Stone Needed

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Mr Hamhead M
Mr Hamhead Feb 9, 2004 15:45:17

As reported in yesterdays Cornish "Sunday Independant" newspaper, the good people at the Eden Project are looking for a lump of granite to be the centrepiece in the new education building they are planning to build.

The paper said they want a stone "about 200 tons in weight, 4 times the size of the Stonehenge ones".

Should be an interesting site getting that into place.

G GordonP
GordonP Feb 9, 2004 18:54:21
Replying to Mr Hamhead

Wouldn't mind delivering that. Neolithic style... :-)

G Grendel
Grendel Feb 9, 2004 21:03:08
Replying to Mr Hamhead

Is a glaciation planned in Cornwall?

G

N nigelswift
nigelswift Feb 9, 2004 23:05:38
Replying to Mr Hamhead

Apart from the possibility of Gordon delivering it, does anyone know how they plan to do it, and where they're getting it from, and why, and what it will cost?
Isn't there quite a bit of granite for people to look at in Cornwall already?

G goffik
goffik Feb 10, 2004 07:08:20
Replying to Mr Hamhead

I saw a program once where they squashed potatoes in the path of an enormous stone to aid the movement. How surprised I was to see how impractical that method would have been all the way from Wales to Stonehenge!

My advice is many, many banana skins. Worked for the Keystone Cops...

G
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M Mr Hamhead
Mr Hamhead Feb 10, 2004 23:01:31
Replying to Mr Hamhead

I have not been able to confirm it yet, but....
Looks like the report should have read 20 tons!
That will save a few spuds then.

Mr H

M Mr Hamhead
Mr Hamhead Feb 13, 2004 08:15:22
Replying to Mr Hamhead

Disregard my message on Wednesday, It does look as if this stone will be 200 tonnes. See

http://www.thisiscornwall.co.uk/displayNode.jsp?nodeId=79373&command=displayContent&sourceNode=78925&contentPK=8744547

Can anybody tell me what size a 1 ton lump of granite would be?