So today I watched a guy unclog road drains, a woman cut her grass with a scythe and now a guy splitting granite with a hammer.. surprisingly all rather satisfying 😀👍
I love how each wedge produces a different pitch when struck. Quite musical. I also like the philosophical idea of how a 2 pound hammer splits the 26k lb boulder.
Watching this in Rockport, Massachusetts. Old stone is everywhere in this town, bearing the marks of these same tools. The granite foundation blocks on the front of the old houses don’t have those marks because they were dressed to remove them and make them not look ‘cheap’, but often the ones on the sides and back still had the vestiges of the holes.
Lovely to see this still being done. In a "former life" I used to split large lumps of stone using the same method (called Plug and Feathers here in the UK). Something that I was a little surprised to see here was that the quarry block was apparently dumped flat on the ground - I always liked to put a hefty skid directly under the fracture line, which helped direct the split and also as the fracture starts to open, the weight of the stone works with you, not against. Obviously you also need to add a couple of smaller skids either side, as well, as you don't want a couple of tons of stone rolling over onto you! It also meant that after the stone was split, you don't have the issue of separating the two halves, but can get slings around them more easily. Thanks for posting this, it brought back a lot of memories!
@@at7388 Nothing as large as this, the largest ones I worked on were 5 tonnes as that was the capacity of the crane for unloading. The stones were also softer than granite, mostly Boles Hill, Wattscliff-Lilac, Forest of Dean, Grinshill, Stanton Moor, Hollington, etc sand/gritstones, but also various of the Bath and Guiting ooliic limestones. My primary cut saw was only an ancient Anderson Grice circular saw that could cut 18" in the bed, so splitting quarry blocks by hand was fairly necessary. The firm I worked for never advanced as far as buying a frame saw, sadly. We didn't work with granite, slate or marble very much, but on the occasions we did they were bought as slabs or sawn six sides.
Amazing how force and patience can split a boulder. Just takes time and work. Not as fast as a rock saw but not near as expensive. Suggestion: take the wedges to a blacksmith and ask him to grind the mushroomed tops off the wedges. Mushroomed wedges can split off at high speed and injure people. This applies to all struck tools. Also have the Smith drill small holes in the tops of the wedges and connect them together with a small chain. That will keep them together after the rock splits and the feathers drop to the ground. Some always go missing. This saves the search time.
Back in the Roman age they had a similar method, carving small holes and then placing a dry wood and add water, Once the wood has expanded it would split the rock in two!
The deer isle peninsula is one of the most beautiful places in America. And I love that there are still real Maine men with Maine accents practicing the traditional trades.
An ancient work at hours of technology will always be a pleasant moment of patience, resources and talent, thank you for sharing! I guess I'm not the only envious of your activities;) Good continuation man!
The stone whisperer, I´m a German Mason Master and I´m thrilled seeing this. The elder generations knew their stuff pretty well, and work was done when work was done. Not everything was worse in the old times.
more amazing is a 1 pound hand made drill can do that gotta love midieval building and good ol elbow grease but nowadays we got mechanical drills so score!
Now imagine to do that without any drill like the workers of my country do in blue granite, they cut stones even bigger then those ones here in Portugal , still use that way today ...
Really makes me miss home, I grew up in Maine but I'm far away for college. I almost clicked out of the video but then I heard his accent and had to watch the entire video.
I could live in this kind of area with content, the sound of the wind brushing tress and grass, the swaying of leaves, the echos of noise from amplitude of living so vibrant and lively, shadows made by sunlight making nostalgic view as it tries to reach the ground. So peaceful and so alive.
The beauty of having & doing a job you love. This artisan is a satisfied, happy man I think. I always look to friends & others who adore their "job" & have a natural affinity for it. I had no clue how this was done but I know I assumed huge machinery was involved. Amazing.
Archimedes: Give me a lever long enough and a fulcrum and I can move the earth. Man in vid: Give me unlimited wedges and a hammer and I can split the earth... but it will take a while....
Thanks for this. I grew up splitting and sawing granite(other rock). I miss the sound of the rock splitting. The satisfaction of that final ping when the feathers loosen. No one does real masonry anymore.
just, watch this with low volume, on your tablet before you sleep.. works like a charm.. I mean, watching this excessive time patiently spent to hammer a rock split open and the joy of inspecting cracks.. I need such a life.. ( Edit: I also request a 10 hour version of this, preferably with more stones split.. in the same ambient scenery though.. please! )
I understand. What's more, is you are correct in your saying so. However, can you imagine being not certain, pertaining to something as simple as self? Think about what someone the likes of Bruce Jenner is navigating through publicly, & really put that shoe on for a few steps & then tell me the caliber of problems currently being dealt with are as bad as they often appear...
+June Eight If you think of this in such a simply way maybe you'll need such a life. But imagine this technique used by Aborigines thousands of years ago. They could build megalithic structures without using any source of power but the human body...
+Brenda Saller There are some egyptian hyroglyphs that seem to indicate electrical power, but not for cutting stone, and I'm sure if you had 1000's of people working for millenia, even sticks and stones would eventually make a scratch in granite.
Interesting video and patient work, which shows the main principle of splitting rocks, although a bigger mallet and fewer holes also would do the job. I have done a lot of drilling and splitting, so I know the hard work that goes in it. Are the feathers greased? They look dry. With such a big, carefully cut and probably expensive piece of granite, and then omit to drill a few more vertical holes in its short ends as well..? Then the crack would continue right down the middle instead of slanting. But hats off to Dennis for sharing a careful approach!
I went to India in the early 80’s to help build a house for a mission group. This is how they cut the stones for the foundation. Very skilled as each stone was the same size. Very cool.
2000 years from now we'll have people arguing, "There's no way they could have split rocks like this with a hammer and chisel, they would have had to use lasers!"
But he doesn't make it perfectly smooth, also how did he get the holes in the granite to begin with, and quarry the stone? I'd also like to see him move one that's 10-100x heavier than that one for 100 miles. Also, the Egyptians didn't have steel spikes like this, they had copper and wood which aren't nearly as hard
@WOW WOW I cannot count the amount of times I have been referred to this laughable attempt at recreating the stunning work of the ancients. First of all, there has never been a bronze saw of that size found in Egypt, and second of all, are you really applying this 4mm/hour technique to the literally millions of stones used for the great pyramid? Some weighing up to 80 tons? OR the blocks in the Serrapeum at Saqqara?
THIS man is a homesteader and built his own home from his own land. He also runs a hostel. This video was made because he was so happy to be splitting his own rock by himself for the first time (as he clearly said). It wasn't designed to be a "teaching" video. Give so credit where it is due, very few could or would chose his lifestyle. Then again, HE has no mortgage and built his home in a couple years, with his own trees he milled himself....and it is GORGEOUS. No water bill, no electric bill (yes he has electricity, it is solar) and grows a years worth of food every summer. He runs his hostel 5 months out of the year and produces enough income to enjoy the rest of the year. I love to be as smart as this man...never know what this Country's' future holds.
if you are referring to the pyramids and the Egyptians theres a huge problem, they didnt have steel, thats the real question how they made it with wooden tools or brass only? in modern terms is like creating and moving a huge titanium sculpture with ropes and steel files only.
Luis Fernando That's not really the same equivalent. It's quite well known how the stone for the pyramids was quarried and cut. Granite was also cut using a few methods, one effective one was copper but expensive for them because of imports. However there is many many pyramids all leading upto the famous ones, it shows the evolution of their building techniques including their failed ones where the foundation gave out, a chamber collapses etc The internal ramp theory seems the most plausible and was also seen in another earlier step pyramid built, the rock cutting was tedious but again the tools on site, and incomplete ones show their methods. For instance the obelisks that never quite made it out the ground shows they used rock hammers to remove material all around, however abandoned one that was cracked. Unlike what most documentaries say they are not a big mystery, experts know there is several ways they could have been done, especially after seeing the many before them and observed the learning. The only mystery is which of the plausible methods was used, which isn't totally decided.
Kerbd Listen to John F. Kennedy's speeches if you want to hear someone similar. Boston or New Englanders have that accent. I guess you're too young to remember JFK. 😎 👍
I liked it. My people were Babbidges from Deer Isle. I didn't know that when I lived in Bowdoinham. Would have liked to have gone there. Your video is the first I have seen of the place. Thank You for sharing.
My great-grandfather worked at, and eventually managed, the Wildcat granite quarry at the end of Long Cove in Tenants Harbor, Maine, just down the coast from you.
I noticed you don't have flat thumbs, you must be safety conscious! lol I can see where you have to use patience with this procedure, it would be very easy to ruin a slab and I know it's expensive.
After all that, I'm actually kinda disappointed that they didn't show the rock actually coming apart. Weebl was right, though, this looks like a very satisfying job.
This guy doing the wrong way.... The Rock is very heavy, the correct way would be to position the Rock in a slope or elevate the opposite side of the crack with wood underneath. The way he is trying, the nails cause the crack but also need to push the other half of the Rock. Gravity could do this easily.
+Famous Corn Star Well, consider the fact that the invention of the wedge is one huge step for humankind. From that perspective this becomes quite educational. ;)
My parents use the same method to get me out of the computer chair I was stuck in. It worked by I realised that my body couldn't stand up. Any way I blame feminist for this because they created unrealistic expectations for men. ~Snoop Doge, basement prodigy.
to cut a stone my grandfather used dynamite, at least it was quick to do the job, he would drill holes in the rock and then insert dynamite and fire them and the stone was cut
+Anna Ciavarella Dynamite is exactly how they do it in quarries. But for splitting smaller blocks like this one it is too expensive. Usually special clay is used to do that as far as I am concerned. They fill the drilled holes with this clay and it expands over time splitting the rock.
Egyptians need to quarry one out, refine, adjust, measured, lifted, transport to destination, lifted again, place, and adjust again for each block. They have to have one after another every 5 minutes, 24 hours a day, 7 days a week for 20 years straight to built the pyramid. Can’t see how that’s possible. Incredible
Not trying to be a hater but it was a little longer than 20 years. Those stones only way about 2,500 a piece. I know the history channel blows it out of proportion like nobody could do it but no it is completely possible. Look up the temples of Balbek. That's something mysterious. Wait till you here the weight.
I live less than an hour and a half east of here, also on the coast. Family has been here for over 250 years. I assure you there are many smart, skilled craftsmen in Maine.
Would this kind of music be considered rock or metal?
Yes.
Duh
"Light Metal" and not the heavy metal.
It's a split of rock by metal instrument...
@@barcadoubletreblesixtuple4020 bam
So today I watched a guy unclog road drains, a woman cut her grass with a scythe and now a guy splitting granite with a hammer.. surprisingly all rather satisfying 😀👍
Just watched one of the scythe videos myself
Lmfao you saw that scythe video too ? 🤣💯👌🏼
Coming from the scythe vid
I’m not alone!
Coming from sythe vid!!!!
I love how each wedge produces a different pitch when struck. Quite musical. I also like the philosophical idea of how a 2 pound hammer splits the 26k lb boulder.
Water cuts through stone not by strength. Rather, its persistence.
Argenis Esparza People who go around saying “Orange man bad” don’t see the irony.
It's not a Boulder
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the hammer didnt split the boulder, the hammer drove in the wedges into the boulder which split it
Watching this in Rockport, Massachusetts. Old stone is everywhere in this town, bearing the marks of these same tools. The granite foundation blocks on the front of the old houses don’t have those marks because they were dressed to remove them and make them not look ‘cheap’, but often the ones on the sides and back still had the vestiges of the holes.
I watched this 7 years ago and thought I'd just watch it again just incase I missed anything.
In the more recent viewing - he cracks the rock this time.
m4ksta haha...
I’m scrolling down to see if I made any wise a$$ comments nearly a decade ago.
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1.3 thousand people disliked this....what is it about a man cutting granite that pissed off so many people?
lol maybe its because that guys was a goober XD
also having h8rs is a sign of success.
Maybe they are rock right activists or something
Yeah like was it classified or some?
Boring af
It starts at exactly 3:38 where he lost even me... Dis no cool bro :|. And 1.8k ppl raged ;)
This guys local accent is awesome.
Crickets in the background a close 2nd.
👍👍
Lovely to see this still being done. In a "former life" I used to split large lumps of stone using the same method (called Plug and Feathers here in the UK). Something that I was a little surprised to see here was that the quarry block was apparently dumped flat on the ground - I always liked to put a hefty skid directly under the fracture line, which helped direct the split and also as the fracture starts to open, the weight of the stone works with you, not against. Obviously you also need to add a couple of smaller skids either side, as well, as you don't want a couple of tons of stone rolling over onto you! It also meant that after the stone was split, you don't have the issue of separating the two halves, but can get slings around them more easily. Thanks for posting this, it brought back a lot of memories!
@@at7388 Nothing as large as this, the largest ones I worked on were 5 tonnes as that was the capacity of the crane for unloading. The stones were also softer than granite, mostly Boles Hill, Wattscliff-Lilac, Forest of Dean, Grinshill, Stanton Moor, Hollington, etc sand/gritstones, but also various of the Bath and Guiting ooliic limestones. My primary cut saw was only an ancient Anderson Grice circular saw that could cut 18" in the bed, so splitting quarry blocks by hand was fairly necessary. The firm I worked for never advanced as far as buying a frame saw, sadly. We didn't work with granite, slate or marble very much, but on the occasions we did they were bought as slabs or sawn six sides.
@@at7388 The arrived as quarry blocks, split or cut using wires/chains into rough cubes.
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"Well, it's two pieces of rock, now what do we do?"
lmfao this guy's great
Hydraulic wedge.
That was a very funny way to end the video.
Split it again, and again 19 more times. then his plan for 20 is had.
Well I don’t know
I changed my mind, let's glue it back together!
**ting** **smack**
**ting** **smack**
**ting** **smack**
**ting** **smack**
**ting** **smack**
**ting** **smack**
**ting** **smack**
oh boy
stop
You are good at making captions
i think you got it backward...i think it's smack-ting, smack-ting...
Hmm, then that first *smack* *donk*
"Well its two pieces of rock; now what do we do?"- best quote.
What a great Downeast Maniac character. Thnks for getting this on film
why so many dislikes? its just a nice guy doing a peacefull job
he looks so happy... i want that
we are taking so many things in life for granite.
Now that's a rock solid pun.
granite you were born in a field so I'll spar you your rightly deserved pun ishment of breaking rock in the hot sun!!
hahah good one
ha! Dad jokes.
how long you being waiting to say that :)
Amazing how force and patience can split a boulder. Just takes time and work. Not as fast as a rock saw but not near as expensive.
Suggestion: take the wedges to a blacksmith and ask him to grind the mushroomed tops off the wedges. Mushroomed wedges can split off at high speed and injure people. This applies to all struck tools. Also have the Smith drill small holes in the tops of the wedges and connect them together with a small chain. That will keep them together after the rock splits and the feathers drop to the ground. Some always go missing. This saves the search time.
I Just watched a video of a man hammering a rock, what is my life coming to?
Tomas Colquhoun The "first guy to pound a wedge into a crack" was Adam assuming no one wrote down who was the first porn actor.
tinyminiguy LOL
IKR!?
At least you're not alone! I'm hurtling down that chasm right beside you!! \:o/
You are learning something. The power of a wedge.
Sounds like you've hit rock bottom.
The sound is amazing!!!!
"How egyptians cutted perfectly rocks those talls and pounds? Impossible!" Impossible is The History Channel mock alot of people.
Great job, but get rid of that steel handled hammer or your hands will soon be as arthritic as mine ... wood handles are the best.
+Mike Freeman Old wives tale at best; Rittershock does not contribute to arthritis. Will give you tennis elbow however.
Aint rubber better?
Naah I use the estwing hammers to strike chisels they work well
@@christopherfitch7705 estwings are very high quality
I'd be standing on top with a pneumatic hammer, wtf?
Back in the Roman age they had a similar method, carving small holes and then placing a dry wood and add water, Once the wood has expanded it would split the rock in two!
line at the end is priceless
Famous Maine one-liners gotta lovem!
+Granny Soup Ladle wtf
priceless
priceless
HeavenHammer - You wouldn't understand little boy.
You cantell this guy loves what he's doing. Gotta love that!
I love the sounds
The deer isle peninsula is one of the most beautiful places in America. And I love that there are still real Maine men with Maine accents practicing the traditional trades.
An ancient work at hours of technology will always be a pleasant moment of patience, resources and talent, thank you for sharing!
I guess I'm not the only envious of your activities;)
Good continuation man!
The changes in pitch is really obvious in some parts. Really cool
The hammer striking the wedges sounds like the background of a Tom Waits song.
hammering rail road spikes - like the chain gang
@Umbra Mortis How about Goin' Out West?
The stone whisperer, I´m a German Mason Master and I´m thrilled seeing this.
The elder generations knew their stuff pretty well, and work was done when work was done.
Not everything was worse in the old times.
You need so oxen to help move the two pieces. cool work
He sounds the way I imagine every main character in any Stephen King Novel I've ever read.
Yeah he seems to be about as local as you can get around here
I love the caveman logic at the end. "TWO ROCKS. NOW WUT!?"
Amazing how that 2-pound hammer could make those holes for the wedges.
more amazing is a 1 pound hand made drill can do that gotta love midieval building and good ol elbow grease but nowadays we got mechanical drills so score!
A hammer and sheer willpower xD
Those holes were drilled.
Now imagine to do that without any drill like the workers of my country do in blue granite, they cut stones even bigger then those ones here in Portugal , still use that way today ...
We dont drill holes here in Portugal even in blue Granite .
Really makes me miss home, I grew up in Maine but I'm far away for college. I almost clicked out of the video but then I heard his accent and had to watch the entire video.
I could live in this kind of area with content, the sound of the wind brushing tress and grass, the swaying of leaves, the echos of noise from amplitude of living so vibrant and lively, shadows made by sunlight making nostalgic view as it tries to reach the ground. So peaceful and so alive.
Pharaoh will be pleased.
Did this man build the pyramids in Egypt?
+oisiaa Not likely. He's certainly not that old. Plus he lives in Maine, if you had paid attention.
+john papple Hahaha, three sarcastic guys, running circles around each other! I want in!
+oisiaa Yes, he and Ben Carson built them to store grain...
+UraniumMan Good joke. I like you.
no, but hi looked how this doeing..))
this is soothing from some reason :) the sound is kinda pleasing
I was thinking the same thing = )
ASMR.
You are a musician😀
The beauty of having & doing a job you love. This artisan is a satisfied, happy man I think. I always look to friends & others who adore their "job" & have a natural affinity for it. I had no clue how this was done but I know I assumed huge machinery was involved. Amazing.
Archimedes: Give me a lever long enough and a fulcrum and I can move the earth.
Man in vid: Give me unlimited wedges and a hammer and I can split the earth... but it will take a while....
All I can imagine is this thing splitting in half while he bangs the hammer and falling over crushing his legs
That was one of my concerns as well. There are two types o people in this world. Those who learn from their mistakes, and those who learn from others.
@@thomaswilliams6646 gggg
It was so relaxing to watch
I will never take this kind of work for granite again
Thanks for this. I grew up splitting and sawing granite(other rock). I miss the sound of the rock splitting. The satisfaction of that final ping when the feathers loosen. No one does real masonry anymore.
Someone should make a remix using the sounds each hit makes.
thats a great idea
His "Prettay" and "Oh boy!" Would mix in well too. :P
just, watch this with low volume, on your tablet before you sleep.. works like a charm.. I mean, watching this excessive time patiently spent to hammer a rock split open and the joy of inspecting cracks.. I need such a life..
( Edit: I also request a 10 hour version of this, preferably with more stones split.. in the same ambient scenery though.. please! )
I understand. What's more, is you are correct in your saying so. However, can you imagine being not certain, pertaining to something as simple as self? Think about what someone the likes of Bruce Jenner is navigating through publicly, & really put that shoe on for a few steps & then tell me the caliber of problems currently being dealt with are as bad as they often appear...
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+Liam Duff :-X:'(.n
+June Eight If you think of this in such a simply way maybe you'll need such a life. But imagine this technique used by Aborigines thousands of years ago. They could build megalithic structures without using any source of power but the human body...
+Brenda Saller There are some egyptian hyroglyphs that seem to indicate electrical power, but not for cutting stone, and I'm sure if you had 1000's of people working for millenia, even sticks and stones would eventually make a scratch in granite.
What an awesome movie and very educational. Hard to figure
how anyone could give a thumb down.
You are one of those guys that everybody needs to know! As in, "How did you get that done?" "Oh, I know a guy!" Beautiful demonstration!
Interesting video and patient work, which shows the main principle of splitting rocks, although a bigger mallet and fewer holes also would do the job. I have done a lot of drilling and splitting, so I know the hard work that goes in it. Are the feathers greased? They look dry. With such a big, carefully cut and probably expensive piece of granite, and then omit to drill a few more vertical holes in its short ends as well..? Then the crack would continue right down the middle instead of slanting. But hats off to Dennis for sharing a careful approach!
its so musical, its wonderful
I love this clip, I watch it when I'm stressed
Love this guys attitude!
This is the kind of person who never gets bored.
I went to India in the early 80’s to help build a house for a mission group. This is how they cut the stones for the foundation. Very skilled as each stone was the same size. Very cool.
im so high right now
2000 years from now we'll have people arguing, "There's no way they could have split rocks like this with a hammer and chisel, they would have had to use lasers!"
conspiracy theory!!!
I’m pretty sure we are already in that argument!
You see himself split a rock by cracking it, not straight Lazer cut like what they found
But he doesn't make it perfectly smooth, also how did he get the holes in the granite to begin with, and quarry the stone? I'd also like to see him move one that's 10-100x heavier than that one for 100 miles. Also, the Egyptians didn't have steel spikes like this, they had copper and wood which aren't nearly as hard
@WOW WOW I cannot count the amount of times I have been referred to this laughable attempt at recreating the stunning work of the ancients. First of all, there has never been a bronze saw of that size found in Egypt, and second of all, are you really applying this 4mm/hour technique to the literally millions of stones used for the great pyramid? Some weighing up to 80 tons? OR the blocks in the Serrapeum at Saqqara?
you play a beautiful rock whats the name of the song?
let there be rock...
Im pretty sure its from the rolling stones
Granite by Joe
Never thought I would learn how these slabs are created but it is an art. The unique sounds from each wedge are nature speaking to us. Or crying.
Excellent job.
I have a feeling that this guy keeps Atlantis off the maps and also keeps the Martians under wraps.
Did he hold back the electric car and did he make steve gutenberg a star?
Sssshhhhut uuuuppp!
THIS man is a homesteader and built his own home from his own land. He also runs a hostel. This video was made because he was so happy to be splitting his own rock by himself for the first time (as he clearly said). It wasn't designed to be a "teaching" video. Give so credit where it is due, very few could or would chose his lifestyle. Then again, HE has no mortgage and built his home in a couple years, with his own trees he milled himself....and it is GORGEOUS. No water bill, no electric bill (yes he has electricity, it is solar) and grows a years worth of food every summer. He runs his hostel 5 months out of the year and produces enough income to enjoy the rest of the year. I love to be as smart as this man...never know what this Country's' future holds.
probably aliens gave him that ultra high tech....
if you are referring to the pyramids and the Egyptians theres a huge problem, they didnt have steel, thats the real question how they made it with wooden tools or brass only? in modern terms is like creating and moving a huge titanium sculpture with ropes and steel files only.
Scordare pyramids blocks are way smoother then this and have no holes.
Luis Fernando That's not really the same equivalent. It's quite well known how the stone for the pyramids was quarried and cut. Granite was also cut using a few methods, one effective one was copper but expensive for them because of imports.
However there is many many pyramids all leading upto the famous ones, it shows the evolution of their building techniques including their failed ones where the foundation gave out, a chamber collapses etc
The internal ramp theory seems the most plausible and was also seen in another earlier step pyramid built, the rock cutting was tedious but again the tools on site, and incomplete ones show their methods. For instance the obelisks that never quite made it out the ground shows they used rock hammers to remove material all around, however abandoned one that was cracked.
Unlike what most documentaries say they are not a big mystery, experts know there is several ways they could have been done, especially after seeing the many before them and observed the learning. The only mystery is which of the plausible methods was used, which isn't totally decided.
We used wooden wedges and water for braking rocks in my country. Easy as fuq.
Low tech is sometimes the best tech... like in this case.
I've never heard an accent like this before but I really like it
it's like gay, southern, Australian
hahaha
Move to Maine! Down east ;)
Kerbd Listen to John F. Kennedy's speeches if you want to hear someone similar. Boston or New Englanders have that accent. I guess you're too young to remember JFK. 😎 👍
I liked it. My people were Babbidges from Deer Isle. I didn't know that when I lived in Bowdoinham. Would have liked to have gone there. Your video is the first I have seen of the place. Thank You for sharing.
My great-grandfather worked at, and eventually managed, the Wildcat granite quarry at the end of Long Cove in Tenants Harbor, Maine, just down the coast from you.
What a neat lad! Its crazy to find out how we used to do things in the past :D a learning experience
Sounds like he's playing the Flintstone's xylophone
I noticed you don't have flat thumbs, you must be safety conscious! lol I can see where you have to use patience with this procedure, it would be very easy to ruin a slab and I know it's expensive.
the ancient method of rock cutting.. truly wonderfull
This gentleman is 215 years old. I'm so happy the old dialect and the old ways are still alive down east. Ayuh.
After all that, I'm actually kinda disappointed that they didn't show the rock actually coming apart. Weebl was right, though, this looks like a very satisfying job.
The crack did show up....
About how many times did you smash your fingers into the granite?
Trent Tiedeman How many times would it take for you to learn to be careful?
If this guy lived in Boston a couple of years he’d sound like Willem Dafoe
Totally fascinating! Would be really neat to have a mic close to a crack for us to hear the cracking going on.
Thank you, Joe, for sharing Dennis's expertise in stone cutting with us. It was very enjoyable.
Mama always said, "Life is like some blocks of granite"
Life is like a box of chocolates I doesn't last long for fat people
+RandomlyRandoms D:
the harder you try the faster you sink.
@@TrebbleBucket 😆😆😆stop🤚
@@TrebbleBucket I'm not beating it..lol.. You cracked me up
That granite formed about a billion years ago. In another billion years, it will probably still be there.
This guy doing the wrong way....
The Rock is very heavy, the correct way would be to position the Rock in a slope or elevate the opposite side of the crack with wood underneath.
The way he is trying, the nails cause the crack but also need to push the other half of the Rock. Gravity could do this easily.
Good observation Im about to start a quarry job.
Used to visit deer isle every summer. My aunt and cousins have places down in Stonington. Miss that place. I’m from Ontario Canada btw
Fascinating... hope to see you splitting another granite slab some day live.
I wanna hear him hitting them faster. Sounds great
just speed up the video then
+Rhys That would distort the pitch...
what am i doing with my life? i just watched a 6 minute and 48 second video of some guy just hammering a rock till it breaks in half.
+VIper minecraft at least you weren't playing minecraft
I did said tbe same question to myself...
funny comment
Worst : PS2...:(
+Famous Corn Star Well, consider the fact that the invention of the wedge is one huge step for humankind. From that perspective this becomes quite educational. ;)
You would of been sooo fired at Stonehenge...haha
+C D Kennedy would have*
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Nice ring tone! I totally understand this method. There is a love of stone masonry that must be in my sinews.
My parents use the same method to get me out of the computer chair I was stuck in. It worked by I realised that my body couldn't stand up. Any way I blame feminist for this because they created unrealistic expectations for men.
~Snoop Doge, basement prodigy.
LMAO!!!!
I would blame bertha.
c:
Don't worry about it bro, just play RuneScape with me and join my clan please.
oddly satisfying
to cut a stone my grandfather used dynamite, at least it was quick to do the job, he would drill holes in the rock and then insert dynamite and fire them and the stone was cut
+Anna Ciavarella Dynamite is exactly how they do it in quarries. But for splitting smaller blocks like this one it is too expensive.
Usually special clay is used to do that as far as I am concerned. They fill the drilled holes with this clay and it expands over time splitting the rock.
Egyptians need to quarry one out, refine, adjust, measured, lifted, transport to destination, lifted again, place, and adjust again for each block. They have to have one after another every 5 minutes, 24 hours a day, 7 days a week for 20 years straight to built the pyramid. Can’t see how that’s possible. Incredible
Not trying to be a hater but it was a little longer than 20 years. Those stones only way about 2,500 a piece. I know the history channel blows it out of proportion like nobody could do it but no it is completely possible. Look up the temples of Balbek. That's something mysterious. Wait till you here the weight.
I have never been to the deer Isle hostel but now I need to, just to see the workshop
Damn crickets!
They’re not crickets
@@fujitofusan, enlighten us, Grasshopper. ;o)
"Look just like they did when they were set.......pretty"
Your hammer is to small sir..
lol
+SuperDaveVideos It is not always about size, it is how you use it.
+krecikowi Keep telling yourself that.
cutting rock need small hamer becoz 1 mistake stone break like a glass
+krecikowi Says the man with the small hammer
man life is so beautiful, i like to get this stuff in my recommendation, it so relaxing
why can't people enjoy things like this
I would live just a video of you working a stone, no interruptions, (you can drink water and stuff) I would love it, the sequence of sounds is *BLISS*
needs more cowbell.
Lol. I didn't even watch the video yet when I posted that. I just thought he sounded like Christopher Walken.
lmfao
I was watching guys fall off bikes a moment ago.. No idea how I got to a video of a bloke splitting a rock? :/
+benlyons83 In both videos things were broken, there's the commonality lol.
lol me too
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I live less than an hour and a half east of here, also on the coast. Family has been here for over 250 years. I assure you there are many smart, skilled craftsmen in Maine.
You seem like a chilled dude. Nice video.