04-10-2004, 03:05 PM
Number two would seem more appropriate to break hard ground since it's straight and the pick part is quite narrow?<br>
Maybe number two was faster to make too?<br>
But it's significant of the times that even for an ordinary tool like a pickaxe, the smith took time to put some decoration on it.<br>
That catapult bolt looks real mean, BTW.. Given the thickness of the shaft indicated by the diameter of the socket and the narrow point, plus the strenght of a torsion catapult behind, it's easy too imagine how a bolt like that could go clean through a body..<br>
Another BTW: what caliber is that bolt head?<br>
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Maybe number two was faster to make too?<br>
But it's significant of the times that even for an ordinary tool like a pickaxe, the smith took time to put some decoration on it.<br>
That catapult bolt looks real mean, BTW.. Given the thickness of the shaft indicated by the diameter of the socket and the narrow point, plus the strenght of a torsion catapult behind, it's easy too imagine how a bolt like that could go clean through a body..<br>
Another BTW: what caliber is that bolt head?<br>
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