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Another load of Potatoes!!

Posted by iancc (My Page) on
Wed, Aug 31, 05 at 19:30

Another load of Potatoes!!

this was a scene out of the movie deliverance – as the story goes!

http://www.sunderland.ca/img_0852aa.jpg

-Seen remenants of stone from roadside (Limestone Caprock)
-Thought I would investigate – No Tresspassing signs and large dogs!!!
-Found a phone # - and called
-Found a reasurring voice on the other end – said might sell to you if your worthy
-Arranged visit (wore flak jacket in case)
-Real nice stone, proprioters well okay for now – they’r sitting on a landscape gold mine.
-Success they will sell to me because I am a hack (landscape grunt)
-Arrange truck and phone to explain not to shoot I come with $$
-DE-BRIEF the trucker to forget about Quarry wearabouts or he will suffer the my wrath
-truck gets loaded all fine and landed at jobsite

MORAL OF THE STORY

If you want premium stone – eliminate the middleman – kiss up to the red neck quarry owners – arrange your own truck – and last but not least pay 50 % of list

Chears

~ian


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RE: Another load of Potatoes!!

what a find !!!!!!!!!!
I'm so totalllllllly envious.
Great looking rock.

Don't disappoint me Ian with it's final outcome.
I can't wait to see how you use this stone .

gorgeous.


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RE: Another load of Potatoes!!

Hey Mitch

Will be using these stones to construct 2 separate staircases+transitions up from the lake, Going to start getting cold up here in the North so I will post some pic's once completed.

PS I ordered that stone sealer you mentioned in an earlier post (ProSoCo)

thanks for the lead
~ian


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RE: Another load of Potatoes!!

Can't wait to see the pics. We just had 23 Ton of flagstone delivered, arranged our own delivery with the quarry owners and paid 1/2 of cost locally. I spend my mornings digging out sod, need to see your pics so I can get some inspiration to continue projects.


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RE: Another load of Potatoes!!

Ian, congratulations on that superior load of potatoes! They are drop-dead gorgeous. We've never met a rock we didn't like. ;-)

Good luck with getting your project done before the snow flies, time grows short up here too. Karen


 
 

 

 


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