Subject: Shop Floor

From: BLCKSMTH <[email-masked]>
Date: Wed, 25 Sep 1996 21:40:22 -0400 (EDT)

One of the nicest floors I have seen is at Bob Evans Farm in Rio 
Grande, Ohio. It is cinders from a coal fired generating plant - one that 
does not grind the coal into powder. It is soft, clean and easy to install.
The only drawback is that you cannot leave dropped tools lay on it or 
they will sink into it. Of course you could rake it occasionally to 
retrieve lost items. 
Bob Willman
The Eagle's Anvil
Bowling Green, Ohio

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From: Jim McCarty <[email-masked]>
Date: Thu, 26 Sep 1996 10:00:46 -0500

> they will sink into it. Of course you could rake it occasionally to

I bought fine gravel from a limestone quarry and asked for it with the 
fines included for my floor. It packs real nice but is still forgiving 
to the knees. I left some outside and piled it up to make unloading 
easier -- despite heavy rains the past year it is still just like I 
left it. The fines kind of turn to concrete.
-- 
Jim McCarty
Father Helias Forge
Taos, MO
Editor Rural Missouri Magazine
Newsletter editor, Blacksmiths Association of Missouri

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