photo credit: Craig Chesek,
© American Museum of Natural History

PRYBAR

It's amazing what a simple lever can move. Pry bars come in a variety of lengths to match the job at hand. They are wedged into cracks in order to extract boulders from an outcrop. They're also used to raise a rock so the chain or sling from a boom truck can be slipped underneath it. Large pry bars were an essential tool for many Gottesman Hall of Planet Earth expeditions, including the one pictured here.