rock drills

Quarry mining tools

Rock drills are power tools designed to bore holes into rock, stone, or concrete.

They range from handheld pneumatic or electric devices used in construction and mining to large truck-mounted rigs for quarrying and tunneling.

The term covers both the complete machine and the drill bits themselves: The crew set up rock drills along the tunnel face.

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excavation · masonry · bit · mine shaft · quarrying · rigs · boring machine · underground mining · prospecting · breaking ground · construction equipment · compressed air · surface mining · penetration · mole · mining tools · borings · borers

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Unpowered grip-operated devices

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Family

rock, rocks, rocked, rocking, rocker, rocky, rockier, rockiest, drill

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Top 200,000
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Used worldwide · Timeless · Concrete · Rated G