forgeblast
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Busy Summer. This year I was able to get a lot done.
1. Put field stone on our house. I used type S mortar. The joints were pointed and then brushed with a dry paintbrush. The fieldstone was mostly from a sometimes creek(sometimes it runs) that flooded this spring. I picked most of the stone from areas where it deposited from the storm. It involved walking down deer paths and filling two 5 gallon buckets and coming back up filling the small lawn tractor trailer. Then taking the stone, washing it and sorting it. The next morning I would put stone on the house until my knees were done. The stone that didn稚 make it to the house went to the stone wall.
just starting on the one side
I spent 8 hours one day and put 120 lbs of mortar into the joints I had opened to get as much finished as I could.
2. Wired up our barn Ran the wire years ago, finally had it hooked up. This way we can run lights and all of the tools. Also cleaned up the main house panel.
3. Build a hearth and install a lp stove. Started with a cardboard template and built a 2x4 base, lots of support. Put plywood over that and then fieldstone cut to fit. I put cement board over the sides of the 2x4 and put fieldstone on it. I will be putting fieldstone behind it and hanging the mantle. Our local brick place had precast corbels for the mantle with rebar and steel mounting plates installed on them. The will look great with the fieldstone. Went with Lp due to allergies of wife and little one. Also our chimney was not done right so we would get back pressure pushing smoke down it.
the cardboard idea.
the finished product.
The corbels we will use
I was able to get fieldstone and other stone from different parts of our property, I am also thinking of trying to incorporate some fossils into it. (ill post pics once its done.)
1. Put field stone on our house. I used type S mortar. The joints were pointed and then brushed with a dry paintbrush. The fieldstone was mostly from a sometimes creek(sometimes it runs) that flooded this spring. I picked most of the stone from areas where it deposited from the storm. It involved walking down deer paths and filling two 5 gallon buckets and coming back up filling the small lawn tractor trailer. Then taking the stone, washing it and sorting it. The next morning I would put stone on the house until my knees were done. The stone that didn稚 make it to the house went to the stone wall.
I spent 8 hours one day and put 120 lbs of mortar into the joints I had opened to get as much finished as I could.
2. Wired up our barn Ran the wire years ago, finally had it hooked up. This way we can run lights and all of the tools. Also cleaned up the main house panel.
3. Build a hearth and install a lp stove. Started with a cardboard template and built a 2x4 base, lots of support. Put plywood over that and then fieldstone cut to fit. I put cement board over the sides of the 2x4 and put fieldstone on it. I will be putting fieldstone behind it and hanging the mantle. Our local brick place had precast corbels for the mantle with rebar and steel mounting plates installed on them. The will look great with the fieldstone. Went with Lp due to allergies of wife and little one. Also our chimney was not done right so we would get back pressure pushing smoke down it.
The corbels we will use
I was able to get fieldstone and other stone from different parts of our property, I am also thinking of trying to incorporate some fossils into it. (ill post pics once its done.)