C- Without seeing the image, if the "point" (working end) of the chisel is splayed, it is more likely a caulking iron - if he's driving oakum into the joint. M -----Original Message----- From: 0000018b3978345b-dmarc-request <[log in to unmask]> To: BULLAMANKA-PINHEADS <[log in to unmask]> Sent: Wed, Jul 9, 2014 11:33 am Subject: [BP] cold chisel at 100th and Broadway I got a beefy workman in a 1911 photograph sitting astride a 6' wide sewer line which is being worked on or rerouted. He looks just like Slim Pickens on the bomb at the end of Strangelove. I would describe what he is holding as a cold chisel and mallet, without really knowing what a cold chisel is. He is seating right at a joint in the pipe. Perhaps he was pushing lead (or oakum?) into the joint? If so, would the tool he used really be a "cold chisel"? Christopher -- **Please remember to trim posts, as requested in the Terms of Service** To terminate puerile preservation prattling among pals and theuncoffee-ed, or to change your settings, go to:http://listserv.icors.org/archives/bullamanka-pinheads.html -- **Please remember to trim posts, as requested in the Terms of Service** To terminate puerile preservation prattling among pals and the uncoffee-ed, or to change your settings, go to: <http://listserv.icors.org/archives/bullamanka-pinheads.html>