June 27th Update -Hard Hot Work
I am writing this paragraph on Tuesday evening after an exhausing day. It got up to 34 in the shade today
(that's over 90 Farenheit) with about 80% humidity and I worked outside for about 11 hours. And some of it was
HEAVY work because the flagstone came this afternoon. The delivery truck was outfitted with a crane which was used to set two very heavy pallets down on my driveway. Here is a photo showing what four tons of flagstone looks like.
I am not positive, but I think that the rock is shale.
I moved about 30 stones to the back, placed thjem beside the patio and washed them with the power washer. There are a few stones which I think weigh close to 150 pounds. The stones are more varied in colour, thickness, and size than I expected them to be. The sample bunch (about 50 stones) that were layed out at the place I bought the flagstone were not as varied. The photo below illustrates some of the variety:
I worked at laying flagstones for somewhat over an hour and only managed to lay six (seen in the bottom left of the photo to the left above). This is going to take a LONGGGG time.
Today, we had an engagement in the afternoon and, what with other tasks, I only spent about three hours laying flagstone. I am now doing a bit of cutting which makes it easier to get stones that will fit and that makes things go a little faster. Today I put down 24 stones in three hours. That’s up to 8 an hour from 6 yesterday. I might eventually get up to about 10 an hour but I expect that will be the fastest that I can
(and want to) go at this. The weather was just as hot and humid. It is supposed to cool down tomorrow, but Isla and Ethan will be here during the day and we are having company in the evening so I probably won’t get much work done. Here is a photo taken at the end of today’s work: