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PROJECT COMPLETION DATE: 2006
PROJECT NAME: Green Oaks Development
LOCATION: Wixom, Michigan
DEVELOPER: Quadrants

INSTALLER: Rockworks

 

Placing 8' diameter fieldstone boulder using 50 ton crane with 45' reach.
Boulder is sawn off on bottom and set on a concrete footing flush with brick paving
Bags of ice were used under the boulder to allow straps to be removed.
As ice melted the rock set flush.

8' diameter x 2' thick fieldstone boulder set onto concrete footing in landscaped planting bed. Final grade will be at bottom of boulder.

View of a 8' fieldstone boulder. Rubber and wood spacers were used
to prevent rock halves from pinching the diamond wire during cutting.

Portable diamond wire saw

Crane
splitting boulder
 Diamond Saw
Sculpture base
placing boulder