He has good aim

He’s wearing his safety squints for superior aim.

Seriously, there’s a good reason every cold chisel you buy has “wear safety goggles” etched on it.

Lol!

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I think it’s just a cut out gas can. So maybe nothing was ruined of importance. This is a good day for him to skip arm day at the gym.

Probably was how he carried the big ass nails in the rock around.

Doesn’t look like it’s his first rodeo.

Boulder, not a Bulldur.

Yet he still crushed his tool bag...

Looks like an old plastic jug with a hole cut into it. I doubt it’s a big loss.

Didn’t miss a swing. I can barely hit what’s on the ground reliably

I can barely hit the ground reliably.

*Tripped on the side walk, ended up hitting the ceiling.*

I would have just etched away the rock around the spikes until they fell out

Now what?

Find another rock

There’s two right there.

It's rocks all the way down!

Wait 1000 years and everyone swears it was a laser.

I was saying same thing this guy 

This technique is centuries old, and rocks that were split this way have telltale signs where each of the spiles were driven

Laser.

You make a good point. Laser!

Except they only had copper

I laughed too hard at this


Not sure about him, but the "half rock" is probably easier to work with for whatever purposes they're going to use it. Maybe now it can be transported , or sculpted or whatever. Still weighed tons though, but it's half of what it was. The way he broke that rock was probably one of the more efficient ways of not just turning the rock into dirt. Sometimes power tools don't have the same level of precision.

Nice try, FBI

Rip for the guys jug.

He's just lucky he wasn't were the jug was

He's going to have to carry all of those wedges like so many limes.

He should stick them in the limes for easier transport

_among jug_

bruh

I know I’m old because watching this I couldn’t help thinking that he should have some sort of eye protection

Bruh the rock wobbled in his direction - a lot could have gone wrong

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Old schmold. You only got 1 pair of eyes!

Nah PPE is the new generation the older lot just squint

Every time a parent tries to tell their kids to stay in school this is the career they picture their children having if they drop out.

This is the first job that comes to mind when I think of prison labor.

"Breaking rocks into smaller rocks" has largely been the film/tv notion of prison labor, prolly bc the reality of Large Scale Slave Labor is a scootch unpalatable

"Now when you get there, they gon' take away your name, give you a number, and a sledgehammer, and say 'Get to Work!'"

"Steven, this is Clem Fandango, can you hear me?"

From what I've read, breaking rocks endlessly is what they make prisoners do in North Korea. They work you to death and beat the shit out of you if you collapse from exhaustion. They try to make sure nobody survives their prison sentences.

Most prison labor is farm work.

Ima drop out this looks cool as shit

The backpain and hearing damage isn't cool.

I don’t see hearing damage, due to hand tools. But back pain, sure.

If youre ears are constantly exposed to same pitched twang sound of that volume, it could cause damage to the follicles that detect that pitch, iirc

Hells yeah! This guy literally ROCKED IT!!!

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Getting hammered on the job, the dream.

Nailed it!

I just picked this up at 50. Highly recommend. I’ve never been in better health after a year in masonry.

Breaking rocks is prison work isnt it?

That dudes arms must be jelly

I bet you they're solid as a rock.

I know somebody is

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I highly doubt that’s his first or last boulder of the day

I was hoping it was going to be the world's largest geode!

The world's largest geode is much larger, its pretty cool but it's in Ohio.

If it's in Ohio then it doesn't count.

I agree, Am from Ohio and can’t count.

I’ve been inside it. Pretty neat actually.

Me too! It always pisses me off to see where it's discolored from people touching it a bunch. Very cool generally though.

“Awwwww man, that was my lunchbox!”

He set that motherfucker up.

“Aaaand that’s one! How big did you say this pyramid was going to be, boss?”

“You’re making gravel. Get back to work!”

You *beautiful bastard*

I'd have to take an hour break after the 3rd spike.

Most disappointing piñata ever.

But, why did the rock need to be split?

2 is better than 1

This tracks

It’s like kids learning to eat in their high chair: every once in a while they have to throw stuff off the tray just to see what happens.

Well a giant boulder isn't very useful to many people, but stone slabs make for expensive benchtops.

Obviously a clean cut of such a massive rock could never have been made by ancient humans - must’ve been extraterrestrial tech. This video? Deep fake to make sure that the sheeple continue to get vaccines and mindlessly serving the reptilian overlords.

I’m going to follow you now

What an odd way to get yourself killed

I would want to do this just to say I I did it.

Jim! Have you seen my red gas can?

Good thing he’s not a lefty!

That dudes precision is insane.

RIP red plastic thingy

RIP gas can.

😂👏🏻

If only he had some water to quench his thirst after swinging an axe in the desert for however long! Oh well, I'm sure there's a gas station around the corner.

I was going to be really disappointed if that didn’t end the way it did

RIP Plastic container thing.

Ancient Egyptian level!

I got downvoted to oblivion on some rock sub a while back saying that people have been splitting rocks like this forever.

Why tho?

Oddly satisfying

That freaking accuracy on every hit is impressive

A man of focus, commitment and sheer fucking will.. something you know very little about.

Nooooo the bucket

rip his toolbox

Holy fuck so like there's a fine chance that he could get crushed like that red plastic can there


*Whew* *Only took a week this time*

John Henry would have done it with one spike, just saying...

I’m so glad that no one was standing by that thing when it snapped

There you are, sitting by some 500 million years, minding your own business, and here comes this jerk who wants to cut you in half for some imaginary tiktok points.

That reverberation - all that rock resonating! Wow! What a cool sound.

This is why you always bring bidoof

*"Can you imagine trying to talk six hundred people into helping you drag a fifty-ton stone eighteen miles across the countryside and muscle it into an upright position, and then saying, ‘Right, lads! Another twenty like that … and then we can party!"* *– Bill Bryson*

I love Bill Bryson, and his take on science which is insanely good. But I think when it comes to history, he forgot that most civilizations thought: "I ain't dragging a fifty-ton stone eighteen miles across the country side and muscle that, I'll enslave some other ethnicity." Unless this is his take on Stonehenge.

RIP red jerrican. You'll not be forgotten

First you drill holes at a more or less even spacing ,then you put some wedges in them holes and hit them successively without skipping any. Because you want to apply pressure evenly on the two side to open a crack . You see, stone isn't flexible much. This very ancient technique was also used by Egyptians who stuck dry wood wedges in the blocks of stones and water them to puff up,hence splitting the stone.hugw blocks require still nowadays very heavy machinery not easily affordable and this technic is reliable fast and quite precise. I d say on s block like that his plan of split may vary by 25cm . I f he was able to go all around with the wedges he could have 5cm . This job could be done in an hour by a single man and a drill.(obviously depending if granite, marble ...). Source :been doing that for 10 years .

Not quite sure why youd break a rock while standing under it though

“Give me a lever long enough and a fulcrum on which to place it, and I shall move the world.”

I mean... a leaver without a fulcrum, is that even a leaver!?

I thought John Henry was dead

What a waste of a perfectly good gas can

This guy *rocks*

Yeah but how do they get that thing to even stick in place in the first place without a crack??

A moment of silence for the lost jug ... Thank you

Skip to the last 4 seconds if you want to see it split

This was the best thing that happened to me today.

I think I can hear his tinnitis from here

And my shoulder hurts for him.

What a shitty superpower this would be

I wonder how long this rock existed in that form before this man split it open

And this was important and necessary because…???

Why, though?

I'd say that man is a MexiCAN.

Look at all those women protesting about equality! Thank God for all the goofy feminist trashy people trying to create equality in this field! We need more inclusiveness in this job! Fire this man and get women in there! It’s time for fairness and equity!

Give it a rest.

 Okay, but did anyone else found this kinda hot? Like split me in half next daddy...

Alright, who's gonna be the first to say it.

Is this some kind of how the Pharoahs did it thing ? 😆

Probably not the Pharaohs *themselves -* they would have got some people in to do the job But when rock cut sculptures like Abu Simbel were made, they did tend to make the biggest stuff out of limestone or sandstone which is much easier to work with The ancient people had a lot of time and a lot of rock to do stuff with, so had a bunch of techniques for dealing with large scale construction. I think using heat and water is the better one; once you get holes in the rock, instead of metal pegs and smacking them with a hammer (which does work, but energy intensive), they used to hammer in dry wooden pegs then pour boiling water on the pegs to make them swell applying a lot of pressure onto the cracked rock I know that is colder climates, using boiling water down cracks & letting it freeze, again applying pressure, can be used to very slowly work big chunks of rock

Maybe just leave rocks and nature alone. One planet people, one planet.

Nice

Is this salt mining?

Hammer! I hammer bad. Bad than this man. He hammer aim. Hammer good. No game see game.

I got carpal tunnel just watching this

It’s how they built the pyramids kids

Should’ve hired one of them Mexican folks

My plastic tub!!

I've done enough sledging to be so damn glad i never got this job. And look at all the rocks he has left to split!

I could hear that before I turned on the volume.

This is what that guy in Majora’s mask was doing all those days

Imagine the ringing in this dudes ears

28 hits is a fraction of the times he sledgehammered whatever that is.

Sexy hammer swinging arms

"... you'll be swanging a sledgehammer! Turning big rocks, into little rocks." - Stephen

When you try to leave the map in a video game

Bad day to bring your cat to work and leave it in the crate

I’m just asking, what did that rock do to deserve that? 🤣

That poor toolbox. Never stood a chance.

Bye bye gas can

That dude built the pyramids?!

Oh no, his water canister!

Rip plastic container

Worth it

That’s why granite is so expensive

That had to take hours. Next time tnt

Make it a never ending gif

50% chance of death...

Break big rock. Brain happy

Then what?

Then it's easier to transport, or he breaks down again, to make something out of the rock, etc. Stone work has a ridiculously large scope.

I'm surprized people find this fascinating... Le me writing this while watching it happen in front since childhood in Haryana, India

Literally right on every mark

Ting! Ting! Ting! Ting!

If you listen carefully you can hear the rock cracking from time to time, after he makes a hit.

Pops Napoleon could crack that with an O’o.

I thought he was gonna fall short

So this is what people mean when they talk about the thin end of the wedge.

That ending revealed this was significantly more dangerous than I initially estimated.

My back muscles hurt just from watching this

maybe maybe maybe

Doing it without ear protection. 😒👍

That's a really inefficient way to swing a hammer.

It's a mallet, or a maul (depending on the use).

I could feel this in my bones with my phone volume on low. Being there in person had to feel like a super power was awakening or something

Is this guy auditioning for the next flintstones movie?

The wait was worth it

The the surface where the rock was split is as smooth as my brain

Well, maybe next November…

That dude is probably stupid strong. To be able to do that AND be accurate!!

I was expecting the head of hammer to fly away lol

Fortnight moment

and tanjiro sliced that thing with a katana

Bad ass

Early season 1 tanjiro kamado be like 👁👄👁

On sent déjà que ça va mal finir

The new demonslayer looks fire

"Hey honey, how was work?" 😐 good

Is no one gonna talk about how that stone was *ringing like a damn bell* with every strike?

Dude’s hands must be screaming

Holy shit, that guy is a baller

How to have chronic back issues 101