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RE: TIGER SANDSTONE QUARRY. How we MINE STONE and how we LOAD it into the TRUCK
@johnstone, very interesting video. But isn't it possible to use machines? Or you don't need it, or are the mschines very expensive?
Hello @cryptospa, the reason we don't use machines is that they break the stone, so that it become very small pieces, of course several times in season we use heavy excavators to crash the mountain and to take weak stone garbage to the side. But most of the work on stone mining and putting stone on pallets are still done by people, because this is the only way to produce quality natural stone product.
I never thought about that. I thought all those could be done with diamond saws or some sort of mechanized contraptions. Dang, I learned something today.
Thank you for your comment @enforcer48. Yes for some type of stones as granite or marble in other areas they use those diamond saws and excavators, but here in our region we have sandstone with each layer of stone underlying on different angle to the ground surface, so it is impossible to use any machinery equipment because you have to think how to get every single stone out of the mountain layer and you have to look for the best crack in that mountain to apply wedge into it and then hit the wedge with your hammer with a certain amount of power to have the best result in this very stone size. So taking every single stone is hard though quite creative job to do.
@johnstone, thank you for the answer! Very interesting!
Thank you for watching it, I just included you in my Hello list, because I consider you @cryptospa being my big steemit friend!
@johnstone, thank you!