GABBRO-DIABASE, CHANCE BLACK, LAZNIK, SMOKE, MANSUR, IMPERIAL RED, VISAGE BLUE, UFALEY, KOELGA ... Agree, the names are similar to the brands of American companies or the names of drugs. But no - these are some of the types from the vast world of stones used in the manufacture of tombstones, this ...
... Monumental element.
For a start - think about it ... It would seem that monuments are a rather specific product and slow-moving. In the salons of sales of apartments and cars, it feels much more queuing than in the "gloomy shops of sorrow." But! Not everyone will buy a car and an apartment in their life, but sooner or later (God forbid, it's late) almost any person faces the problem of choosing a commemorative pedestal. And if before buying a car we try to find out as many details and nuances as possible so as not to be mistaken ... the thing is expensive and for many years (often prices for memorial complexes are compared or surpass those of the automotive industry), then we choose a monument, so to speak, to our heart and savings, although also a thing, also expensive and for a longer, longer time.
In this article, we want to tell you how the mechanism for the production of monuments works and what constitutes the mechanism.
Careers
So, in the beginning there was a stone ...
Quarries were opened at the largest known accumulations of granite in our country long ago. But at that time the technology was far from perfect, and most of the developments have sunk into the summer. Flooding, uncontrolled explosions, barbarism and greed have destroyed more than one rock and almost put an end to granite mining.
Modern methods of production have stepped forward, it became possible to restart the quarries of the business stone. A new era has begun - the era of granite renaissance.
The number of open pits is not large - in Karelia there are now about 7-8, in the Urals a little more - about 10, but this number is enough to meet the needs of our huge country.
After explosions and sorting of the dump, huge blocks of 10-20 tons are sent to partners for production, sawing and primary processing shops. Some quarries have their own workshops, but this is rather an exception to the rule.
Sawing shops
A stone weighing 20 tons. A huge block of rock. In the garage or in the backyard, you can't cut this. And with what? Grinder? Imagine a saw that is 5 meters in diameter. For a moment ... 2-storey building. And this is not yet the greatest technique that is needed. Cranes, loaders, lifts, milling machines, etc. - all this requires considerable space and resources.
All workshops are located not far from the quarries - goods of this size and scale are far from being manured. And in each workshop there is a person who is not his weight in gold - his duties include competently assess
