Tamping Pick "V" casual sweatshirt truck bed and hands safe

truck bed and hands safe

Built for precision and durability

The mid-weight fabric provides warmth without bulk

Significantly easier to use than a standard spike puller

-sourced steel at our historic West Virginia shop

Tamping Pick "V" casual sweatshirt truck bed and hands safeNew, Old Stock Discontinued Prior to the advent of tamping machines, railroad track workers used tamping picks and other specialized hand tools to manually compact ballast (the crushed stone that the ties are laid on). These tools remain useful today. At one end of a tamping pick is a 2 1 2 x 3 4 blunt face designed to compact, break, and shift ballast. In particular, it is used to force additional ballast beneath a tie that has sunk. Of course, its