Drilling and breaking a yorkstone sandstone block

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Drilling a yorkstone block with a rock drill and breaking it in half with 'plugs and feathers' and a 'maul'

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Education

Tags:

• yorkstone
• sandstone
• stone block
• drilling
• rock drill

[Megamilo5]

In minecraft i mine through these things like if it were made of jello...

[NickLarsen20]

haha, we juuust stopped doing this last year, we finally got a hydrolic dill for the end of our excavator....you think drilling like that is hard, check my vid out, that is childsplay..

[jmg1957]

lol...remeber those days..

[Routanne]

Why are you letting the hose rub on the edge like that? they get red hot, which makes them weak as it is. All though I feel sorry for you, I get to run hydraulic splitters, but I am also doing 26 inch holes, Limestone.

[MsKimo34]

that is my beginning when i was 16 ... damn i remember my muscles hurt me evrywhere,

[ceannscriteach81]

I used to hate having to do this job when i was an apprentice, it toughened me up tho.