Limestone slabs

[dooleysm]

My inlaws own a construction supply house. They moved to a larger building last spring and after moving most of the everyday supplies, have been slowly moving the less frequently used stuff to clean up the old business site.

I was down there last weekend with my brother in law and we uncovered several pallets of limestone slabs. These were used in a style of home construction that is not popular around here anymore. You may have seen houses that have limestone block for the bottom 2-3 feet of the exterior and then brick for the top part. These limestone slabs we uncovered were the pieces that made the border between the limestone block and the brick.

They are all about 3" thick and come in various lengths. Many are about 3-4 feet long and maybe 6-8 inches wide.

Any ideas on what a guy could do with these? Anyone near southern Indiana want them? I know I could get you a great deal on them.

I thought about maybe trying to construct an outdoor barbecue pit. So far, that's about my best idea. Another idea was to try to construct benches out of them, but I'm not sure how I could do that. Or, what I would do with a bunch of stone benches.

 

[dmccarty]

dooleysm,

They would make great plant bed edgers.

Be a PITA to set but once in place they ain't going anywhere.

I just put in 500 or so edgers at 15 pounds each. They are easy to make curves out of and sure look good. The curvey wavey lines do look better than straight lines for some reason. But I could use what you have for sure. Too bad I some far away.

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Later,
Dan

 

[KentT]

Here in the Northeast, they use granite curbs instead of poured concrete...

That may be one use for them...

 

[BB_TX]

Someone doing a landscaping project could use them as edging, short retaining walls for small elevation changes, steps, pathways, etc. You would probably pay well for those at a landscaping supply house.

 

[Birdhunter1]

I'm getting ready to do some landscaping projects this spring and I'd also like to cover the porch off the back of my house and I will most likley be buildng a 3'-4' perimter wall of stone or brick around the area to be covered.
Southern indian isnt too far from me, do you have any pictures of these slabs? What kind of prices are we looking at?

You can email them to me if you want.

 

[dooleysm]

I don't think there's enough to build a wall like you're talking about. I will try to get some pictures of them. I drove by them this afternoon again. The slabs are closer to 6-8 feet long.

 

[Silver_Knight]

BBQ Grill

 

[tawilson]

Pet headstones.

 

[GabeTX]

You could make a miniature Stonehenge on your front lawn!

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[Birdhunter1]

I'm looking at building a wall about 15' long and maybe 3' high at the highest with something like you are talking about.

 

[EddieWalker]

I'd break them into smaller pieces and use them for steping stones. If the color was real nice, maybe even a flagstone patio or pad to put a nice garden bench on.

Eddie

 

[dooleysm]

I'll be down that way tomorrow. I'm going to take the camera along and try to get some pictures of all that limestone.

They got all kinds of assorted stuff down there. It's turning into a big job sorting through it all and trying what to decide what to do with it. Some of us are in favor of junking it all and some want to keep everything. There's a few odd sized and colored garage doors, old fan motors, odd colored or out of date siding, random sized windows, all kinds of stuff like that. Stuff that would be really useful to the right person, but that person may not show up for the next 20 years. It's a confusing problem.

 

[KentT]

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Sounds like eBay to me... if you or someone has the time to list it, respond to emails, etc.

 

[Paddy]

I live in Bloomington, so I guess close by. The issue is S. Indiana is there is limestone everywhere. I don't know how it's today, but years past you could get a truck load of scrap for 3-$5. Or better yet, 10 tons delivered for the haul bill.

Use it yourself for around the house. It cuts like butter with circle saw and mason blade

 

[DocHeb]

You could contact Habitat for Humanity - they might be able to use them on one of their projects. That size stone was often used for windowsills and door thresholds.

 

[LBrown59]

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