Tamping Pick "V" casual sweatshirt Available Weights:

Available Weights:

truck bed and hands safe

The mid-weight fabric provides warmth without bulk

Built for precision and durability

-sourced steel at our historic West Virginia shop

Tamping Pick "V" casual sweatshirt Available Weights:New, Old Stock Discontinued Prior to the advent of tamping machines, railroad track workers used tamping picks and other specialized hand tools to manually compact ballast (the crushed stone that the ties are laid on). These tools remain useful today. At one end of a tamping pick is a 2 1 2 x 3 4 blunt face designed to compact, break, and shift ballast. In particular, it is used to force additional ballast beneath a tie that has sunk. Of course, its