Flat Stoned
Category: Kitchen Sink... Local...
Posted Friday, May 16, 2008 at 10:13 PM [GMT-6]

Remember yesterday's post where I mentioned the delivery of 1 1/2 tons of flagstone? Well, I was wrong.

This morning's delivery turned out to be 2 1/4 tons – 4,500 pounds – of Arizona sandstone, a beautiful reddish color, some of which contains fossilized plant material (I'll try to post a closeup photo of a prime example later). And by 12:30 p.m., MLB and I had laid every piece of it into two walkways and a 50-foot flowerbed border.

Here's a short video of the unloading of the pallet of rock, delivered to our house by the exceptionally courteous manager of Scully Stone, Lan Powers. And a pleasant surprise was the waiving of the normal delivery fee. Good folks out there on the Rankin Highway, if you're in the market for a load of stone.

Wouldn't you love to have one of these little forklifts? Lan told me that the weight of this pallet actually slightly exceeded the rated capacity of the machine, but it got the job done.

I can also guarantee that the weight of the flagstones exceeded the rated capacity of those who carried and laid it, but like that little forklift, we got 'er done. And the most interesting part? We ended up with about one square foot of unused rock. Not too bad for a project that had about the same level of planning as a trip to Starbucks.