Originally Posted by John_Kunkel
Originally Posted by Hugh Jorgan
Drop it off at a local equipment rigger. They will put it to good use. twocents


Yep, heat the sharp end and put a slight bend to it and it can be used to "walk" heavy machines.


With the angle change it becomes a
“Miner’s Slate Bar”

https://warwoodtool.com/products/slate-bar

I am named after my greatgrandfather whose pelvis was broken by falling slate. He did recover.

46 years ago I worked at a mine where the Mine Superintendent had “accidently” died in a slate fall a few months before.
After working there a few months other miners told me while eating lunch one day that what really happened was the Superintendent came to work one morning and said he had been diagnosed with advanced prostate cancer. Later that day his employees found him dead under a large piece of slate rock with a slate bar nearby.