The Navy Civil Engineer Corps is responsible for large-scale construction and public works projects, and engineer candidates are required to display leadership and supervisory skills. The Corps is ...
With all cutting operations involving concrete, bricks or stone, there is a real danger of injury from flying scalpings. ALWAYS wear protective goggles/glasses, and when cutting with a power saw wear a dust mask and use water suppression. Power saws are lethal in the wrong hands.
The workmen would use a number of different tools to cut the blocks, including copper pickaxes and chisels, granite hammers, dolerite and other hard stone tools. The finer, white limestone employed in the pyramids and mortuary temples was not as easy to quarry, and had to be found further from the building site.