The tribes quarried by means of crowbars and picks of wood and bone.
From the mass thrown out by the blast, or loosened so as readily to come away by the use of crowbars, the men select and sort all good blocks and send them in waggons to the slate huts to be split and dressed into slates.
When Fred gets stubborn, neither crowbars nor kind words are going to budge him.
At 1850 GMT, four robbers armed with crowbars boarded a bulk carrier, gaining access via the forward mooring ropes.
Beware of leaving crowbars on a slope where they may slide or roll down.