stone breaker

Boy, if you want to practice the job as a stone breaker well, you have to know the language in which the laws of how to cut stone are explained.

When you go out into the world alone to work as a stone breaker you will talk to your job comrades in our language, if you want to be esteemed by them and not be treated badly by the masters and misters.

'We call them "stone breakers", because they can push their roots through anything.'

To accomplish this in the most efficient manner, a stone breaker which will reduce to about inch cubes is necessary.

The 64 photographs in the show depict eight building types; in addition to the water towers, gas tanks and blast furnaces there are cooling towers, mine heads, blast stoves, grain elevators and stone breakers.

There was a pile of stones ready for the stone breaker who would come and sit at his work with sacking across his shoulders against the cold.

Would the stone breaker be crushing the stones by the brook with his sacking on his shoulder?

The dressing plant on offer included a stone breaker and several jiggers, pulleys and belts, the contents of smiths' and carpenters' shops, telephone installations, drawing instruments, office and household furniture, and a pony and trap.

The dynamos were upgraded the following year, replacing the cast-iron armatures with laminated iron ones, and by 1888 the electric plant was capable of powering the 30 stamps as well as an air compressor and a stone breaker.

He was widely promoted in Ukraine during the Soviet period particularly for his poem Kamenyari (stone breakers) which contains revolutionary political ideas, hence earning him the name Kamenyar.