Last Saturday was cool and cloudy, a perfect day to visit Tribble Stone. Located at the base of the foothills between Boulder and Lyons, Tribble is a great resource for Colorado flagstone (sandstone). They carry both the rose and buff colors, and do custom cutting right on the site.
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| cut stone in the foreground, "random" (as in shapes) in the back |
Here's a flagstone slab right out of the quarry. It's about 10" thick and will be split into 3 or 4 pieces by chiseling along the edge and exploiting a natural fault line.
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| Jim, for scale! Note the natural cracks/faults in the slabs |
Or it might go straight to the cutter. This is a pneumatic chop blade. Awesome! This is how dimensional stone is cut; 2'x2', 3' x 2' 18" x 18" or whatever you need, it's made to order.
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| 8" thick slab ready to be cut. Any guesses why this equipment is buried? |
Left over bits and bobs? Not great for structural building, but beautiful as a textural element when applied as a veneer to buildings, columns, fireplaces,
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| Odd sizes await the creative builder. |
or...pots!
Their chokecherries were in fine form, too!
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| native chokecherry, Prunus virginiana |
Note: This article was not endorsed or compensated in any way by Tribble Stone.
