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Posted by RMinVa on April 13, 2007 at 17:59:08 from (209.145.80.144):
In Reply to: O/T, Any body have a cheap easy way to cut rocks posted by old on April 13, 2007 at 14:08:04:
I've seen stone buildings and bridges in my area that were built by slaves. Have also seen the tools they used but never seen them used. This rock was cut out of the Staunton river just below Long Island Va. I've seen the notches they made in a line along the rock. It's a slight V shape notch. They would cut pieces of wood and shape the end to fit the notch in the rock and make it a little over size. They would dry the wood stake with heat/fire to shrink the wood. Once dried they would drive the V shap stake in the notches and the river water would swell the wood and the rock would break along the notches. It's some beautiful work. There's one arch bridge over a creek about 75 yards from the river and then there's the bridge that crossed the river. The big bridge has a rock ramp and the pillows is all that's left. Our southern troops burned that bridge when leaving Appomattox. They didn't know the surrender had been signed. They had orders to burn every bridge they crossed. There's also a rock road from the bridge to the houses on the Campbell Co. side which is about 1 mile from the river. Just thought I'd throw in a little history of how it was done back then. And I'm sure different type of rock is done different ways. This is all brown rock and seems to break straight. Only place I've seen rock like this is in the river bed.
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