How to split a large boulder

[Brains]

https://www.facebook.com/StellarNexus/videos/1624321904504826/?pnref=story
An 86 year old demolishes granite boulders

 

[rhychydwr1]

A bit like watching paint dry?

 

[ianball11]

I must enjoy watching paint dry.

 

[rhychydwr1]

I have to admire the way the chap used the hammer.  I am sure I would have missed and got my fingers.

 

[Wayland Smith]

Imagine doing that all day, every day, in all weathers.
Places like the quarries at the top of the Clee hills in Shropshire.
Then "bosting" the blocks down to the size of the setts behind him. 

 

[Simon Wilson]

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=gVZr3WbMQ6w