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glatt · 01-17-2019, 05:57 AM

At the peak of the industrial revolution, NYC was being built in no small part out of granite that was brought down from the coast of Maine on ships. The water was fairly deep along the rocky coast of Maine, so the ships would get right up close to the rock outcroppings, and load up. There are still rusty iron rings and spikes driven into the rock that the ships would tie off to, and notches like these, carved into the granite to anchor temporary peirs and gangways in place.

Griff · 01-17-2019, 06:39 AM

no shit

glatt · 01-17-2019, 06:47 AM

Well it's all true, but that might not be what this picture shows. This rock isn't all covered in seaweed.

Griff · 01-17-2019, 06:48 AM

Still, cool insight.

xoxoxoBruce · 01-17-2019, 07:35 AM

It's rock, but far from Maine and much older than NY.
What are they, what are they used for, how are they used.

Diaphone Jim · 01-17-2019, 12:43 PM

I think they are holes for wedges used to mine slabs of limestone, marble and such.

xoxoxoBruce · 01-17-2019, 01:57 PM

Yes, they're holes chiseled in the rock by Egyptian stone cutters a long time ago, but what happens next?

Gravdigr · 01-17-2019, 02:04 PM

Cut along dotted line?

xoxoxoBruce · 01-17-2019, 02:08 PM

Close, split on the dotted line, but how?

Happy Monkey · 01-17-2019, 02:11 PM

Ice?

xoxoxoBruce · 01-17-2019, 02:24 PM

Nope, wood. Fill with sun dried wood and add water, rinse-repeat, swelling wood will split the rock.

Carruthers · 01-17-2019, 04:10 PM

Quote:

Originally Posted by xoxoxoBruce

Nope, wood. Fill with sun dried wood and add water, rinse-repeat, swelling wood will split the rock.

I watched a programme on TV last night which showed operations at a Canadian sandstone quarry.
Vertical holes were drilled in the rock and expanding mortar poured into them.
Within two or three days manageable sized chunks of rock just fell away.

Gravdigr · 01-17-2019, 02:23 PM

Sand and rope.

Gravdigr · 01-17-2019, 02:29 PM

I was thinking cutting once the stone was on site.

Saw a Discovery-type thingy where they showed it the Egyptians mighta/coulda done it that way (the sand and rope thing).

Crooked thinking.

zippyt · 01-17-2019, 09:09 PM

01-17-2019, 06:39 AM	#2
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01-17-2019, 06:48 AM	#4
Griff still says videotape Join Date: Feb 2001 Posts: 26,813	Still, cool insight. __________________ If you would only recognize that life is hard, things would be so much easier for you. - Louis D. Brandeis

01-17-2019, 07:35 AM	#5
xoxoxoBruce The future is unwritten Join Date: Oct 2002 Posts: 71,105	It's rock, but far from Maine and much older than NY. What are they, what are they used for, how are they used. __________________ The descent of man ~ Nixon, Friedman, Reagan, Trump.

01-17-2019, 01:57 PM	#7
xoxoxoBruce The future is unwritten Join Date: Oct 2002 Posts: 71,105	Yes, they're holes chiseled in the rock by Egyptian stone cutters a long time ago, but what happens next? __________________ The descent of man ~ Nixon, Friedman, Reagan, Trump.

01-17-2019, 02:04 PM	#8
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01-17-2019, 05:57 AM	#1
glatt ™ Join Date: Jul 2003 Location: Arlington, VA Posts: 27,717	At the peak of the industrial revolution, NYC was being built in no small part out of granite that was brought down from the coast of Maine on ships. The water was fairly deep along the rocky coast of Maine, so the ships would get right up close to the rock outcroppings, and load up. There are still rusty iron rings and spikes driven into the rock that the ships would tie off to, and notches like these, carved into the granite to anchor temporary peirs and gangways in place.

01-17-2019, 06:47 AM	#3
glatt ™ Join Date: Jul 2003 Location: Arlington, VA Posts: 27,717	Well it's all true, but that might not be what this picture shows. This rock isn't all covered in seaweed.

01-17-2019, 12:43 PM	#6
Diaphone Jim Junior Master Dwellar Join Date: Sep 2007 Location: Northern California Posts: 2,122	I think they are holes for wedges used to mine slabs of limestone, marble and such.

01-17-2019, 02:08 PM	#9
xoxoxoBruce The future is unwritten Join Date: Oct 2002 Posts: 71,105	Close, split on the dotted line, but how? __________________ The descent of man ~ Nixon, Friedman, Reagan, Trump.

01-17-2019, 02:11 PM	#10
Happy Monkey I think this line's mostly filler. Join Date: Jan 2003 Location: DC Posts: 13,575	Ice? __________________ _________________ \|...............\| We live in the nick of times. \| Len 17, Wid 3 \| \|_______________\| [pics]

01-17-2019, 02:24 PM	#11
xoxoxoBruce The future is unwritten Join Date: Oct 2002 Posts: 71,105	Nope, wood. Fill with sun dried wood and add water, rinse-repeat, swelling wood will split the rock. __________________ The descent of man ~ Nixon, Friedman, Reagan, Trump.

01-17-2019, 02:23 PM	#13
Gravdigr The Un-Tuckian Join Date: Apr 2007 Location: South Central...KY that is Posts: 39,517	Sand and rope. __________________ These statements have not been evaluated by the FDA, EPA, FBI, DEA, CDC, or FDIC. These statements are not intended to diagnose, cause, treat, cure, or prevent any disease. If you feel you have been harmed/offended by, or, disagree with any of the above statements or images, please feel free to fuck right off.

01-17-2019, 02:29 PM	#14
Gravdigr The Un-Tuckian Join Date: Apr 2007 Location: South Central...KY that is Posts: 39,517	I was thinking cutting once the stone was on site. Saw a Discovery-type thingy where they showed it the Egyptians mighta/coulda done it that way (the sand and rope thing). Crooked thinking. __________________ These statements have not been evaluated by the FDA, EPA, FBI, DEA, CDC, or FDIC. These statements are not intended to diagnose, cause, treat, cure, or prevent any disease. If you feel you have been harmed/offended by, or, disagree with any of the above statements or images, please feel free to fuck right off.

01-17-2019, 09:09 PM	#15
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