Plumbing was a major challenge, and I gaped in awe as our guy melted lead for joints stuffed with oakum in steel drainpipes lowered into the building’s basement to enter the urban sewage.

20 five barges, each 22 elbow-lengths (30 to 32 feet long), caulked with palmetto oakum and tarred with pine-pitch, were finished,” Cabeza de Vaca wrote. Using the makeshift boats, the Spanish ...

However, the team hopes to do most of the work using more traditional materials and techniques, including using oakum - loose fibre obtained by untwisting rope -pressed into the gaps of a boat's ...

But consider the horrors that Wilde faced once he entered prison. He was made to pace a treadmill for hours each day, pick oakum, sleep on a plank, his latrine a metal bucket. He developed an ear ...

The site was home to a manufacturing facility that made twine and oakum for ships. A 10-alarm fire damaged most of the warehouses in 2006, leaving the properties in ruin. The fire was determined ...

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But by the 1850s, almost 2,000 people lived there. As The Guardian explains, residents received food and shelter but also had to work difficult and repetitive jobs like oakum picking and stone ...

Just before midnight on March 12, 1928, about 40 miles north of Los Angeles, one of the biggest dams in the country blew apart, releasing a wall of water 20 stories high. Ten thousand people lived ...

all the way down from the skeletal structure of the ship down to the oakum, which is oak shavings and cotton twisted together stuffed between each board in the tar they paint all over the ship.