When I was in the field, we used to have a tool that was commonly referred to as a certain part of a bull's anatomy. We used it when setting monuments in the street to punch a hole through the asphalt. What is the "real" name of this tool? Anchor spike?
Thanks for your help. 🙂
Hi Wendell,
The polite name (seldom used) was a "gad".
The technical name I do not know.
Lo Ink calls them a "bull point".
Scott
In addition to the slang term to which you alluded, I've heard it called a frost pin, gad and moil point.
When I was on a job in Nome the one I was using disappeared in the snow so I had a welder guy cut my iron digging bar into three pieces and crudely sharpen one with his cutting torch so I could continue too set out stakes. When my relief guy in Anchorage asked what he might need when he came up I said.....well...you might need to bring a digging bar up as I've kinda damaged the one here.... he was like..."how do you damage a digging bar?"
Drift pin.
I think I've heard most of the names, but how about design?
I have one I had made up for frozen ground - I'm curious what the rest of you
use for what kind of surface, and why?
Tools of the trade By gad Scott I concur! Gad it is
We used to use the old jack hammer pins.
RADU
round here they're known as a "peg bar"
In Scotland and probably the rest of the UK it's a 'piercing rod' or 'piercer'. There's a bigger version known as a quarry spike or quarry bar - still used if you want to break solid pieces of rock out of a quarry without the cracks caused by blasting.
In the NE corner of NJ they were a "bull pin." I used to use the jack hammer tip Radu mentions, until a piece of the hard steel flew off and I was in the ER with a piece in my leg.
They are not used just for frost. I had a job last summer where a ridge of hard shale was hammered into small pieces and spread across the site and rolled as fill. Sometimes I could get away with setting a nail in the hard dirt, but often had to set a hub. Almost every stake required the bull pin.
KS
I used to use old jackhammer bits until one day a piece chipped off and went into the rodman's leg. The temper is wrong on the ends of those things to be hitting them with a sledgehammer.
I'm glad you asked the question Wendell because I used the same term.
"Bull pin" or "bull point" here as well.
I've heard them called a "Bull Pin" and "Bull Punch"
Carl
So then one of these tools in electronic form would be "E-Gad"?
While watching an episode of Stuntbusters with my youngest, they referred to it as a bull *****.
