. Интересно. You may be interested in a video on how to "understand" a stone for chopping. The author compares the stones with the hair color and character of women. Interesting. ruclips.net/video/yJd5jodMhtw/видео.html Как читать камень часть 1. ruclips.net/video/Wfe4Nrgch2Q/видео.html Читать камень часть 2.
🕉 Satyameva Jayate: Truth and Honesty and Reality of splitting rocks as hard as these Granite types - They are hard work - When we were in Kenya (East Africa), our back garden had several large rock sticking out of the soil. There were part of larger and were deep down and the parts that stuck out off the ground had to be ‘knocked out’ - ones that were above ground had to split - My Dad used small ‘wide-size’ hardened chisels (six to twelve chisels at a time - depending on the length of the cut - as well as, My dad only had twelve of these small wide-size chisels) to knock then individually in small holes (made by sharper / narrower long ‘shorten and thinned just to drive by hitting straight down in the rock i.e. ‘drill-length way’)… In this thin hole the wide-size chisel was placed with two metal wedges (softly hammered the wider chisel between the metal wedges)… The six / twelve wider chisels would be aligned in a ‘line’ of the cut… When all the six / twelve chisels were well trapped between the metal wedges the noise / sound that was heard from the blows of the hammering changed - one after the next this would be achieved - Next in strict sequence starting from first chisel each of the sixth / twelfth would be tapped-hammered with two of three blows of hammer… This would be repeated in rotation front the front-end chisel to the last one.. Within about three or four cycles the first few in the ‘sequence’ would begin to loosen up between the wedges of the chisel… These would be hammered and the hole would begin to deepen deep… The hammer used would be changed to a sledgehammer (much heavier that the one that had bee used to hammer home the chisels during the first few rounds)… The hammering with heavier sledgehammer soon split the rocks along the cut line - It was an effort that cleared the rocks that stuck out in our garden… Typically, My Dad did this over a period of a few weeks. During the evening of the next day he would make the thin holes in the line and then during Lunch break on following day he would return home had hammer in the stubby small chisels with metal wedges… Later, when he had returned from work at the end of the day, he would do the sledgehammering… Sometimes, the rock needed to be worked for long periods - When my Dad got tired of hammering, he sometimes let me swing the heavy hammers (but that was only as a joke, as I was only eight of nine years old and i would only be struggling - However, it was fun to do one or two hammer strokes - It made me appreciate the amount of effort tat my Dad was making! We would all have a good laugh as well!)… eventually, when all the rock-heads had been hammered out or split, The garden looked lot more like a flat floor… The neighbouring houses had their own rocks in the gardens - Our garden was envied as there were no rocks sticking out from underneath… Anyway, I suggest, use the small holes to address the line of cut issue and then use small wide-sized chisels with metal wedges and then have the sledgehammer ready to knock deeper the small wide chisels as outlined… What the small chisels do is to create a fracture in the rock that travels deeper into the rock… during the period of heavy blows from the sledgehammer the small cracks between the small chisels begin to merge along the line of cut…This then speeds up the cracking deeper Ito the rock… The hardest rock material soon cracks in a very precise manner… Satyameva Jayate
You might be right, but there were some faults in the stone that made it more crackle than split clean so not completely sure it would have made that big of a difference.
How would I put that stone back together to split it again? 🤷🏻♂️ I got more videos of successful splits but I guess you stopped at this one.But thanks for watching I guess.
this is pretty much real time, the camera went out a couple of minutes before the split. You sure would benefit from tracing all the way around, but if you are going by efficiency you drill and use wedges. Still no guarantee you’ll get a clean split.
@@workingstoned Thanks. I'm trying to figure out some of the cut marks on ancient stone work. and Do some stone work in the middle of no where my self.
Sounds like a really fun project. I got a few videos trying out different styles of splitting without electricity and just using hand tools. It’s sometimes time consuming but well worth it, even if it upsets a lot of people 😀
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Hello. Sorry for my bad English. Wanted to write a comment because I've done a lot of work splitting round stones. I would advise you to use a heavy hammer with a long handle weighing 5-6 kg for this work. This hammer should be sharp on one end, and should be similar to the hammer you used, but much heavier. When you start striking the stone with such a hammer, as if you were chopping wood, 4 to 7 hits will be enough for you and the stone will split into pieces. And even before working with a round stone, it is worth paying attention to the fact that such stones can often be seen with veins or fibers like wood, and if you strike with a hammer along the length, the stone splits much easier.
Great advice 👍 I’m taking notes.
Thanks for watching and commenting.
I second. My mason father would always read the stone and decide on the best path to attack it.
I used to work as a stone fabricator so I know the amount of work that takes. There's obviously easier ways to split it, but you did a great job showing how even with basic hand tools it's possible to split an incredibly hard piece of stone. Gives you an appreciation for the people who had to do it this way back in the day.
Thanks for viewing and commenting. You are are absolutely right about everything, there is way more efficient ways to go about it, maybe even successful ways, even though I do believe it was a “faulty” stone.
My videos are about my journey down the path of masonry, and like you said it gives you a greater appreciation to the men and women who did and still do this for a living.
@@workingstoned Observe and learn what you can from a "failed" piece, in time the fault lines in natural stone become more obvious and you will learn to work around it and/or incorporate that in your work. Not every piece of stone will work for what you want to do would be my biggest advice. Sometimes being able to see that before you start can save a lot of frustration and time.. but then again we all fucked up a few learning 😂 Just keep at it, takes time and patience
Yes! I admire the workers. Of course they knew nothing more effective or simpler.
I’ve never attempted to cut a lump of granite and this video showed me why I probably never will but hats off to you for the patience and persistence 👍🏻
Keep in mind, it not a demonstration of efficacy, it’s a reminder to always check your battery level 👍
Haha yeh not cutting rocks anytime soon
I have looked for a video on how to get smoother retaining wall face. You’ve answered my question. Thanks!
Glad you liked it 🙏
Pretty cool. Im setting up an aquarium and decided to use stones I found on my property. Now, I found an interesting hobby in cutting stone. Go figure.
Im glad it inspired you, is a quite interesting hobby 😀
This is the first video of yours that I have seen, and this happens. Still, I was really noticing your persistence and patience. It was sublime. So, I'm happy!
Well it’s not the first time failing, it might be the first one camera 😀 Thanks for watching 🙏
I have a creek full of stones. Trying to learn how to cut so I can use in my landscape and garden.
Great starting material 👍
One easy way to get into the craft is to get a sledgehammer and wack the stones, most stones have a sweet spot or if you see a weak spot. If you are willing to invest a little, you can get a set of tools, a hand tracer and a hammer will go a very long way 👍
I hope my videos are able to inspire you to try it out and explore the wonderful world of stones.
Working Stoned alright! hehe... Took forever, forgot about things... Anyway, I enjoyed the video all the same gave it a thumbs up and binged on your other vids. Cheers Mate
Great spirit 🤙 Welcome to the channel and thanks for viewing.
When a round object receives force, the pressure is distributed over its surface. Perfect example.
Great knowledge 👍 Through trial and error I’ve come to know that splitting rounder stones it’s more predictable drilling and using wedges. But it’s not impossible to split by hand, just easier with smaller stones.
Thanks for commenting 🙏
@@workingstoned The knights invented this after the Crusades. Therefore, towers have round walls in shape. Projectiles and cannonballs then bounce off.
It's so impressive how the shockwaves travel to the camera
Haha yeah both impressive and annoying at the same time 😀
Good observation
I'm at home right now trying the same thing on a rock half this size, and I'm struggling to keep swinging the hammer. This guy is Flippin herculean in his stamina and dexterity.
Just keep hammering 👍 Thanks for watching
I started out years ago as an apprentice tin Smith, nowadays we're called "sheet metal mechanics", but the first few weeks of swinging a hammer every day was rough, couple mornings I woke up and couldn't even open my hand.
But after years of doing it you build up the endurance and the muscles and you can go for days swinging. Just takes time, patience, practice. You won't build those muscles at the gym, either.
@@leeknivek You do build up endurance over time, finding a hammer/mallet that fits you is another great way to keep up. Great story and thanks for viewing and commenting.
How much time did it take overall?
If you drink a little pickle juice, that helps with the after effects. Learned that from a friend, who learned it from his Mom. Take care.
That is a lot of work - and patience.
I have turned out quite a few rocks in a garden area, and thought, "What could I do with all these stones?" So, I looked at some carbide tipped stone cutting tools, and they are pretty expensive!
Yes they are, but you have to look at it as an investment, if you are a regular joe like me who uses them sporadically, they will probably outlive me. But check eBay every now and then and you might find some nice tools. Thanks for watching and interacting 🙏
1056 hammer blows or a few rounds with tracer chisel and 4 ish drilled holes for feather and wedges?
This is not about speed or efficiency. It’s a simple demo of what you are able to accomplish without electric tools.
How long did it take to split that resistant and hard boulder
The entire video plus a couple of minutes
@@workingstoned what do you mean with a couple of minutes
If I remember it correctly the battery went out 2-3 minutes before the split.
OMY! So after the camera stopped how long did this take? Kinda left me hanging 👍🏽
Just a few minutes 😱 Sorry for disappointing you, thanks for watching
@@workingstonedI’ll get over it
How do you utilize those two pieces once split. Are the flat sides to be faced outward when building a wall or are they faced inward so the round part is showing?
Usually, when I split using hand tracer I usually go for the flat side to show or be the face. When splitting with feathers and wedges is tend to hide the drill marks by having the face “inwards”.
Great video
I have a small piece from a countertop 1.5 inch thick.
It's small 40x20 cm
I wan to break it in half so it it's two separate pieces and am not concerned about the cut being straight.
For now I only have a small hammer, can I do it?
Will it break in half only using the hammer?
The hammer has a round side, and the other side is flat and mildly sharp like this emoji 🔨
Hi!
this is a real tough question to answer. If you are looking for a “sharp” cut in half I would actually go with an angle grinder and a diamond disc, and after you can chisel a live edge to it.
@@workingstoned
Am in no way concerned about the final shape, I just want it to be smaller so I can use it a punch board for my leather craft projects
If it’s granite I would trace a line down the middle of the stone a few times with a chisel, then flip the stone over and wack it where you traced the line with a hammer/mallet.
is it possible to make such round pieces into square like bricks ?
Hi! It’s not impossible, with some planning and a stone that is willing to play along it quite possible. The stone in this video would be a pain since it split very wonky.
Thank for watching 🙏
@@workingstoned Okay that's interesting. I am asking because where I am from there are no granit quarries where you could source locally big blocks of something like granite and I see people mostly working with such material on youtube, which I can't get. But it's possible to source plenty of fieldstones about the size as in video or larger so was wondering how workable are round stones. Thanks for answer
If you start out with a big enough stone you should be able to cut it into a square type shape, you will end up with a bit of “junk pieces” but you can utilize those to for other purposes. Check out my newer videos, there you can see me cut a big boulder into slices that I later cut into squares.
do you use downward pressure whit your holding hand while striking or just line it up, I'm not having luck.
No pressure, you need to hold it steady, It feels like hands and wrists absorb to much of the striking force if you grip it to tight.
All stones are not created equal, but you should be able to split most of them. Sometimes it just seems like an impossible task. There is a reason for every comment I get, where ppl are telling me to drill holes and split it with wedges. Splitting with a tracer is time consuming and not always successful.
But once it splits, buddy, that feeling is priceless 👍
Try to trace a line around to stone (if possible) and just work that SOB.
Thanks for commenting and viewing!
@@workingstoned I can say that getting a nice line where you dont crumble up the surounding surface area is key, you want the narrowest trouff posible so you get more wedging force.
You are absolutely right 👍
can you do the samething with only bronze or copper tools? i enjoyed the video, thanx man
I haven’t tried copper tools, and I don’t have access to them. But I’ve seen a mason who drilled holes “by hand” with a copper pipe, that looked really interesting. I’ll research it and see if I can get my hand on some tools 👍
So you are making this man suffer with soft copper tools, lol just kidding
Interesting, what about sycomore wooden pegs egyptian style?
Not sure exactly what you’re talking about. You mean use wooden pegs as a wedge? I’ve heard of drilling and plugging the drill holes with dowels that you wet and wait for the wood to expand and split the stone.
Thanks for posting this. I’ve been wondering how that technique would work with a large granite rock.
I was hesitant, but didn’t want the experiment to go to waste. I’m glad you found it useful anyway 🙏
That's a Chonky piece!
I've been looking for a large piece of granite to use as an anvil stone for knapping, but no luck yet.
Love these videos, by the way. There's something soothing about hearing stone being worked. 🤙
Haha yes, my lawn is full of them, the entire region of were I’m from is known for being “polluted” with rocks and boulders, to the degree it drove old farmers crazy clearing the fields. But we are left with a tradition to build dry stone walls and they got very good at it.
Are you going to use the stone as the anvil or just the base for it?
Thanks for your viewing my videos and your comment. Have a great day 👍
@@workingstoned Yeah, my Garden is full of Basalt cobbles and big pieces of slate. The Basalt cobbles were added by the previous tenants though. The land my house is on used to be an old Gypsum/Chalk quarry I think.
And as an Anvil for breaking preforms off of Obsidian or Chert for knapping. Basalt works, but the one I'm using is pretty small. Granite would be much better.
How do you fight hands pain then?
Don’t fight it, embrace it 🤙
It took fifteen minutes to split, but that stone will be there for three-hundred years...
Facts!
where can i get tools like that
Depending on where you live, I think the 3 places I recommend do ship internationally you might want to keep it domestic due to the weight of the tools.
US trowandholden.com
EU rockandtools.com/en/
Sweden www.stenverktyg.se
Hopefully you’ll find everything you need 👍
Hi what's that tool called? The one that is not a hummer
Hi! that would be a Hand tracer, the hammer version of that tool, also used in the video usually go by stone buster.
That was the effort needed with modern hard and sharp steel chisels, and only to split the stone, not shape and finish it!
So now try to do it with a wooden mallet and a soft copper chisel. I don't see a rush to do it the "old" way!!!
And they try to tell us the Egyptians built the pyramids with copper chisels????
Well to be honest I used carbide tools, superior to steel tools, but you are right, makes you wonder how ancient buildings were made. But you are absolutely able to drill granite with copper tubes, and with holes you are able to split with wedges. Maybe that’s a possibility.
If you have a video of drilling granite with a copper tube, I would very much like to see it. Otherwise, please do a demonstration or refer me to any video you know of that’s out there already. Thank you much for the video. Take care. An old foundation driller.
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Here is a video from a very talented mason who experimented with drilling with a copper tube.
can i buying this tools broke for hard stone but cash on delivery
Not sure, maybe if you find a local supplier.
Seems like it took far longer than I would hope to invest. How long did it take to finally break it?
First off, this is not the fastest most efficient way to split stone, If I would have used feather and wedges it would have taken approx 1 min per hole, my guess I would have drilled 3-4 holes so a total of around 10 minutes in total with prep work and all. In this case the stone split just when the camera died so around 15-18 minutes. I want to demonstrate that you are able to split quite big boulder with only the force of your hands and arms. But like I said if you want efficient work, drill and use wedges. Thanks for watching!
18 minutes to break one rock, not efficient unless you have a lot of time to burn, feather and wedges are much quicker, and if you have two people the large rock splitter you had mid video and a sledgehammer would probably split this in a few minutes at most. I trialed a few granite breaking techniques on some of the local rocks recently and found feather and wedges worked best, probably depends on the strength of your local granite though, ours is almost mixed with a bit of ignimbrite which is even nicer to split. I tried this technique on the local rhyolite for an hour and gave up with sore elbow and ringing ears.
It’s not a demonstration of efficiency, more a video of what’s possible to do with simple, yet expensive, tools. Sure I would have split this up in less than half the time with wedges, but it wasn’t the point.
Thanks for watching and interacting 🙏
This is alien technology ;)
More ancient than alien 😀
The rock is moving to much, ground is soft,and absorbing the energy from each strike,hammer some wedges under it to stabilize that should help split it quicker
Yes sir, that would probably help out👍
Happy new Year :) this one is me going on expedition too haha
Sounds awesome 👏 Happy new year to you.
I have a lot full of submerged basalt boulders. Can't imagine using this technique to split them. Here is a man with a lot of time on his hands.
My days are as long as anyone else’s, but I’m not hanging around youtube wasting it, I’m splitting rocks when I do have time to do so. So get off you behind and get to work. Plus I’m not sure basalt act like granite therefore this technique might not work. Good luck!
I went out and bought a Bosch heavy duty hammer drill so while you are splitting rocks the old fashioned way I am done and relaxing.@@workingstoned
Good for you 👍
Feel like I'm watching an episode of the Flinstones@@workingstoned
I don’t think the pyramids were built in this manner. Nevertheless your work is excellent.
Haha yeah if that was the case they would still be building it now. Thanks for watching 🙏
You're correct. Wasn't granite, perhaps sandstone.
I got nine minutes in, then decided to skip to the sixteen minute mark hahaha
I'm glad I forward it to 1:36 to go😂
Now that’s cheating 😀
Hello, can you please send me the size of your chisel?
That’s a 2” (~51mm) blade
Have you thought about a heavy stroke pnuematic hammer? I work with field stone retaining walls and it makes the work a joy. Takes 2 mins to split a stone about that size. Much bigger than it's best to go with feather and wedge.
Well I know there is pneumatic hammers and other heavy equipment for breaking up stones/boulders and I sure do know it would be the easy route to use feather and wedges But! That’s not what I’m going for. I do this as a hobby, to learn the craft and find peace of mind, my form of relaxing. Plus I’m going for a certain look, drill holes/marks also take time to remove, if you want, some like the drill marks.
But thanks for the heads up and If you got any other tip I’m all ears.
Have a nice day!
@@workingstoned Got ya boss. If it's for chillin' then why have all the noise of a compressor when you you could play some tunes.
I would like to try it out, but it’s not an investment I’m willing to make, since I don’t do it for a living.
Cut it is one thing, id like to see you doing a sculpture with hand tools
I’ve carved a little bit, but masons who sculptures Is a different breed, I’ve got huge respect for the craft, it looks tough even with pneumatic tools. I got a short video preview of a heart I carved for a tombstone I made for a pet.
Detcord?
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Expensive toys but it looks fun
Don’t need to be expensive. Just grab a hammer and wack a stone and see what happens.
@@workingstoned I might try to make a chisel from some garage steel I have. I want to smash some flat faces on rocks and figure out how to make then sit together decent
Do It! I would love to be able to craft my own tools. Like I said, you don’t need fancy carbide chisels, steel tools work great, they just need maintenance more often.
This reminds me how theres no way the ancient egyptians and ancient ppl of india couldnt have possibly used hand tools
So what do you suggest?
The Egyptians inherited and worshiped those sites, not unlike our civilization has.
I always used 16 and 12 lb. stone hammers for large stones. 😊
Yeah you do benefit from a larger hammer 👍
думаю, для инструмента износ неоправданный, легче использовать клинья, а chisel для уже расколотых камней для придания им формы
Might be true. I wouldn’t do this with steel tools, but since I got carbide tip, I felt the urge to try their limit. It worked, yes, would I do this again, probably not. But you learn as you go.
Aaaaaaaaaaaahhhhhhh ! At least we got to see the end result.
I’m still fuming 😤
A few moments later...
Haha 😆
You know it’s wake & bake for me when iv jus sat thru a whole video about a guy playing with a rock😂🙄
You damn right buddy 👍
@@workingstoned 🤷🏼♂️ 😬
I spent a good 45 minutes watching a man teaching me how to use a string the right way, well spent 45 min i my opinion, high or not 🙏
@@workingstoned the little things in life huh
the position of your body is critical, you never seem to be straight above the stone or directly inline with the cut, its very hard to get a true connection with your chisel if you're not in the right position and you chisel or splitting hammer is rarely at 90* to the stone, look how the splitting hammer is not hit squarely, its burs are all on 1 side, this is 1 reason you didnt get a clean cut, another is you didn't roll the stone over and cut from the other side,
better luck next time :)
Great lesson, thank you 🙏
You are right about the tracing around the stone, but in this case I’m not completely sure it would have helped, because the stone split in a few pieces instead of just split in half, so it had some “imperfections”.
Y si metes tres punchotes?
That would have been a faster way, not sure if the results would have been better since the stone had faults.
Красивый камень . Может Вас заинтересует видео как "понять" камень для колки.
Автор сравнивает камни с цветом волос и характером женщин. Интересно. You may be interested in a video on how to "understand" a stone for chopping.
The author compares the stones with the hair color and character of women. Interesting.
ruclips.net/video/yJd5jodMhtw/видео.html Как читать камень часть 1.
ruclips.net/video/Wfe4Nrgch2Q/видео.html Читать камень часть 2.
Amazing videos, well spent time 🙏
You're so mad? Not as mad as me.
Yeah it’s a trigger, I should put up a warning. Sorry for the minutes you won’t ever get back 🙏
Prbly wouldn't take so long if you had rolled the stone over and continued the hammering
Probably, but not 100% sure in this case 👍
🕉 Satyameva Jayate: Truth and Honesty and Reality of splitting rocks as hard as these Granite types - They are hard work - When we were in Kenya (East Africa), our back garden had several large rock sticking out of the soil. There were part of larger and were deep down and the parts that stuck out off the ground had to be ‘knocked out’ - ones that were above ground had to split - My Dad used small ‘wide-size’ hardened chisels (six to twelve chisels at a time - depending on the length of the cut - as well as, My dad only had twelve of these small wide-size chisels) to knock then individually in small holes (made by sharper / narrower long ‘shorten and thinned just to drive by hitting straight down in the rock i.e. ‘drill-length way’)… In this thin hole the wide-size chisel was placed with two metal wedges (softly hammered the wider chisel between the metal wedges)… The six / twelve wider chisels would be aligned in a ‘line’ of the cut… When all the six / twelve chisels were well trapped between the metal wedges the noise / sound that was heard from the blows of the hammering changed - one after the next this would be achieved - Next in strict sequence starting from first chisel each of the sixth / twelfth would be tapped-hammered with two of three blows of hammer… This would be repeated in rotation front the front-end chisel to the last one.. Within about three or four cycles the first few in the ‘sequence’ would begin to loosen up between the wedges of the chisel… These would be hammered and the hole would begin to deepen deep… The hammer used would be changed to a sledgehammer (much heavier that the one that had bee used to hammer home the chisels during the first few rounds)… The hammering with heavier sledgehammer soon split the rocks along the cut line - It was an effort that cleared the rocks that stuck out in our garden… Typically, My Dad did this over a period of a few weeks. During the evening of the next day he would make the thin holes in the line and then during Lunch break on following day he would return home had hammer in the stubby small chisels with metal wedges… Later, when he had returned from work at the end of the day, he would do the sledgehammering… Sometimes, the rock needed to be worked for long periods - When my Dad got tired of hammering, he sometimes let me swing the heavy hammers (but that was only as a joke, as I was only eight of nine years old and i would only be struggling - However, it was fun to do one or two hammer strokes - It made me appreciate the amount of effort tat my Dad was making! We would all have a good laugh as well!)… eventually, when all the rock-heads had been hammered out or split, The garden looked lot more like a flat floor… The neighbouring houses had their own rocks in the gardens - Our garden was envied as there were no rocks sticking out from underneath… Anyway, I suggest, use the small holes to address the line of cut issue and then use small wide-sized chisels with metal wedges and then have the sledgehammer ready to knock deeper the small wide chisels as outlined… What the small chisels do is to create a fracture in the rock that travels deeper into the rock… during the period of heavy blows from the sledgehammer the small cracks between the small chisels begin to merge along the line of cut…This then speeds up the cracking deeper Ito the rock… The hardest rock material soon cracks in a very precise manner… Satyameva Jayate
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you should've turn the rock around and chiseled the other side.would've taken half the time and a cleaner cut
You might be right, but there were some faults in the stone that made it more crackle than split clean so not completely sure it would have made that big of a difference.
What the hell? “My camera died.” Get another rock dummy and charge your battery.
hahaha
This video is like porn you don’t pay for, it’s just a tease…
Yeah sorry for that.
Should have redone the video. That is what a perfectional does.
How would I put that stone back together to split it again? 🤷🏻♂️ I got more videos of successful splits but I guess you stopped at this one.But thanks for watching I guess.
@@workingstoned I was trying to see what to time was before it split. Wouldn't hitting it all the way around give a straighter break faster?
this is pretty much real time, the camera went out a couple of minutes before the split. You sure would benefit from tracing all the way around, but if you are going by efficiency you drill and use wedges. Still no guarantee you’ll get a clean split.
@@workingstoned Thanks.
I'm trying to figure out some of the cut marks on ancient stone work. and Do some stone work in the middle of no where my self.
Sounds like a really fun project. I got a few videos trying out different styles of splitting without electricity and just using hand tools. It’s sometimes time consuming but well worth it, even if it upsets a lot of people 😀
You're kidding me right?
I want my 18 minutes back!
where's the
#moneyshotnot
Sorry, no refund. I’ll put a trigger warning on the next failed split.
watching this is better than watching porn
I bet it is 👍
You're referring to......rocks?
I’m so glad I skipped 95% of this video.
Me to 👍
thanks for wasting everyone's time - camera went out.😢
you’re very welcome 🙏
Ancient Aliens had a bettet technique
Dude, modern Aliens got even better techniques
чего снимал..большой откольник и молот три удара и пополам.
yeah you cracked the code
Disappointed
Yeah, same here
@@workingstoned Are you sure?
@@jatwangismyname900 Sure am, from now on I’ve learned to always check the battery before I start 🤦🏻♂️
that sound was way too annoying
Wow first time i’ve heard that
(WTF) ?
WTF!
Wtf?
WTF!
Terrible ,why this video was uploaded....nobody knows...
Why you commented…. nobody knows….
You should be ashamed of yourself.
Don’t worry about it, I am.
@@workingstoned haha all good my man