Ash and hickory are the best wood species for a pickaxe or mattock with a wooden handle. These hardwoods are very strong and ...

If you’ve got to break up hard ground — concrete, asphalt, hard-packed dirt, etc. — nothing does the job better than a pickaxe. It’s a straightforward tool, and at first glance looks much the same ...

A Berks County man who was 17 when he beat a man to death with a pickaxe handle more than two decades ago has seen his eighth bid to overturn his life prison sentence end in defeat. The state Superior ...

A MAN who brandished a pick axe handle outside in a North-East nightspot has been jailed for a year. Anthony Dixon, 25, threatened revellers at the Union bar in Consett, County Durham, believing a ...