Tamping Pick "V" casual sweatshirt -sourced steel at our historic

-sourced steel at our historic West Virginia shop

truck bed and hands safe

2 x 1oz bottles

Typical uses: Recommended as a tooling compound for bonding striking tools such as hammers

Tamping Pick "V" casual sweatshirt -sourced steel at our historicNew, 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