Sure is quiet in here....do I need to start a fight?

[Jimmy in NC]

Found this in the front of the ancient boat house where we were renting last weekend. Wonder what the pig is rated for...

 

[Cantdog]

Just by the shaft size I'd guess 4-8000 lbs line pull.......perhaps not with that motor.....must have been fairly quick as not much reduction with that pulley set up.

 

[Jimmy in NC]

Very flat grade and I am assuming a track setup at one point to just pull boats up out of the puddle on a carriage. Probably could do it with much less. I am guessing speed was critical.

 

[Cantdog]

Had to go down the Harborside (Cape Rosier, Brooksville, Me) yesterday to fit the custom screens I built to screen in an 8 foot by 9 foot garage door.....went fairly well but the jambs were allover the place....knew that going in so I built to the largest dimensions. I mentioned this place earlier.....these poor folks are forced to live in their garage while the rest of the place is built. I feel bad for them......we're also working on two other properties they own nearby......check out the stone work!!.....It's only partially completed......

 

[Cantdog]

Couple more......

 

[Cantdog]

Different stone work from different stone guys......this will be their patio/barby area once completed......this is where the right hand granite stairway leads too. All this ovahlooking the Penobscot River , just across the Bagaduce River from Castine of course....

 

[Cantdog]

All clearing and wood cutting was done by my neighbor using only Hooskvarnahz........if you're gonna do this quality work you gotta start with good equipment!!!

 

[pioneerguy600]

Could cut those toothpicks with a handsaw, Husky be a second choice....LOL
That close fittin stone work wasn`t done in one day, very fine fitment there.

 

[Cantdog]

Could cut those toothpicks with a handsaw, Husky be a second choice....LOL
That close fittin stone work wasn`t done in one day, very fine fitment there.

Most 50-60 foot tall spruce......grew up all together and grew tall......I 'spect what they left will all blow ovah within a year or two now they have no protection....then you could use a Stihl to do clean up....I guess...

Yep a local company called "Freshwater Stone" does that work....they made their name doing that kinda fitment using smooth pink granite beach stones that they said were from freshwater washes.......pfffft.....we had them build a fire place/wall back in '85.....it was 26 foot wide and 20 foot tall with a builtin stone wood box that was 3 foot tall. 2 foot deep and 4 foot wide and a 4 foot wide Rumford style firebox all out of beach rocks brought in from Islesboro....same joinery though.....couldn't fit a pencil between them...no mortar showing.....two guys working 8 hrs might one or perhaps two stones in a day..... Work like this is prefabbed in their shop these days but still way impressive non-the-less!!!!

 

[pioneerguy600]

Most 50-60 foot tall spruce......grew up all together and grew tall......I 'spect what they left will all blow ovah within a year or two now they have no protection....then you could use a Stihl to do clean up....I guess...

Yep a local company called "Freshwater Stone" does that work....they made their name doing that kinda fitment using smooth pink granite beach stones that they said were from freshwater washes.......pfffft.....we had them build a fire place/wall back in '85.....it was 26 foot wide and 20 foot tall with a builtin stone wood box that was 3 foot tall. 2 foot deep and 4 foot wide and a 4 foot wide Rumford style firebox all out of beach rocks brought in from Islesboro....same joinery though.....couldn't fit a pencil between them...no mortar showing.....two guys working 8 hrs might one or perhaps two stones in a day..... Work like this is prefabbed in their shop these days but still way impressive non-the-less!!!!

Plenty of air chisel work if done like one of the stone masons I know of, real time consuming making templates, scribeing and chiseling to fit.

 

[Cantdog]

Plenty of air chisel work if done like one of the stone masons I know of, real time consuming making templates, scribeing and chiseling to fit.

Likely air chisels used at the shop but all onsite work still done with striking hammers and chisels by hand for the final fit. They do a lot of very high end jobs like this one plus all sorts of kitchen/bath counters and such. A guy who I worked with for years doing carpentry hurt his back on a carpentry job and was laid up for a while and couldn't work. When he got better he shut down his business and went to work for them doing most all their most important counter patterning and installations. I was talking to him one day and said "Let me get this straight.....you hurt yourself doing carpentry and realized you were getting older and perhaps you could not continue in this business so you quit and went to lug rocks for a living instead...right?" He laffed and said "Yep"....Dave was never one to use more words than necessary...LOL!!

 

[ken morgan]

That stone work is nice, but it will get even better after a couple of years of aging and weathering.... 40 or 50 years from now it will be real bad azz.

 

[Cantdog]

Dave and I built the house that I spoke of the fireplace they built. Wish I had some pics of that but they are all 35mm as that was before the digital era....

 

[Cantdog]

I went on their website looking for pics of that fireplace but had not luck....to old I guess. However I did find another pic that I was involved in.

 

[Cantdog]

That is a pic of a support brace for a second story post and beam master bedroom balcony. Dave ( A different Dave) and I built it in the shop and installed it...then they did the stone work around them. The back side of the brace shown in the pic with the two large holes sat flush on the cement foundation wall...the big turned dowel was cut into 6" pieces that fit snugly in the brace and 2 1/2" holes were rotobroached into the concrete then epoxied in place to hold thing together until they got the stone support installed!!

 

[Cantdog]

Found some pics of that installed too and some of the other stone work in that home. Dave and I also did all the over hang and knee work.......soffit was 5 foot wide.....

 

[ken morgan]

Found some pics of that installed too and some of the other stone work in that home. Dave and I also did all the over hand and knee work.......soffit was 5 foot wide.....

large overhangs like that are great,they keep the sun out in the summer yet allow it to come in the windows in the winter for natural temp control.

 

[Cantdog]

large overhangs like that are great,they keep the sun out in the summer yet allow it to come in the windows in the winter for natural temp control.

Sure does and also adds a great amount of protection to the rest of the building from rain etc.....

 

[Cantdog]

Slack.........it is!!

 

[Cantdog]

THis is not looking good....but stihl quite a ways off.......hopefully it'll steer a bit further east.....