Method of making sure of safety for the pickaxes

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 video shows the method how we are making sure that pickaxes are safe and don’t slip off its wooden handle. Wood expands while soaking some water and metal part of the pickaxe remains firmly on its handle.