My sons and I have been thinking of a sideline business, making boulders & artificial stone. The large boulders would be for gardens and the artificial stone would be for applying like siding, over a metal mesh attached to the side of a regular frame home. Our soils in this part of Oklahoma range from sandy with no clay, to clay with no sand. I was thinking instead of making latex or silicone molds for either (which is the traditional method for artificial stone), we would just dig deep holes in the sandy soil shaping the hole like different types of garden (flower bed type) boulders, out here the rock companies are getting rich selling those large boulders and it takes a lot of equipment to move and deliver them, papercrete boulders would only weigh a fraction of an actual boulder and yet if it was formed in a sand hole I think it would retain some of the sand for its finish and pigments could be tossed either into the hole before pouring in the papercrete or poured into the papercrete mix. The same process could be used for the artificial stones only make them about 3 to 4 inches thick and in all different sizes and shapes. The commercial artificial stone is quite expensive and the selling point is its light weight. Has anyone tried a technique similar to this? Thanks Bob
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