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Subject:	Re: ok, ok, so brownstone peels off if you lay it with the face outwards...
From:	Ruth Barton <[log in to unmask]>
Reply To:	B-P Golden Oldies: "The listserv troubled by a bad conscience and a good memory."" <[log in to unmask]>
Date:	Fri, 4 Aug 2006 08:51:19 -0700
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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,
[log in to unmask] writes:

....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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Ruth Barton
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Dummerston, VT

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