Papercreters: [papercreters] Re: Artificial boulders & siding stones

Saturday, March 28, 2009

[papercreters] Re: Artificial boulders & siding stones

Hi Bob Yes i was thinking the same thing ,i work for a landscape supply company and they sell like crazy.The first thing my boss said was their not heavy enough,well sand in the mix will fix that.Go for it it should work well.
Clair

In papercreters@yahoogroups.com, "Bob" <criswells.ok@...> wrote:
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> My sons and I have been trying to think of a sideline business for
> papercrete. We came up with the idea of making boulders, you know the
> kind people put into their flower beds, some 3 or 4 ft high, some 1 to 2
> ft high. The local garden centers and rock companies are making a
> killing selling real boulders and it takes a lot of equipment to move
> and deliver them. We were thinking we could form different size holes in
> our sandy soil, shaping it like a boulder, toss some pigment into the
> sides and bottom of the hole and or mix some into the PC mix, fill the
> hole with PC and remove once dryness is obtained. Hopefully the
> resulting boulder would retain some of the sand on its surface and would
> only weigh a small portion of what a real boulder would weigh. The same
> process could be used to make the artificial stone only make them about
> 3 to 4 inches thick and in all shapes and sizes. These would be used
> like veneer siding on regular stick frame houses. Commercial artificial
> stone is made in latex or silicone molds but ours would be made right in
> the sand and no too would ever be alike. Has anyone ever tried anything
> like this before.
>
> Thanks
>
> Bob
>