South of Heaven (2012)
“Two men, spelling one another, worked each jackhammer. I took the place of a guy who’d had so much of it that even a mormon board looked good to him. He didn’t know mormon boards, I guess, or maybe he just had an awful hate for jackhammers. Which is a mighty easy thing to get.
You’ve probably seen jackhammers—or airhammers, to use their proper name. They’re used in breaking up pavement and the like. They have a two-handed grip across the top, in the shape of an elongated oval, with a heavy ...air-cylinder extending down from it. A steel drill fits into the end of the cylinder, and when the air is cut in that drill begins to vibrate and bounce about umpteen times a second.
It’s not the only thing that vibrates, either, as you may have noticed. Hanging on to that jackhammer is like holding on to a steel wildcat with St. Vitus’ dance. It shakes you from your shoe soles to your eyeballs, and little chips of rock sting your hide like birdshot, and I guess God must have his ears plugged to the noise because he sure wouldn’t put up with it if he could hear it.MoreLess
You’ve probably seen jackhammers—or airhammers, to use their proper name. They’re used in breaking up pavement and the like. They have a two-handed grip across the top, in the shape of an elongated oval, with a heavy ...air-cylinder extending down from it. A steel drill fits into the end of the cylinder, and when the air is cut in that drill begins to vibrate and bounce about umpteen times a second.
It’s not the only thing that vibrates, either, as you may have noticed. Hanging on to that jackhammer is like holding on to a steel wildcat with St. Vitus’ dance. It shakes you from your shoe soles to your eyeballs, and little chips of rock sting your hide like birdshot, and I guess God must have his ears plugged to the noise because he sure wouldn’t put up with it if he could hear it.MoreLess
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