The Stone Foundation has anarticle about the projectwith info and photos. The Ventura County Reporter did awriteupwith aslideshow, and the Ventura County Star putvideo footagein theirs. I’ve never been to any of the symposiums, but I know a few people who have, and they speak really hi...
When it’s up to me — though I’m a dry stacker at heart — I usually build steps with mortar, usually by stacking flagstone with a recessed mortar joint. I don’t think that method holds up in areas with heavy freezes and probably not if the steps are going to be used by mules...
Set the cultured stones into the mortar beginning at the bottom of the wall and working upward in rows across the wall length. Place a layer of mortar about half an inch thick on the rear of each stone before placing it onto the wall. Use a slight wiggling motion when placing the stones...
5) mortar flag stone 浆砌片石 1. This method can be used to definite the dimension and strength of abamurus by determining some physical parameters(such as elastic wave velocity and electromagnetic wave velocity etc,) and by the correlation of these physical parameters with mortar flag stones....
Masonry stone structures without mortar have widely spread in many locations. Many examples may be mentioned around the world referring to dry-stone constructions, such as: the "mitata" in Greece as stables in pasturelands; the multi-tiered "baracas" and the "zahurdas" with the form of flat...