Laborer hand tools

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Common handtools used by laborers. Many of these tools have an origin in ancient times. The basic tools used by laborers today are fundamentally unchanged from those tools used by laborers building the pyramids.

[edit] Heavy Construction Laborers

Asphalt rake (rake (tool))

Blow-pipe (airtool)

Concrete rake

Crowbar (tool)

Digging bar (Spud bar)

Dunnage

Flat broom (Broom)

Hammer

Handsaw

Lever

Mechanical advantage

Pickaxe

Rope and chain

Scraper

Shovel

Simple machine

Sledgehammer

Spirit level

Straightedge

Stringline

Tape measure

Utility knife

Wheelbarrow

[edit] See also

Ancient Egyptian technology

Egyptian pyramid construction techniques

Architecture of ancient Sri Lanka

Roman technology

Giza pyramid complex