Ever seen anything like this? mk2 - Wow

[ken]

Whilst laying indian stone today we found this......
squashed between two slabs. Any one els seen one of these? Is he home grown or a foreigner ?

[ABILITY]

Yesterday we had a huge bug thing amoungst the indian stone in a crate, a sort of cock roach / cricket looking with large spike on back end. Still alive which is worrying, got quickly squashed though.
See alot of spiders and spider nests etc and often wonder about what we are all introducing to this country.
Are the ships sprayed with anything to try and kill stuff?

[alan ditchfield]

Dont be too hard on the little fella atleast he brought some money with him unlike most of the immigrants we are getting at the moment.

PS.. I have seen quite a few scarey creatures in with indian stone luckily none were alive, but as Ability said surely we should be trying to prevent introducing some of these creatures into the country ?....

Alan D.

[LandscapeMann]

Yesterday we had a huge bug thing amoungst the indian stone in a crate, a sort of cock roach / cricket looking with large spike on back end. Still alive which is worrying, got quickly squashed though.
See alot of spiders and spider nests etc and often wonder about what we are all introducing to this country.
Are the ships sprayed with anything to try and kill stuff?

I the USA yhye try to keep out as many aliean Plants and Critters as possible. But of couse we still have a ton of them here
LM



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[Tony McC]

Do you get much of the imported Indian sandstone over there, LM??



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[LandscapeMann]

Do you get much of the imported Indian sandstone over there, LM??

Tony,
I really don't know, as I have not personally used any. Most of my experience is with block pavers, retaining walls, Bluestone, gravels etc. I am only a one guy operation and I do a fair amount of equipment and drainage work also. (When I am able to work at all) So I don't get a great deal of experience to try and learn even a small slice of all the great aspects of paving you cover. But of course your site is a great learning tool for me.

Along those lines, it is truly amazing to see the experience and expertise that you have accumulated and can so skillfully
articulate to all. Plus the endless amount of time and energy that you selflessly, obviously, pour into this venture. It would seems that it would take me about about a dozen life times to match your paving knowledge and I would still fall short.

Carry on with your great works.
LM

[mouldmaker]

There's a lot of imported stone in the US, although the guys selling it are very coy about the origins. Most tried to tell me travertine was from France, for example.