Archaeology Equipment

[BAJR]

pps to prove it, I will photo myself the morrow with my one

[BAJR]

pppps

thanks to all that do buy from Maggie. she says a big thanks!

[Unitof1]

I would definatly pay ?45, first two I bought cost me 25-30 back in the ninties, the second if memory serves me right about seventy, currently its held together with a thick weld and has been for the last year. They are the only tool for an evaluation. I clean back with it as I go especially any splash fom the machine which you can do without to much strain on your back. In trench work they are very good at pulling back a flat surface and often they are admired for cleaning out foundations by the trench diggers which I insist on doing. In watching briefs I use them to sort through spoil and pick up finds-saving me back and to cap it all you can sit back on them. I consider any archaeologist who hasnt got one as a t*** and have only met one or two people who had one who were t**** as well.

[CARTOON REALITY]

Any chance you could sell one of these Mr. BAJR? When not being used as an excvating tool it could allow impecunious diggers to raise a few shekels for their starving bairns by busking to bemused developers . . . I'm sure Amazing Grace would sound just ravishing on a shovel.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Xrkrmi1t1...ure=relmfu

[kevin wooldridge]

I would definatly pay ?45,.

Further to Uo1's recommendation there is the additional use of leaning on them whilst watching machine stripping. For lack of a better word in Norwegian, we call this 'loitering'......

[Dinosaur]

I would definatly pay ?45, first two I bought cost me 25-30 back in the ninties, the second if memory serves me right about seventy, currently its held together with a thick weld and has been for the last year. They are the only tool for an evaluation. I clean back with it as I go especially any splash fom the machine which you can do without to much strain on your back. In trench work they are very good at pulling back a flat surface and often they are admired for cleaning out foundations by the trench diggers which I insist on doing. In watching briefs I use them to sort through spoil and pick up finds-saving me back and to cap it all you can sit back on them. I consider any archaeologist who hasnt got one as a twat and have only met one or two people who had one who were twats as well.

So nothing that can't be achieved more cheaply with a trowel, hoe and long-handled shovel then? (normal shovels may be handier for short-arses to lean on however). You'll be telling us you clean all your sections and do those fiddly bits on skellies with one too?

[Unitof1]

As you can see from my profile picture I use two types of krazters for want of a better term, both based on a powerful pulling action with very little sideways strain on the wrist. If I use a spade its an old army landrover spade, I likes the curves for getting into curved corners and that I go for little and often rather than look how big and long my spade is. If theirs a lot of spoil I try and get a machine in.

What has happened to me in the distant past is that I have been on open area excavations where the moron stripping the site back has stood there with a trowel and then made everybody clean back. I was in such a fowl temper that I did half the site in short order only to have the twat say that the surface was different to those hoeing and trowling and to which I agreed but pointed out that I had found all the features in the area; and so bloody what and told him that he was a twat and that it was probably genetic. He still insisted that they trowel back the area which I had cleaned finding nothing new but then attempted to claim that the ditch junctions were now much clearer. This was about 15 years ago, the site's still not published and accross the site I pulled out about ten compleat romano brit pots which was bizzar as they were amost all in isolated contexts and nobody else found any. Such is the way of the kratzer.

[P Prentice]

teach us some more yogi

[Kel]

teach us some more yogi

He needs a pic-a-nic basket, Boo-Boo.

[kevin wooldridge]

Uo1 forgot to mention the joy of balancing quite large stones on the corner of the krafser blade and with a circular motion of the wrist and lower arm, lobbing them quite long distances. You wouldn't be doing that with a trowel or a dutch hoe and it doesn't require the back or knee bend required with the long handled shovel.....