The rock was excavated only with plug and feathers.
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These methods include plug and feather, gad and wedge, and gunpowder blasting.
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The method spread quickly and became the basis of the modern plug and feather method still used today.
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A similar technique, called plug and feather, involves driving wedges into lines of small diameter holes that have been drilled in the rock.
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In a chance encounter in the same year, Robbins came into contact with Mr . Tarbox who was using a modified version of the plug and feather method described by Deane.
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In New England, the plug and feather technique is first mentioned in " The New-England Farmer; Or, Georgical Dictionary " ( 1790 ) by Samuel Deane.
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The village has a local shop \ post office and two pub / restaurants : " The Young Vanish ", ( an unusual name derived from that of a 19th-century champion race horse ), and the " Plug and Feathers " ( previously a Ma Hubbards venue ) formerly and traditionally the Glapwell Hotel, known by many local as " The New Un " ).
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This is done using " hydro-bags ", which are thin, flat, steel bags or envelopes that when inflated with water under moderate pressure, are capable of producing the forces necessary to loosen the stone to the point where it can be easily removed using large wheeled pneumatic drills is arduous work and so wire-saws have been introduced into the quarries, replacing much of the plug and feather cutting.
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