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A crowbar with a curved chisel end to provide a fulcrum for leverage and a goose neck to pull nails. A crowbar, also called a wrecking bar, pry bar or prybar, pinch-bar, or occasionally a prise bar or prisebar, colloquially gooseneck, or pig bar, or in Australia a jemmy, [1] is a lever consisting of a metal bar with a single curved end and flattened points, used to force two objects apart or ...
Wedge — an unsharpened blade for digging, breaking and prying. A San Angelo bar has a wedge at one end. Chisel — a sharpened blade for cutting roots, digging and prying. A pinch point bar has a chisel at one end. Bars are typically 5 to 6 ft (1.5 to 1.8 m) long and weigh 15 to 23 lb (6.8 to 10.4 kg).
My Dad, a former Seabee, referred to the kind of bar with a chisel point on one end and the other end tapering to a rounded end, as a "crowbar"--that type of bar is sold in the local hardware stores as a "pinch point bar" (they have other bars that are similar to the photo in the "spud bar" article), and its original purpose was not digging--it ...
A punch down tool with interchangeable blades. A punch down tool, punchdown tool, IDC tool, or a Krone tool (named after the Krone LSA-PLUS connector), is a small hand tool used by telecommunication and network technicians.
A crowbar circuit is an electrical circuit used for preventing an overvoltage or surge condition of a power supply unit from damaging the circuits attached to the power supply. It operates by putting a short circuit or low resistance path across the voltage output (V o ), like dropping a crowbar across the output terminals of the power supply.
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A crowbar is a tool with a curved end used for prying objects apart. Crowbar may also refer to: Digging bar , called a crowbar in the UK and Australia, a straight metal bar used for post hole digging or for leverage
Pincers are a hand tool used in many situations where a mechanical advantage is required to pinch, cut or pull an object. Pincers are first-class levers , but differ from pliers in that the concentration of force is either to a point, or to an edge perpendicular to the length of the tool.