Made a Start on Arbor

finerly got to pick up the stone
The Guy Had Some Some Beautiful Stuff But A Lot too BIG For the Scale I Will be Building On
He had a Arch Way that Spand 8"ft Wide out of the Front of a Church 2 Ton Aprox a Pair of Hevely Carved Gate Post Again 2 Ton Ish All Old Re Claimed Plus other Stuff Defantley a Guy I Will Be Keeping in Touch With

But As it Happens Was a Stone Mason I Have Never Seen How Stone Masons Work Before or How they Load Stuff or Move it With out a Fork Lift the Fork lift Wasent Working When I Got There And There was Something I Loved and Thought I Like That How or Where Can I Use That?? it was a Sand Stone Apex But a Little Big in 3 Sections and Around Half a Ton My Pick up Can Only Carry Half a Ton the Stone I Went For Was Massive Bigger then it Appers in the Picture

So is this Apex the Guy Kindle Said if You Dont Mind or Want to Come Back I Can Cut You Stone in Half Making it Easy to Manover and Build in to Your Arbor

So How He Loaded it on too My Pick up He Drilled a Hole in Each Pice of Stone Twisting in this Shakell thingy Put a Scaffold Pipe thru the Hoop Ring and Me and Him Picked them up NO PROBLEM & Got them On My Pick up

PROBLEM I CAN NOT GET THEM OFF Looks Like Calling on My Bros and a Few Mates to Even Get them off My Truck

and Got to Go back Next Tuesday to Collect the Other Piece
These Pics Do Not Do this Stone Justice as too Age or Size Hope You Like it as Much As I Do

just Got to Get it off My Truck Tomorrow

 

That is a great piece of stone, FM

Why not give the guy a call and ask him if there is a trick/technique for getting them off your van?

 

He Did Ask Me How on Earth Am You Going to Get This off the Back of Your Van? just Rang My Brother & Brother in Law they am Coming After Work Today

I Will Pop Out Side & Take a Pic of it on the Pickup its Massive

 

Where The Stone Mason Stored the stuff he had for sale was a Dairy Farm

I Had to Drive thru a Herd of Cattle They Come Right up to the Window of My Van

 

He used a Lewis Pin Nick. Been used since Roman times to lift stone.

When we've had to move big stones without one we've built a lattice of timber upto it, slid the stone onto it, then take out a piece of timber at a time, or tilting the stone & adding timber to jack it up.

Might pay you to get a lewis pin & an A frame if you're going to have to move them a few times. You could use the A frame to move VW engines too.

 

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lewis_(lifting_appliance)

 

Zigs is the Don God Zigs is the Collage Knowledge That is Exatley Wot He Used in them Pics I Would Like One Bit Expensive at the Mo trying to rebuild pick up and finish ice cream van and build this Arbor Sertanley Busy @ the Mo

 

You're a hero Nick the jobs you take on. You sure have guts!

 

Cheeky cow(s)!!

 

Just Having a Go moyra & Loveing Every Minute of it

 

Try borrowing a pair off a local stonemason, they don't use them all the time.

 

Will Do Had a Right Result Today Driving past a Midi Skip and saw some old Bricks Knocked the Door and Asked if I Could Have Some??

The Guy said I Would be Doing Him a Favor 150 i got Then The Guy Asked me if I Had Any Use For 4 Sand Stone Victorian Scrolls the type that go under Victorian window sills said he had kept them for 10 years or so off a job and had no use for them and gave me them gave me a few roof tiles as well

He Asked if I Drive Past on a Regular Bassis I Said Yer Most Days Told me too look by his gate over the next few Days wot ever he leaves is mine

Looks Like a Bottle of Something Nice is in Order

 

Result

 

They definitely see you coming Nick! Perhaps you should re-introduce the old 'rag and boneman' thing and tour the streets ringing a bell from you pick-up. Who knows what you might turn up!

 

*sneaks off for a peak over FM's fence to see what I can haggle off him*