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Most places would help you load it. They pay by the ton to dispose of it. My friend that has a shop will sit them outside with a free sign on them, they disapear quickly. I took a pile of scraps and we paved around another friends fire pit, looked pretty nice.

Aaron

That's exactly what I was thinking Aaron. A nice random stack with holes bored through might make a nice water feature too.

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A simple solution is to go to Lowe's or Home Depot and buy two of their 12x12 concrete paving blocks and a 12x12 granite floor tile. Glue the Granite to one of the concrete blocks and stack the pair onto the other concrete block. Whole set-up should cost just under 10 dollars.

Here at summer camp for the kiddies I'm using these 12" pavers faced with a 12" Vinyl Composition Tile.

Works just swell.

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There was a member that had a yard full of abandoned granite slabs that he was giving away. He was in SoCal IIRC. Lots of free out there, no need to spend $.

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I stopped by a little shop that does gravemarkers. I told the guy at the desk who I was, what I was looking for, and what I was gonna use it for. The man walk me out back and asked "will this do"(as he pointed to a piece of granite that was 15"x20"x4")? I told the nice man yes. He told me that I could take it off of his hands for $25. :banana: So I reach into my pocket for my cash and low and behold no $5 bill, so I asked him if $30 would be ok, and of course he said yes.

Unfortunatley this little place has no parking lot and is on a busy road, so the closest place I could park was about 100 yards away. Lets just say that with carrying an 85lb piece of stone, that distance, I think I got my exercise for the week. That's ok, I needed it(the exercise and stone) and it was worth it.

Thanks alot for the tip mogwild. :You_Rock_Emoticon:

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I stopped by a local headstone co. and they had a stack of chipped and some with mistakes they said I could take all I wanted because someone from the city had gotten on them and they were cleaning the place up. I walked away with three good stones. (took my horse trailer to haul them off though,and flattened the tires on a two wheel dolly. Very heavy!)

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Yeah, they are heavy. They usually use a small picker or one of those in box crank cranes to install them!

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There was a member that had a yard full of abandoned granite slabs that he was giving away. He was in SoCal IIRC. Lots of free out there, no need to spend $.

Can anyone tell me who thde member in So Cal is that has Granite for free? I just bought a slab pretty cheap, but would like a little more, and I'm in So Cal, i'd gladly take some off his/her hands.

There was a member that had a yard full of abandoned granite slabs that he was giving away. He was in SoCal IIRC. Lots of free out there, no need to spend $.

Do you know the name of this member in So Cal?

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