Making a Granite Trough
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- Опубликовано: 28 авг 2024
- Plug and feather, also known as plugs and wedges, feather and wedges, wedges and shims and feather and tare refers to a technique and a three-piece tool set used to split stone. Each set consists of a metal wedge (the plug), and two shims (the feathers). The feathers are wide at the bottom, and tapered and curved at the top. When the two feathers are placed on either side of the plug, the combined width of the set is the same at both ends. Variations of the plug and feather method have been used since ancient Egyptian times. With this simple mechanical technique, the stone was first measured and marked. Bronze plugs and feathers were then driven into grooves which had been previously cut with a chisel and mallet.This was the most common method used by the Egyptians for quarrying limestone and sandstone. Evidence of this method for cutting obelisks in the quarries of Aswan can clearly be seen. The technique was also used by the Romans.
On Dartmoor, Devon, England, the process is known as feather and tare and it was used from around 1800 to split the large blocks of granite found on the ground there. It was, for instance, used to make the rails for the Haytor Granite Tramway in 1820.
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Great work !! This things will be there for 1000 years and 1000 years after... we have lots of those in Italy too
MADE A FEW STONE TROUGH IN MY TIME THE MAN THAT CARVED THAT TROUGH IS A GENIUS THE GRANITE HE IS WORKING IS AVERY HARD STONE MADE TO LAST A LIFE TIME EDDIE PURCELL
I think they forgot to add a drain hole. Old feed troughs where I am from (Scottish borders) have drain holes in them. They are not much good if they are full of water.
Fantastic! Thank you. I really appreciate my mundane laborious job now.
great stuff often made a stone trough in Wicklow granite hard game
300 years later "what the hell is this for?"
Great job, but wonder how long their ears and eyes would last?
Lovely trough...bet it cost £5000!!
did they bother to keep the rain out?
No. I'm a postman, but always wanted to be a stone mason and build myself a castle.
I wonder what a swimming pool made like this would cost... first you'd have to find a large enough slab of granite
"gonna be there for decades"? I'd say millennia
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Do you do this work for a living?
Ben.