A fenceman can fence anything, almost....

[txdon]

Wow, a fencing post that went all the way down to the basement! My plans for a basement have nothing to do with the frost line but rather to grab the cooler air from under ground with a copula to bring cool air to the living area. I hope it works. So Harvey, how is it going, I know the heat has been slowing me down. I need a pool.........or at least a pond without snakes....

 

[wroughtn_harv]

Heat's definately a factor Don, definately a factor.

But it must be a lot hotter in Oklahoma. We ordered the stone three weeks ago. It was supposed to be delivered a week ago today. Every day this week we've been told they had just finished cutting it and were loading it onto the truck. It would be here by five p.m.

If it isn't at the stoneyard a seven a.m. this morning I've got to make a call canceling the day's work for seven people. There will be some shuffling to rearrange work for everyone involved.

I had scheduled working through the weekend to make up for the rock not being here earlier. If the rock does come in today we'll have to reschedule everything to start again Monday.

It's very disappointing. But it's a fact of life that we can't change. I had a conversation last night with someone involved in a project that involves thousands of tons of Oklahoma stone and they're having the same problem.

 

[Renze]

Harvey can you send a bill for 7 people times 8 hour a day of labor, is 56 hours, to the stone company ?

We had a guy that drove 110 km to pick up a rented trailer, but the other renter didnt bring it back yet. That guy will get the bill for 2x 110 km plus the lost hours of the other renter.

 

[rox]

Harv,

Your work delays are minor compared to the French. Here is a great book. You can probably order it from Amazon. Pick up "A Year in Provence" Harv you would love this book, trust me. You will LOVE this book. All fo you TBNes would love the book.

 

[wroughtn_harv]

Rox and Renze, we have the same situations here in the States. You can go from one area of the country to another and find work attitude a hundred and eighty degrees difference.

Heck, you can go less than a hundred miles north from Dallas and enter a whole different world when it comes to attitude about getting things done. I'm about in the middle, geographically and philosophically.

About two thirds of the stone slabs found their way to the stoneyard yesterday about noon.

 

[TwinWillows]

Good grief those slabs look heavy! How do you move them around & into place?

 

[EddieWalker]

Heavy AND awkward!!!!

I'm trying to imagine what it will be like moving them around on that slope. One missed step, or slipping while walking, and it's going down. Maybe a crane????

Do you start at the bottom and work your way up? Can the first step support the weight of the next stone?

Awkward but interesting,
Eddie

 

[PineRidge]

I'de be real curious to know what a pallet of stone like that is worth Harv.

That stuff looks like it would put hernias where they don't belong.

 

[wroughtn_harv]

The slabs weigh between two fifty and four hundred lbs.

All the work with them once we get down to the lower level (upper level of the walk way) will be done with leverage and luck.

The stone was cut to our dimensions. It's almost three hundred dollars a ton. One of those pallets weigh between thirty five hundred and four thousand lbs.

We will be handling the stones quite a bit. We will have to get them down from the street to the lower level. There I'll pick a stone I feel is appropriate and manuever it down to the place it's supposed to be on the walk way. Once I have it where I want it I'll turn the rock over so I can drill the locating pin holes.

The way it will work is every stone after the first one (last one since it's the bottom one) will be held in place by a couple of locating pins that attach it to the framework I've installed. It'll have the next stone laying on top of it and that stone will also have locating pins to the framework. Every stone will have gravity and mechanical advantages. ; > )

The positive side of this method is the farther up the walk way we get the less distance we have to move stone.

Job planning!!

 

[turnkey4099]

Jeez, they muist be paying as much for that project as the house cost!

Harry K