torque is measured in foot pounds so why use your hands. foot tools could also be used in conjuntion with hand tools to stave off autommation for one more year.
-- bob, Apr 05 2018

clay footing http://www.miningma...elling-in-the-deep/
[not_morrison_rm, Apr 05 2018]

"Clay-kicking – also known as ‘working on the cross’ – had been developed in the UK for driving tunnels through clay-based geology for sewer, road and railway works... It used leg power to dig rather than hand tools such as picks or mattocks..."

See link
-- not_morrison_rm, Apr 05 2018


// torque is measured in foot pounds //

Only in very primitive societies. Advanced civilizations use the SI unit oif torque, which is the Newton-metre.
-- 8th of 7, Apr 05 2018


Would you walk the torque?
-- pertinax, Apr 05 2018


If your foot pounds the ground, the answer is yes.
-- 8th of 7, Apr 05 2018


Why on Earth is a toque measured in foot pounds? Is this a Newfie thing?
-- 2 fries shy of a happy meal, Apr 05 2018


More of a sad anachronism, actually.
-- 8th of 7, Apr 05 2018


It could also be measured in bushel-chains or peck-furlongs I suppose.
-- pocmloc, Apr 05 2018


For true historical validity, cubit-talents (length and weight from Pharonic Egypt) would be appropriate.
-- 8th of 7, Apr 05 2018


Don't get all up tight about it, [IT] - it's just a wind-up.
-- 8th of 7, Apr 06 2018


You seem to have got the measure of the problem, then; the answer is now ver nier.
-- 8th of 7, Apr 07 2018



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