Pretty cool for sure... nicely split boulder!

@DevineEscapes

3 жыл бұрын

Good times :)

If you clean the hole and get the shim feathers to seat on their shoulders, with the Chinese with rubber bands, and hit the plug wedges square, less breakage with tools. Plus the rubber band helps keep them together and less lose of tools. We drill down both sides when the stone is thicker, scoring 1/8” down with 4” grinder will straighten the crack. Keeping all the drilled holes in a single plane also improves the edge created. The shorter you drill the holes, not only will it save money by saving bits, but make it easier to chip off the half a hole if needed to make customers happy

@Rockall57

14 күн бұрын

It's ok if the stone is green but the granite we have is old air cured steel hard so we drill 100mm and find even stones of 1m deep will split reasonably straight.

Looking good!

@DevineEscapes

3 жыл бұрын

Thanks 😊

i really like your job outstanding style❤ from Pakistan🇵🇰

Good technique

@DevineEscapes

3 жыл бұрын

Thank you :)

Looks seven inches thick slab, nice for steps, rise and run. I use the Chinese sets with the rubber band. 9/16” in 1/2” holes and I go to the thicker pug wedge one if the first thin ones don’t get it done, cause they bottom out. I drill 2-1/4’ deep . For slab splits. I still use my Trow and Holden plug wedges and shim feathers in my quarry, same 1/2” holes 4” on center, but I drill 4.5 “ deep. I have bigger plug wedges and shim feathers, if that didn’t get my 16” wide slab , usually 7” to 30” thick and 20’to 30’ long. Sometimes I have to then get out my multiple dozens of 2” wide metal wood spilling wedges to finish breaking out the slab

Great result with these plugs! What size of holes did they require?

@DevineEscapes

Жыл бұрын

5/8". Possibly I used a half inch, but usually for splitting stones this size, the plugs I use require 5/8"

Nice 👍I seen a video of guys in india using railroad spikes and rebar Whatever works. No wrong way as long as it gets done.

@DevineEscapes

3 жыл бұрын

Indeed. One of these days I'll post a video of myself using masonry cut-nails.

Is the advantage that they don't drop in, so you don't have to dig through everything making sure you find every single plug and feather? Or are there other benefits?

@DevineEscapes

4 жыл бұрын

Yes--that is one of the benefits. And they are sturdier...the old style always had them flimsy ears, that would get bent up. The process is all around faster. Mind you, this is seconds it's saving you--20 seconds in rounding up all the plugs and feathers after splitting--but also, 20 seconds routing around in my tools to have the correct quantity of feathers to go with the plugs--instead, you just grab and go. Makes the process just a bit more pleasant and you're fine with the old plugs....but the new ones are a joy.

@richarddecker9515

8 ай бұрын

The rubber band do wear out, and get damaged. Some of our family members break the shim feathers cause they left stone dust in hole or the didn’t bottom out the shoulder, I thought I brought to kits from Amazon with extra rubber bands, but they never came

Hey nice vid so I’m working a piece of bedrock basalt or some other rock very simalar very hard stone but its split already but not broke free will this work to break it free?

@DevineEscapes

2 жыл бұрын

Hard stone will split using feather and plugs easier than soft stone. but you're trying to separate it where the stone is already broken? Too much that I don't know. Is it broken all the way through, or just beginning to break? Post this comment on my blog then, along with a photo or two. Either upload the photo to imgur and post the link to it, or just post the question and email me the photo. www.devineescapes.com/splitting-stone-using-feather-and-wedge/ Not sure if I can advise, just from a photo, but I can try.

@MRGOLD99.999

2 жыл бұрын

Yeah has a big split one side not split on the other so yeah all the way they trying to break the side not broken prospect for gold and have gotten most of it out but need to split to get the rest out

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Hi there Where can I buy good feather splitter? In uk thanks

@DevineEscapes

3 жыл бұрын

Most stone masonry suppliers in my area (mid atlantic usa) will have passably good feather and plugs. The ones I'm using in the video though, I bought them offline. Couldn't even tell you the company name...I just searched through common online retailers, amazon/ ebay

@alanalan9990

3 жыл бұрын

@@DevineEscapes thanks for replying.i will need to find in UK .they selling in China but not sure about quality

@DevineEscapes

3 жыл бұрын

The feathers and wedges that I used in this video were purchased from amazon (Link now added above, in the description). I think they were made in China....but the quality is good.

@alanalan9990

3 жыл бұрын

Thanks

Eye protection? Too late after an injury

@DevineEscapes

2 ай бұрын

Thank you, yes I am accepting donations to help purchase better safety gear.

The title should be... How to split an eye out.

@DevineEscapes

3 жыл бұрын

That's it--I'm buying you an "official Red Ryder, carbine action, two-hundred shot range model air rifle" for Christmas!

@mikejustice1196

3 жыл бұрын

@@DevineEscapes laugh today weep tomorrow is what the one eyed pirate said.

@DevineEscapes

3 жыл бұрын

One Eyed Willy lost his eye due to piracy on the high seas--not stone masonry. Oh and in reality, he actually has 2 good working eyes--you just leave one eye patched, so that when you go below decks you can remove the patch--and now your one eye is already adjust to the dark.