Rake-a-Pick

Rake-a-Pick: verb. Rake-a-Picking is an Icelandic technique used in the agricultural industry and to a no lesser extent in landfilling, levelling and house building. To rake-a-pick is quite hard, the technique being highly dependent on the availability of fresh lava (or magma if doing the process is for some reason needed under ground). The whole idea consists of using an instrument that is a pickaxe from one side and a rake from the other to break through the walls of volcanoes and then evenly spreading out the lava that rushes out. Every other year, Icelanders meet up for the biannual rake-a-picking contest on the sides of the volcano eyyafyallayöküll. However, the contest always ends up in someone getting injured, escorted to the hospital and the whole thing being cancelled, which explains why the vicinity of the volcano is not perfectly flat as would be the case if the contests were successful.