Im not a stone mason

Jeff · October 23, 2021, 10:58:56 AM

And well, this aint really stone masonry, but I think I did okay. Those boxes of stone had been sitting on the screen porch for so long, the boxes rotted off of them. The scratch coat prep behind the stove shows up in pictures from over 20 years ago.

I had enough of moving that stone, so did the right thing, and instead of mortar, I bought 12 tubes of gorrila construction adhesive. Got one left, and one whole stone!

This cultured stone has a set pattern to go togther, so again I did the right thing and paid no attention to that since a pile of them were broken. Ill include a pic of that from one of the surviving boxes. The boxes are dated 2013, so thats how long they were out there.

Tammy and I now have a new game. Identify the critters and forms in the stone!

barbender · October 23, 2021, 11:02:04 AM

Looks great!👍🏻👍🏻

WDH · October 23, 2021, 11:32:43 AM

Yes, excellent!

doc henderson · October 23, 2021, 12:22:43 PM

looks natural and great. in the one pic, it really looks like a deer head! ;) :D

mike_belben · October 23, 2021, 02:58:41 PM

Great job jeff

CCCLLC · October 23, 2021, 04:05:25 PM

Yes, that is a good look. Great job.

SwampDonkey · October 23, 2021, 04:31:13 PM

You did real good. I'm with Doc, I'm sure I saw a deer in the wall. :D

trimguy · October 23, 2021, 05:26:03 PM

Looks good.

Tom King · October 23, 2021, 06:12:18 PM

I am a stone mason, and it looks great to me!!!

WDH · October 23, 2021, 06:17:46 PM

The deer that I see has big ears.

Jeff · October 23, 2021, 07:57:25 PM

Indian brave silhouette.

Southside · October 23, 2021, 08:04:28 PM

That looks awesome. No repeating pattern could have come out that nice.

SawyerTed · October 23, 2021, 08:56:42 PM

Very nice! I believe you are better than a stone mason to have made that turn out so good with very little experience!

Jeff · October 23, 2021, 09:08:28 PM

I didn't feel like I was laying stone. I felt like I was creating a mosaic. There is very little computive areas left in my brain that work normally, but the creative parts still fire uon occasion.

thecfarm · October 23, 2021, 09:19:42 PM

Yes a fine job was done!!

Resonator · October 24, 2021, 07:04:15 AM

Turned out nice!

21incher · October 24, 2021, 08:31:04 AM

Excellent job. Title should be
I should have been a stone mason

Don P · October 24, 2021, 08:37:16 AM

That looks great. My partner is pressure washing rocks this week and moving them to the wall, come on down ;D

Jeff · October 24, 2021, 08:50:11 AM

I do have some experience with real rock. I built a split stone retaining wall at the front entrance of the house when I was in my early twenties. I tore it down a few years ago after pete died. I recognized that it was going to make entry and exit of the house very tough if one of us was to get sick like pete did, so, tore it out and built was is there now. With that project, i had a lot of unused broken stone. This one, one whole chunk and some pieces was all that was left and no sledge hammer required!

I didnt make a video on this job. I just buried myself in it. I thought about it, but I was enjoying the work to much. Really.

My other stone work being dismantled.

Moving our stone wall - YouTube

Jeff · October 25, 2021, 10:19:26 AM

Cougar

Jeff · October 25, 2021, 10:29:49 AM

Picture coming. My upload here is now nil. Takes 5 minutes to jst post

bannerd · October 25, 2021, 10:45:35 AM

looks like the wood stove has a set of teeth.

Jeff · October 25, 2021, 11:10:58 AM

It"s actually gas, but im looking for a woodstove! Brandon done screwed up even our reasonable propane prices, and if they shut down line 5, it may become what ever unobtainable costs a gallon. I'm working towards eventual offgrid possibilities here.

Silverback Gorrila head looking right.

jb616 · October 25, 2021, 11:37:59 AM

Welcome to the "I'm not a...." series by @Jeff 8) but he is a master of some...

jb616 · October 25, 2021, 11:40:04 AM

Quote from: Jeff on October 25, 2021, 11:10:58 AM
It"s actually gas, but im looking for a woodstove! Brandon done screwed up even our reasonable propane prices, and if they shut down line 5, it may become what ever unobtainable costs a gallon. I'm working towards eventual offgrid possibilities here.

Silverback Gorrila head looking right.

Almost missed that...Let's go Brandon

delete if not allowed :D