tools for stone processing
In the information center of the "Limestone Heritage Center" are issued numerous tools and labeled in English and Maltese. They found up to the closure of the limestone quarry use.
tools Separation of the blocks in the quarry
Set of trenching Pickaxes (Sett Rqaqen Tat Trinka)
Various forms of Schrämmhacken. The stems
often have a considerable length. They
be worked out particularly deep Schrämmkanäle
Trenching Spade (Mgnazqa Tat Trinka)
Mason's Jib (Grabja) - crowbar to lever it off
of the split ingots in the quarry. Prior
various tools:
Flexible Saw (Gbbiesa, band saw) and
Stone Cutter's small hatchet (Mterqa Tal Ingulmar)
Darstellung des Abhebelns der Rohblöcke aus dem
Muttergestein im Freilichtmuseum
Werkzeuge zum Spalten
Chisels for separating stone slabs (Skripel Tal-Frieq)
Der Stein wird entlang der gewünschten Spaltzone
vorgeritzt (Sollbruchstelle) oder mit einer Keilnut versehen
und durch Eintreiben der Keile gespalten.
In den Stein werden Keiltaschen (Keilbuchsen) eingeschlagen.
Zur besseren Druckverteilung Metal plates are inserted
and the chisel is driven wedges evenly.
Iron Wedges (Spnajjar) wedges and Iron Plates (Capep) iron plates.
Flexible Saw (Gbbieqa), band saw with two handles.
For certain tasks are also used stone saws
Stonecutter's Saw. A kind of Foxtail saw,
but which has at both ends of a metal ring as a handle.
(In the background: the left stone slicer,
marking device to the right of the blocks).
Links: Mace (Mazza). Serves both as a heavy hammer for driving wedges
of the stone division, as well as for rough dressing of stone.
Middle: Stone Cutter's double hatchet (Mterqa Taz Zweg or Mterqa Valley Frieq). A kind of blunt
Doppelbeil. Right: surface treatment (reconstruction).
Stone Cutter's edged hatchet (Mterqa Tax XFAR). A Doppelbeil with serrated edge. This tool will blow by German Stonemasons as a double-double tooth or tooth surface stone hoe (southern Germany, Austria). The two-handed blow tool is suitable because of the serrated edge for soft rocks. It is used for the rapid execution planar surfaces and in Europe as early as the end of the 12th Century in use.
A variant of the blow molds with serrated edge is the so-called Peckhammer. This is the cutting edge is not perpendicular to the handle, but right, similar to an adze.
models with a smooth edge are referred to as dual-layer (stone hoe). This "geflächte (also called 'braids') blocks are found already in Roman Structures (from the 12th century).
Hard Stone Pickaxe (Baqqum Valley Qawwi) is
exhibited in the form of a combination
a pickaxe with a dechselartigen counterpart. As pointed
double or twin pick it
- in addition to the pointed iron and chisels - one of the oldest bat
tools for stone processing
Various blow tools. For example: left, a pointed face, which represents the
combination of picks and stone hoe a kind of universal tool for processing a stone
set of tools of the stonemasons:
stone planes, solder, tools for marking the stones,
bevel to transfer measurements and
smaller tools (sculptor molds).
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