Splitting Granite (Part 2)

[@philparrott4424]

I enjoy watching you and learning from you. I think I am going to buy the tools and see if I can teach some of the kids on Camiguin Island how to do this. We have plenty of boulders here on this small Pacific Island.

[@workingstoned]

Wow that sounds amazing, you should teach them and I really think they would enjoy that. Thanks for watching 🙏

[@bert26a]

So I live in an area of Canada littered with big stones like this and I want to move a couple of big ones like this with my tractor so I need to break them up in to smaller pieces with feathers and wedges work on a big rock like this?

[@workingstoned]

Yes you can split quite big boulders with wedges 👍 check out my other videos for inspiration 🙏

[@bert26a]

@@workingstoned Ok thank you very much!

[@sevasvideo2952]

А что за инструмент которым вы продуваете отверстия?

[@workingstoned]

That’s an Ryobi RVI18-0 with a 3D printed adaptor for the hose.

[@tomaud]

Nice video. I liked it and subscribed. I have a really hard piece of stone/rock at 40 to 45 cm thick (deep) (1 1/2 ft.) that took a very long time to drill the holes into and a variety of thickness in different places which wedges with feathers can't split even that I followed the instructions seen on videos. Some of the wedges and feathers are completely in and others are barely above the stone surface and the hammer is recoiling. One of the wedges/feathers is jumping out of its hole upon being hit with a hammer. The stone is 1,5 meter long maximum (5 ft.) and 1 meter wide in its widest place (3+ ft.) while in the middle it is 80 cm wide (under 3 ft.). The top of the stone/rock has a "mountainous terrain" so to speak (variety of reliefs) so the holes were drilled at different "heights" of the stone. Are the wedges/feathers too short for this stone/rock? Can a rock/stone of various reliefs be split like this? The wedges are about 10 cm long (4") and I used 5 wedges for the stone's length of 1,5 m( 5 ft.). After drilling 5 holes I sprayed the stone powder/dust with a water stream and then drilled more into watery holes. The stone got wet a little bit. Wrong or right, I don't know. I can post photos or even a short video within the next several hours. Is my boulder a granite? Take a look: postimg.cc/yk6x0srH

[@workingstoned]

First off thanks for watching and subscribing 🙏 When I read your description my first thought is you need more holes. If it’s 150cm long I would probably drill 12-14 holes if the wedges are 10 cm long, and drill minimum 10cm deep, more is better probably 15cm deep. And never wash with water, the rock dust is so fine and heavy it will sink and you will lose depth and that is crucial when splitting. You should also blow out with air. If you don’t have access to a compressor you can do as I do and use a bicycle pump with an extension tube. The reason I bring up the loss of depth is you said a wedge popped up, most of the time when that happens it hits bottom. And by looking at that picture it’s really hard to tell what kind of stone it is. If possible try to drill more holes and re-drill the already drilled ones if you manage to get them loose.

[@marcoantoniotapia2314]

Hola excelente trabajo con las piedras naturales saludos

[@fattyz1]

I live near the granite city in ma and how’d they drill the wedge holes without power tools ?

[@workingstoned]

There are a few ways but basically the same procedure. One common way is using a chisel with a cross/star shaped edge and you hammer away and turn the chisel as you strike it and you keep doing it until you reach your preferred depth. Nowadays it would probably be seen as slave labor because it’s very time consuming. In part of the world it’s still being done by hand, not by slaves, these are tough workers 👍

[@fattyz1]

@@workingstoned thx

[@daghusebye5041]

🤩🤩🤩🤩🏆👍🏻👍🏻👍🏻

[@CryHavoc321]

Snygg split! Hoppas du gjorde något kul av blocket 👍 Var har du köpt dina kilar? Har aldrig sett den modellen förut. 🤔

[@workingstoned]

Tack 🙏 Jag samlar på mig sten till diverse projekt jag hoppas kunna ge mig på 😀 Men denna bumlingen har gett mig väldigt mycket material.

[@CryHavoc321]

@@workingstoned Jag jobbade som stenhuggare i många år och klöv allehanda block och skivor till gravstenar, pelare, samt diverse konsthantverk så detta för en tillbaka till en annan tid. Vi var en liten verkstad utan stora klyvsågar så det blev en hel del från grunden. Tänkte skaffa mig ett gäng mejslar och handsläggor för att se om det fortfarande sitter i ryggraden. Sedan göra lite små projekt. Sen hittade jag dig här. Kul att se! Jag har också en "pun" på stoned i mitt nick, men inte här 😅

[@workingstoned]

Va intressant! Inte ofta jag springer på äkta yrkesmän 🙏 Som jag har förstått det så finns inte mycket verksamheter kvar nuförtiden, de flesta är väl regelrätta konstnärer som gör gravstenar och konstverk. Jag tycker du ska skaffa dig lite verktyg och sätta igång 😀 Själv började det med ett problem som behövde lösas och växte till en form av terapi och hobby. Jag är glad att du hittade till kanalen, och att namnet inte avskräckte 😆 tack för att du titta, och har du tips får du gärna dela med dig av dem 👍

[@mrForestBeard]

Oh man! Every time I watch you tapping the stone and then I see your feet under the stone (10:20)- I shrink :O :O :O ( speaking from experience )

[@workingstoned]

Haha yeah it’s a calculated risk 😉 To be serious, you are right, never stand in the way of the split and keep your feet safe. In this case there were no risk of a violent split therefore I saw no risk of getting my foot stuck. Appreciate your concern, hope you got away ok from your incident 🙏

[@mrForestBeard]

​@@workingstonedYeah, I got off pretty easy, just my toe nail got blue and went off eventually. No bone fracture :D But still feel it pretty clear when trying to recall...

[@workingstoned]

Wow! sound like you were pretty lucky, sometimes you need a little reminder to be careful. I usually strike my hand and that’s my reminder I need to pay a little more attention because that s#¡t really hurts 😀

[@mrForestBeard]

​ @workingstoned My second name is HitMyThumb :D I just recently hit my thumb with back side of hatchet head trying to peg a twig that holds firewood together

[@workingstoned]

damn! haha well you get tougher each time it happens 🙏

[@three-toeddog3354]

Does the chisle hammer have a name?

[@workingstoned]

It can go by Stone Buster, it’s basically a tracer, the hammer version of the hand tool.