[Stonehenge]

Paul, are you finding the saw cut sides to be easier to get good seams on?

[Paul]

We are going to have problems when we get to the curved walls. We had a meeting last week about it and are going to make a few changes in material just because of the curves. The walls go up very fast with cut ends and changes to different stone heights can take place nicely. It also prevents stacked seams, a quick check with the tape here never lies!

[Paul]

here's a pic of that stone work wrapped up or almost

[Paul]

A looking the other way..........

[Paul]

A couple more walls

[GLAN]

Very nice work

Is that a park?








I think it's time to push myself and the business into more design/installation.....specificaly....hardscape.


Paul

I appreciate your participation here at GTX. The work you do and the many helpfull posts are inspiring.

Thanks

[Lanelle]

Paul,
Those walls are looking very nice. Thanks for posting the new pictures.

Are you having to build any stairways?

[Paul]

We have a bit over 200 steps going in but we are still waiting on production of them.

[Stonehenge]

The path looks like it might be for a golf cart. Is it a golf course?

[Paul]

No it's a park Jeff. The path is only 6' wide and pretty steep. ADA says we have to install 12' landings every 30 ' along the path. I'm kinda of worried that some kid on a bike or skate board is going to wipe out on the face of that stone.

[Stonehenge]

Sounds like a valid concern. What steps, if any, can one take to protect oneself against a suit from a kid doing that and hurting himself?

[waterfall larry]

How much did the rock grabber cost? Is there anything under the rock? If there isn't anything under the rock, are you worried about the rock coming loose?

Once or twice we used a spreader bar.

This is just 2 pieces of big diameter round pipe or squre pipe or angle iron. The 2 pieces of pipe run through the pallet where forks would normally go. I don't know how to draw on this site but I am sure you can figure it out. The chain goes around the pipe and hooks to the chain that is attached to the bucket. 4 chain ends atttach to the bucket chain. If you chain up your pallets so they are balanced , the pallets will fly flat and level. A smooth operator helps. If the bars slide any inwards or outwards in the pallet, one end of the spreader bar can be braced with a bar so that you have a 3 sided box.
Once the pallet gets to the drop site, you can slide the blocks out the sides where the chains aren't.


It seems like this grabber thing only flys 1 block at a time, so wouldn't this be a lot slower than flying a whole pallet at a time?


It would seem to me like the spreader bar flying a pallet or half of a pallet at a time would greatly boost your tons laid per day rate.

the spreader bar can be used on any type of pallet for any type of blocks.

There are all sorts of ways to engineer the spreader bars to work safely.

[Paul]

We couldn't use anything like that here each piece needed to be measured and places with different heights used at different layers. We have used spreader bars before on things like concrete mats and wide loads. not possible here, each piece need to be picked and set. The rock grad cost about $3K but it sure makes things fast.

[4seasons]

looks nice paul!