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My Pick Aint Quite The Same Anymore


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PostPosted: Tue 21/Oct/08 9:24pm    Post subject: Reply with quote Report Abuse

inzane wrote:

The concrete I hit was angled away from me? Picks already have a curve in that direction, I am not at all surprised that it bent that way Eh?


so how hard did you hit it - maybe you're to blame for the blip on the mcquuens valley seismograph!

http://www.geonet.org.nz/earthquake/drums/mqz-drum.html
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PostPosted: Tue 21/Oct/08 9:26pm    Post subject: Reply with quote Report Abuse

danose wrote:
inzane wrote:

The concrete I hit was angled away from me? Picks already have a curve in that direction, I am not at all surprised that it bent that way Eh?


so how hard did you hit it - maybe you're to blame for the blip on the mcquuens valley seismograph!

http://www.geonet.org.nz/earthquake/drums/mqz-drum.html


It'd be fun to find a seismograph and go give it a good whack with a pick. Hopefully make some geologist fill his pants in anticipation of the 12.5 earthquake thats apparently coming his way. I'm sure it couldn't possibly be that easy, though Sad
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PostPosted: Tue 21/Oct/08 9:27pm    Post subject: Reply with quote Report Abuse

When I saw it I though he must have been levering something with it, but to do that with a single impact blow, get that guy in the ring with David Tua I say...
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inzane
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PostPosted: Tue 21/Oct/08 9:32pm    Post subject: Reply with quote Report Abuse

hickie wrote:
When I saw it I though he must have been levering something with it, but to do that with a single impact blow, get that guy in the ring with David Tua I say...


nah, I am a weedy xc type... Blush

but I can swing a pick good!! Wink
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PostPosted: Tue 21/Oct/08 9:39pm    Post subject: Reply with quote Report Abuse

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PostPosted: Tue 21/Oct/08 10:01pm    Post subject: Reply with quote Report Abuse

inzane wrote:
hickie wrote:
Man, you guys are in to some crooked tihs down south Oooooooh

how did it bend down rather than up?


The concrete I hit was angled away from me? Picks already have a curve in that direction, I am not at all surprised that it bent that way Eh?


Jesus H Christ man, how hard were you hitting it! Crazy
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PostPosted: Wed 22/Oct/08 9:25am    Post subject: Reply with quote Report Abuse

Percy Pig wrote:

Jesus H Christ man, how hard were you hitting it! Crazy


With pretty much all I had Big Grin
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PostPosted: Wed 22/Oct/08 9:39am    Post subject: Reply with quote Report Abuse

You might be able to heat it and bend it back?
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PostPosted: Wed 22/Oct/08 10:01am    Post subject: Reply with quote Report Abuse

You best stay off the 'roids Tongue it
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PostPosted: Tue 25/Nov/08 1:20pm    Post subject: Reply with quote Report Abuse

ha ha , im sure i can find 2-3 picks like that up the gully , and they are the ones that didnt snap Big Grin

You girls must not have come accorss much rock before ,or managed to talk groms into hacking the hard stuff.
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PostPosted: Tue 25/Nov/08 1:22pm    Post subject: Reply with quote Report Abuse

oh Pick!! haha I thought you meant/said something else
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PostPosted: Tue 25/Nov/08 1:28pm    Post subject: Reply with quote Report Abuse

Hmmm must go buy another one myself... where in Chch has a good deal on Pick/Grubbers at the moment??
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PostPosted: Wed 26/Nov/08 1:58pm    Post subject: Reply with quote Report Abuse

Find an acetylene torch and straighten it up. Double Thumbs Up
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