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'Pick bar' - a regional term?

Postby RogerS » 11 Aug 2022, 18:09

Google fails.

Up here in Northumberland, they refer to one of those long straight steel bars with a point on the end, a 'pick bar'. Anyone have a more 'normal' term as I want to buy one. Used for winkling large rocks and stones out of the ground.
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Re: 'Pick bar' - a regional term?

Postby Woodbloke » 11 Aug 2022, 18:15

RogerS wrote:Google fails.

Up here in Northumberland, they refer to one of those long straight steel bars with a point on the end, a 'pick bar'. Anyone have a more 'normal' term as I want to buy one. Used for winkling large rocks and stones out of the ground.

You must have a weird Google 'oop Narth' Roger 'cos in the sunny sarf, 'pick bar' comes up with images of a long, straight bit of steel with a pointy bit at the end - Rob
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Re: 'Pick bar' - a regional term?

Postby RogerS » 11 Aug 2022, 18:21

What term did you use ? I put in Pick Bar and get all sorts of weird and wonderful things
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Postby Windows » 11 Aug 2022, 18:26

I don’t know which tool you mean and Google is not showing me pointy bars for “pick bar” (and I’m currently darn sarf). Is it also called a “pointed crowbar”? Or pointy pry bar or wrecking bar or demolition bar?

Is it the same as a concrete breaker?
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Postby Mr P » 11 Aug 2022, 18:37

We called them a Ringer Bar when I worked for British Coal.
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Re: 'Pick bar' - a regional term?

Postby Blackswanwood » 11 Aug 2022, 18:39

If it’s a 5’ metal bar with a point on the end for prying out rocks they are called digging bars at our local agricultural stores.
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Postby the bear » 11 Aug 2022, 18:40

Travis Perkins lists them as digging bars

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Postby Mike G » 11 Aug 2022, 19:20

Yep, my pointy ex-tractor-steering-rod is called a digging bar or digging rod.
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Re: 'Pick bar' - a regional term?

Postby jimmy s » 11 Aug 2022, 20:20

Always known them as pinch bars
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Postby markaw » 11 Aug 2022, 21:26

I had the same problem when looking to buy one. Some shops refer to them as aligning bars.
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Postby jimmy s » 11 Aug 2022, 23:33

Aligning bar, if its for alligning holes for putting steel work up always known them as podgers.
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Re: 'Pick bar' - a regional term?

Postby Lurker » 12 Aug 2022, 07:21

I made my own, maybe forty years ago.
Old pick axe head with one of the spikes rammed into a five foot length of scaffold pole.
I imagine that I copied it from one I had seen somewhere.
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Re: 'Pick bar' - a regional term?

Postby eezageeza » 12 Aug 2022, 08:52

Also for a variation on a theme, try googling fencing bar, or post hole digger - I have one, and a conventional crowbar, and find the fencing bar the more useful of the two.
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Postby Andyp » 12 Aug 2022, 09:15

Can you imagine the fun and games I have in translating some english tool names into french? That is where good old fashioned tool catalogues have the advantage.
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Re: 'Pick bar' - a regional term?

Postby Woodbloke » 12 Aug 2022, 09:56

RogerS wrote:What term did you use ? I put in Pick Bar and get all sorts of weird and wonderful things

'Pick Bar' and one of these (amongst others) comes up: https://www.zoro.co.uk/shop/hand-tools/ ... BwQAvD_BwE - Rob
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Re: 'Pick bar' - a regional term?

Postby RogerS » 12 Aug 2022, 11:30

Woodbloke wrote:
RogerS wrote:What term did you use ? I put in Pick Bar and get all sorts of weird and wonderful things

'Pick Bar' and one of these (amongst others) comes up: https://www.zoro.co.uk/shop/hand-tools/ ... BwQAvD_BwE - Rob



Something very strange between our two computers, Rob. When I follow your link it gives the digging bar as you say but then putting in pick bar in their search box yielded nothing of note.
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Re: 'Pick bar' - a regional term?

Postby canoemoose » 12 Aug 2022, 23:54

As you've discovered, Google gives different results to different people depending on cookies and previous search history and IP address and all sorts...
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Re: 'Pick bar' - a regional term?

Postby clogs » 13 Aug 2022, 07:07

I waited years for mine...it was a great gift ......
here they make em from 30-35mm rebar...
never seen one break or bend by hand....
and man do we have some rocks.....
when I get the skill to post a photo or 2 I'll show u what I had to get out of the footings for the new shed.....hahaha.....funny now but not then........
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