Chicago Pneumatic has highlighted the flexibility of some of its tools which are equally at home on a dig for 135 million year old fossils, as they are in a busy automotive workshop environment. 

The company has supplied many of its tools to Fossils Galore, a ‘One of a kind’ educational activity Centre located in Cambridgeshire, UK. Founded in 2003 by curator Jamie Jordan, it is a small museum that also offers educational fossil hunting trips from its Educational Activity Centre. Jamie is a qualified Archaeologist and self-educated Palaeontologist, credited with over 50 important fossil finds.

On a ‘Dig’ in Surrey in February 2017 the team began work removing large sections of clay containing bone specimens using tooling such as the CP7150 hammer Gun and then CP9361 Industrial Air Scribes supplied and sponsored by Chicago Pneumatic.

In May Jamie along with fellow enthusiast and Manager Sarah Moore announced their biggest find of all, ‘Indie’ The Iguanodon’. The specimen is 135 million years old, 10 meters long and weighs in at 3.4 Tons.

The museum now has a purpose-built observation work room and will continue using the Chicago Pneumatic tools over the next 3 years so they can remove the bones carefully and intact taking casts and ultimately having their dinosaur displayed. Schools and enthusiasts will be able to visit the Centre and see the progress being made.