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MO Cabin
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# Posted: 25 Oct 2015 11:55pm
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I am starting to install a pavilion and I would like a cement floor to go under it , but the location eliminates a cement truck, and mixing a hundreds or so cement bags does not sound like fun, but we have tons of rock all around us in the MO Ozarks. I am not sure if it is chert, dolomite, or limestone, but I am wondering if I could put the rocks in a down in a mortar or cement bed then clean up the rock with an diamond grit sander (they are pretty jagged when I find them ). Any suggestions?
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Brknarow
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# Posted: 26 Oct 2015 10:02am
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My dad did something similar with river stone back in the 70's, by tamping the larger stones into a bed of pebbles. It still looks awesome to this day.
Now here's the other shoe to drop. The rock, although it has long since stopped shifting in the gravel bed, isn't completely level. There are ridges, edges, and simply, unevenly natural shapes to the larger stones. When everyone was younger, slimmer, and less infirm, it wasn't a problem, but now it's sort of like walking across a treacherous hip shattering mine field.
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Derby42
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# Posted: 26 Oct 2015 10:48am
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On my cabin we laid field stone directly on the dirt floor. Then I dumped dry quickcrete on it and swept it into the cracks. I took a hand pump sprayer and wet it down. It set up good and was a huge improvement over the dirt floor. It is rough and not very level. I think if you had a flat field stone it would help, a pretty flat rock looks a lot less flat when you put it in a floor.
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MO Cabin
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# Posted: 26 Oct 2015 10:07pm
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The field stone in the Ozarks is not flat either, which is why I am considering cleaning up the edges with a diamond grinder, To try and avoid the treacherous hip shattering mine field.
I was planning on finding a lot of little stone the for the base layer, then inch minus follow by the limestone set in place with mortar. Then hitting it with the diamond grinder. It is good to hear that other people have tried the same idea, which means I can not be too far off.
The pic was a big help.
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Rowjr
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# Posted: 6 Nov 2015 04:52pm
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Got to be selective...Flat is good....
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MO Cabin
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# Posted: 6 Nov 2015 08:41pm
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I have been doing a lot of looking around on the interweb and I think I can try to split the rocks we have here. There are not many flat ones, but I may be able to split them using a rock wedges and shims.
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Derby42
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# Posted: 8 Nov 2015 08:48pm
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I would like to hear your results and the types of stone you attempted to split.
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