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The job of a caulker was to ensure that the joins of a ship were watertight. A caulker would use these tools to wedge sheets of cotton, which had been impregnated with a pine pitch, between planks/beams of wood. This would swell and cause the joining of the wooden beams to become almost entirely watertight; this same process would be done to the decking of the ship also.
In the days of steel ships the caulkers jobs was still very much the same, using similar tools as his predecessors, the caulker would hammer a large blunt chisel into the plating next to a seam, this would displace the metal just enough to make it water tight.
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This Sculpture of a Stonemason stands on the site of Arrowsmiths Monumental Mason Yard (1905 - later to be owned by Edgar Colbeck until the 1960s)
Designed by Steve Tomlinson of Stokesley and cast by Geoff Robinson in Liverton Mines
Back in the days of the gladiator battles inside the Roman Colosseum, anyone wanting to tag a column or wall had to bring a hammer and chisel. Hard work carving your mark in the limestone columns. Look on the bright side, the work is worth it because you mark will stay forever! This graffiti - a man's name and symbol -- is believed to be over 2,000 years old. What's it say? Caesar Kilroy hic erat.
I hope they take all that sludge somewhere to be treated and decontaminated before they dump it somewhere else.
This is the far end, what it used to look like. Right now it mostly all mud they have not started walling this section as of yet.
Here they are really just getting started. There is a sewer pipe on the other side of those diggers. We thought at the time they were making a water treatment pump. We know now they were getting ready to drain all the water.