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You are right 🙏 Thanks for watching!

This is a great tip 👍 will look around for something like this. Thanks for your comment and watching my video.

Full disclosure, I don’t know the exact definition of pitch as it can be multiple things depending on context. But in this case i’m going for an angle, 90 degrees would be awesome, but as you know stones have a little min of their own. But basically whenever I use my hand set it’s either to chop off a bigger chunk, or put a nice crisp angle/edge on a stone. Thanks for watching and commenting.

De flesta är inköpta på stenverktyg.se men jag har köpt från rockandtools.com och trowandholden.com också. Har man tur kan man hitta på eBay ibland 👍

Wow first time i’ve heard that

Not as of yet, I’m still collecting 😀 when you start working you go through your pile quite fast. I actually don’t have a great way to move my stones/rocks/boulders. I’m looking into some old school way of lifting and moving stones but I have not made any attempt as of yet. Thanks for watching and interacting 🙏

I’ve got videos of the entire boulder getting split up into pieces 👍 Thanks for interacting and watching my videos 🙏

A pointed chisel and a hammer, the pointed chisel developed into what today is called a star drill which basically is the manual version of what I use with my power drill. You can see me in one of my videos using a star drill, it’s very labor intensive and they often used the younger members of the crew to hammer out holes.

I use carbide tipped tools, chisels, hand tracers, hand sets. I got a few steel tools also

Well it’s not the first time failing, it might be the first one camera 😀 Thanks for watching 🙏

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You are very right sir 👍 Not only will you get more force on each strike and being way more efficient, If you ever thinking about doing this sustainable, ergonomic is key. Working on your knees will not work in the long run. Thanks for watching and interacting 🙏

Thank you for watching and interacting, it means a lot 🙏 First I would like to start off with that Im no professional and I can only speculate and give pointers based on my very limited experience over time, but I’ve been messing around with a few mischievous boulders in my days, it’s not all fun and games 😀 I think you are right about excavating around the stone, I try to at least make sure 2/3 of the boulders is exposed. If not ,or something is rubbing up against the boulder, it will cause the crack to take a shortcut and split above ground and not travel straight through to the bottom. I’ve never worked with basalt, but from my understanding it is not formed like granite and will not behave like granite. And because of this its more prone to chip out or cut chunk’s rather than split into larger pieces. One thing I might help you with is you said that your wedge bottoms out. This is not optimal, you should add 1/2-1” to the length of your wedge when you drill, that’s good enough. If you done this and you still bottom out, you can put two wedges between the feathers to add som width/extra force. The bottoming out might be what causes it to chip and chunk on top because the force can’t go down. This is common with granite. Sorry for the essay, keep experimenting and most importantly keep splitting 🙏 Thank again for watching

Thanks for watching 🙏 Depending on where you live, are you located in US I would look at Trow & Holden, amazing tools. If you’re located in EU look for Stones & Rocks or Stenverktyg rockandtools.com/en/ trowandholden.com stenverktyg.se As far as I know all of them ship internationally.

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.

instagram.com/tv/CRHfHoqprOc/?igsh=cmZ3M2Zjbmp0YzJx Here is a video from a very talented mason who experimented with drilling with a copper tube.

You will find what you need at stenverktyg.se rockandtools.com/en/ trowandholden.com Thanks for viewing 🙏

you’re very welcome 🙏

Thank you 🙏

Probably, but not 100% sure in this case 👍

First off thanks for watching and subscribing 🙏 When I read your description my first thought is you need more holes. If it’s 150cm long I would probably drill 12-14 holes if the wedges are 10 cm long, and drill minimum 10cm deep, more is better probably 15cm deep. And never wash with water, the rock dust is so fine and heavy it will sink and you will lose depth and that is crucial when splitting. You should also blow out with air. If you don’t have access to a compressor you can do as I do and use a bicycle pump with an extension tube. The reason I bring up the loss of depth is you said a wedge popped up, most of the time when that happens it hits bottom. And by looking at that picture it’s really hard to tell what kind of stone it is. If possible try to drill more holes and re-drill the already drilled ones if you manage to get them loose.

Yes you can split quite big boulders with wedges 👍 check out my other videos for inspiration 🙏

@@workingstoned Ok thank you very much!

You will find it at Trow & Holden if you are US based or Rocks and Tools if you are EU based. It’s called a Hand Tracer

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Sorry I don’t know any sellers in Italy. You can try Amazon or I can recommend this one stenverktyg.se/produkt/ritsmejsel-40-mm/

Because they bring me joy and destruction 👍

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Great advice 👍 I’m taking notes. Thanks for watching and commenting.

Just to be 100% transparent, I’m not a professional and I’ve never claimed to be. BUT my very limited experience tells me it would probably depend on how wide and/or deep each step would need to be. Granite isn’t very easy to split thin like slate. But the biggest factor is the stone. You might be able to split it ~4” thick, maybe thinner. I have a video showing me splitting stones that would probably be great as steps/flagstones. That would give you a general idea or ballpark estimate of how big of a stone you would need to start out with. Sorry for the essay thanks for watching 🙏

That would have been a faster way, not sure if the results would have been better since the stone had faults.

Thank you very much 🙏 If you are US based I would recommend trowandholden.com, if you are in Europe I would recommend stenverktyg.se or rockandtools.com

Thank you very much, friend. I live in Brazil. I became a fan of your channel. congratulations one more time. I will try to import.

Wow awesome 👏 thank you for watching

Hi! If you can afford it, I would look at chisels with a carbide tip/blade, or high quality steel. If you’re in the US, Trow & Holden makes amazing tools, if you’re in EU i would recommend looking at stenverktyg.se or rockandtools.com

Thank you, I’ve got a lot of granite that needs splitting prior to building my house and just wanted something to make my splits cleaner.

Tracing a line can help a lot with nicer/cleaner splits. A friendly reminder is that it’s always the stone that’s in charge of how it wants to split, you can only “negotiate” and hope for the best 😀 But I must say granite is a very friendly type of stone and is quite willing to collaborate and work with you. Ohh and remember to keep your feet out of the way 🙏

These are 18mm (~3/4”) and are my “go-to” wedges. 16mm will do great to on quite large boulders, not that big of a difference between 16 and 18mm 😀

Collecting for various projects, one being a pizza oven 😀

​@@workingstonedThat's awesome bro, the stone wedge splitting seems super fast and efficient compared to hand splitting. I've done a bunch of stone splitting and carving now, it seems super slow when i see your tools at work. Thinking about getting some 16mm wedges, advice is encouraged. Awesome channel btw

If you are looking for a fast, relatively easy way, to split, wedges is the way to go. The only reason I choose to split with hand tools is because of esthetics, sometimes l want to avoid drill marks. But you are right it’s a slow process.

I only have one book about masonry, but it pretty much only covers construction, and had a half page about splitting and nothing about shaping. I myself started watching youtube and tried figuring out stuff myself. That being said, there might be books out there, but I haven’t found one.

Best feeling in the world 👍 You sure can use feathers and wedges to split smaller stones, there are different size wedges. But smaller stones I usually split with a hand tracer/stone buster.

Thank you 🙏

Not sure what you mean

@@workingstoned you had a spool of something in the background. Reminded me of a reel of blasting cord. That’s all.

Ahh I see, it’s an extension cord, so no blasting over here, even though it would be cool 😀

For this one I use 10mm drill, I’ve tried 12mm and it works but takes some time drilling so I’ll recommend max 10mm in granite, for concrete you can probably go bigger.

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

Hi! that would be a Hand tracer, the hammer version of that tool, also used in the video usually go by stone buster.

Just a few minutes 😱 Sorry for disappointing you, thanks for watching

@@workingstonedI’ll get over it

Thank you for watching 🙏

Thank you 🙏

Yeah you do benefit from a larger hammer 👍

Thank you 🙏

I bet it is 👍

You're referring to......rocks?

Haha 😆