Method of mounting the metal part of the pickaxe onto its handle

The quality of pickaxes in East Africa is terrible. They are sold in parts, metal pickaxe part is sold separate from wooden handles and neither the metal part nor the wooden handles are all the same, so they have to be prepared and mounted together before any small scale mining work can start.

This is the method of how we are mounting the metal part of the pickaxe onto its wooden handle.

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