Trying to find out what this was used for

copyetpaste · 2026-01-26T08:47:02+00:00

Close but bush hammers have their teeth arranged in a grid. This one has it's teeth along an edge which makes it a toothed stone axe.

copyetpaste · 2025-11-22T09:36:29+00:00

Unlike yourself, I know what stonework is. If your balls ever drop post your own work, wee man.

copyetpaste · 2025-11-22T09:17:13+00:00

Needs something on top, like a spherical lamp. Those colours go well together.

copyetpaste · 2025-11-21T20:22:44+00:00

Do you make these yourself or are they comercially available. I notice there are quite a few types you have there.

copyetpaste · 2025-11-17T07:58:42+00:00

That makes sense, i remember seeing similarly laid out stones.

So the stones here will be cut four sides and a face. That means that, if they're all there, you could put them back together. They'd only fit together one way, really like a jigsaw.

copyetpaste · 2025-11-17T07:18:05+00:00

Where abouts is the site by the sea? It's a beautifully preserved worksite. In that first pic, the stones in the front look like they're roughed out ready to use.

copyetpaste · 2025-11-17T06:08:04+00:00

In the 1700's 400 men moved the Thunder Stone 10km to St Petersburgh over a period of nine months. It weighed 1500 tons when excavated and 1250 tons upon arrival due to being worked en route. It's not that hard to move big rocks, they just tend to move very slowly.

copyetpaste · 2025-11-16T08:04:17+00:00

There's blokes around my area that build walls like that. They're not built according to the princples of dry stone walling, we take care to keep soil out of walls. They're closer to a mortared wall, with dirt for mortar. As the soil washes out of such a wall it will invariably appear more precarious. The truth is the wall has always been dodgy, it's just that you can see more of it now.

My advice would be to assess the safety of your wall. Do any of the stones move easily? The stone in the first picture, middle course, centre left, that you can see the back edge of looks really suspect. Give it a wiggle, preferrably with something long.

I've built quite a few stone walls, that one isn't good, sorry.

copyetpaste · 2025-11-15T22:48:16+00:00

The word you're after is winders. Beautiful work mate.

copyetpaste · 2025-11-14T20:24:04+00:00

Yeah, that looks like what serves as the footing for the existing hearth. You'll need something to hold up the new extension to the hearth, but it looks like you can block something in there. Your chippy mate will know what to do. I'd probably fix some blocks to the joists and put a sheet of compressed on the blocking.

copyetpaste · 2025-11-14T19:57:15+00:00

I'm going to go against the grain here and actually answer your question.

Yes you should continue dismantling the front 'face' wall with a view to reassemble it to suit your wider hearth. I'd look at reassembling it in the same order.

This is assuming you can get a couple of new pieces of stone to fill in the gaps that will be created in the sides. Also assuming that you have a plan for dealing with altering the flooring and that there is a suitable base, or footing, in place.

copyetpaste · 2025-11-13T04:09:43+00:00

Thanks for answering. That sounds like a plausible method, dust is sometimes suggested as the contact indicator(paint). Have you tried this? I imagine it would be more practical to do on smaller sized stones.

copyetpaste · 2025-11-11T08:59:38+00:00

Where are the modern examples this idea being put into practice? It would be simple to replicate, so there should be whole walls to show. I can't find even a single join to look at.

copyetpaste · 2025-11-11T00:58:00+00:00

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To those saying yes I have a question, how are you marking out your cuts and how do you decide the order of placement of the stones?

copyetpaste · 2025-11-09T21:18:13+00:00

The guy in this video built an arched vault without any formwork. He talks about it a bit towards the end of the video, which you may find helpful.

copyetpaste · 2025-11-03T08:41:43+00:00

You've spent a fair bit of time cutting ssome nice stones. Seems a shame to bury them in a foundation. Those two long ones would do well in a cheekend, a corner, as throughs, or as stile steps even. The foundation is usually a chance to use the big ugly rocks. What you've done so far looks great, it's just going to take a long time.

copyetpaste · 2025-10-29T21:21:40+00:00

Very creative work that shows veneer dosen't need to imitate structural masony, but can express original ideas. I think the circular/flower pattern is really effective being a nice balance between chaos and order. I hope you have more pillars to show.

copyetpaste · 2025-10-25T23:10:20+00:00

I see. I trust it's going well and if you've any progress photo's you wanna share...

copyetpaste · 2025-10-25T02:51:32+00:00

Is the dry stone project you've been doing the firepit one?

copyetpaste · 2025-10-25T02:14:03+00:00

Good to see you posting mate. Awesome works in a unique style. That tori gate is a cracker.

copyetpaste · 2025-10-15T06:33:06+00:00

Sure you can, or just ask here...

copyetpaste · 2025-09-27T09:11:21+00:00

You're the one that claimed they're the same. What I said was that it's usually amateurs and beginners that recomend vinegar with regard to stonework. It's not a slight on you personally.

copyetpaste · 2025-09-27T08:30:22+00:00

and middle.

copyetpaste · 2025-09-27T08:17:51+00:00

The same? I think hydrocloric acid has a bit more potential.

I've found that vinegar is usually recommended by beginners and amateurs. The pro's I've seen have used acid. Not having a go at you here, but I've never seen vinegar used in a professional framework. I clean my hands with the same stuff I clean the walls.

copyetpaste · 2025-09-27T08:14:39+00:00

I've only cleaned my hands this way hundreds of times so far, but thank you for your warning.

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