And what country can preserve its liberties if their rulers are not warned from time to time that their people preserve the spirit of resistance? Let them take arms. The remedy is to set them right as to facts, pardon and pacify them. What signify a few lives lost in a century or two? The tree of liberty must be refreshed from time to time with the blood of patriots and tyrants.
Water weighs 60lbs per cubic foot and most stone is 2.5 times denser at 150lbs/cubic foot. If the posts are 2ft high, 1ft wide and 6 inches thick each would be 150lbs. The lintel at 4ft long, 1-1/2ft wide and 6 inches thick would be 450lbs. That's my WAG (Wild-A$$ed Guess) anyways. Someone needs to chisel in some Egyptian hieroglyphs and then tell their guests "oh, we found the rocks in the back yard". Al_in_Ottawa
If those rocks weigh a couple tons then I'm superman because I built a rock wall in 2019 without a backhoe or other mechanical lifting equipment after reading this book the winter before https://www.abebooks.com/first-edition/Building-Stone-McRaven-Charles-Lippincott-Crowell/30135763718/bd As a general rule a milk crate sized rock is 150lbs as milk crates are 13" x 13" x 11" which is a bit bigger than a cubic foot. Al_in_Ottawa
Someone built a house at Stonehenge.
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ReplyDeleteI think that’s Nigel Tufnel’s house.
ReplyDeleteWater weighs 60lbs per cubic foot and most stone is 2.5 times denser at 150lbs/cubic foot. If the posts are 2ft high, 1ft wide and 6 inches thick each would be 150lbs. The lintel at 4ft long, 1-1/2ft wide and 6 inches thick would be 450lbs.
ReplyDeleteThat's my WAG (Wild-A$$ed Guess) anyways.
Someone needs to chisel in some Egyptian hieroglyphs and then tell their guests "oh, we found the rocks in the back yard".
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Wait wut? 150lbs? Try a couple tons probably.
DeleteIf those rocks weigh a couple tons then I'm superman because I built a rock wall in 2019 without a backhoe or other mechanical lifting equipment after reading this book the winter before
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As a general rule a milk crate sized rock is 150lbs as milk crates are 13" x 13" x 11" which is a bit bigger than a cubic foot.
Al_in_Ottawa
It's what's under the floor I'm wondering about.
ReplyDeleteWay less than the ones at Stonehenge, that's for sure. Maybe Spinal Tap had this fireplace built for them. LOL
ReplyDeleteI looked it up. 3 stones is 42 pounds.
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DeleteAre they imperial or metric stones??
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