The Spanish were forced to "make a road with crowbar and pickaxe". Usually, this spike was slightly curved downwards, much like a miner's pickaxe. The prospectors would often break into the bank using a pickaxe and hammer. The Mountain Man impales Eirik with his pickaxe, killing him. Both sides then armed themselves with staves, sticks and pickaxe handles. The second quartering shows a sheaf, a plow, and a pickaxe. The "dolabra" was an Italian pickaxe used as an entrenching tool. Butcher kills him with a pickaxe in issue #33. Frustrated, Sam burrows his way under his base and into Bugs' base using a pickaxe. He's then smashed in the head by the blunt end of a pickaxe. Upon discovering Thornton, Tucker grazed her shoulder with the pickaxe. One noticeable thing was that the pickaxe was made from silver and gold. "" features a unique item called the "Notched Pickaxe", named after Persson. Maddox confronted the group with a bare pickaxe handle. Gnaeus Domitius Corbulo said, "you defeat the enemy with a pickaxe".