Up this way we get better quality syrup with Maple sap. Ruth
At 12:33 AM -0400 8/4/06, [log in to unmask] wrote:
In a message dated 8/3/2006 11:28:47 P.M. Eastern Standard Time,
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....but, for the typical 4" deep block used on the facades of brownstones
(perhaps 24" x 36" wide) wouldn't orienting the grain crossways make for a
block to weak to transport?
Christopher
Nah. We're talking fairly freshly cut (and still somewhat wet with quarry
sap) stone when it was first transported, and it was probably better
consolidated then, with the bedding planes having less effect.
Or some shit like that.
Ralph
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