Stopped by the old cemetery on Elm Street and the fence posts told a story

I was driving through a small town called Millbrook last weekend and pulled over to check out the local cemetery. I know, weird spot for a fence guy, but I always look at old work. The iron fence around the main plot had to be over a hundred years old. The posts were set in these huge, rough-cut granite blocks, not concrete. What got me was how they were set... each block was hand-chiseled with a slot for the post, and the iron was poured right into the stone. No rust at the base at all after all this time. The ground had settled all around them, but those posts hadn't moved an inch. It made me think about how we just drop a post in a hole and pour a bag of mix around it now. Has anyone ever tried setting a post in stone like that, or seen it done on a modern job? Seems like a ton of work, but the proof is right there.

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reese_rodriguez8610d ago

But like, is it that deep? They probably just did it that way because it was all they had back then lol.

the_olivia10d ago

Nah, it was a real choice they made.

ryanm6010d ago

Yeah, "all they had back then" is spot on, I remember dealing with that same junk.