I've done this a few times where I find a GLO stone broken, so I take it home to repair it. This past Friday we dug up a GLO stone that was broken because one of my predecessors in 1989 decided to use a jackhammer drill on it so he could stick a capped rebar in it. Even the hard quartzite stones usually shatter under that type of abuse.
So we dig out the pieces of the stone, discard the rebar, and also pick up pieces of a broken flat limestone that a County Surveyor placed under the GLO stone in the 1880's. There was a lot of moving of corners back then, so the County Surveyor started placing other stones beneath them.
This weekend I used Liquid Nails, Durhams Rock Hard Water Putty, and silicone to put the stones back together. Anyway, I was able to fix what someone else destroyed and preserve the 156-year-old stone.
The final remonumentation consists of a 3/4"x30 rebar at the botton, the flat limestone with a MAG nail in top, the original GLO stone with a MAG nail in top, and a 1"x24" iron pipe with 2" aluminum cap.
GREAT WORK!!!
Great job!
very impressive! always like your posts!
Always interesting and perfectly documented!
great post.
Christof.
Very cool....that sketch is so much better than this one:
Nicely done.
A real example of following and perpetuating the footsteps.
The surveyors who will follow your work are very lucky.
Great stuff, always very interesting. Gotta love that Dachshund inspecting your work!:dog:
Ain't that the truth...
J,
I wish I could reach through this computer and shake your hand for doing this the RIGHT WAY. To many PLS's think they should set their pretty brass caps and throw all the evidence of history off into the ditch.
Thanks for sharing the photos.
Making big ones out of little ones…
… as opposed to making little ones out of big ones
Nice concept Jerry. Good on you.