From Quarry to Cemetery Monuments

Quarry Tools & Equipment

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Some Links Regarding Quarry Tools & Equipment

• Brunner & Lay Tool Catalog on the Stone Quarries and Beyond web site.
• Hosting Stone on the Stone Structures of Northeastern America United States, presented by James E. Gage and Mary E. Gage.
• “Methods, Transportation, & Tools,” on this Stone Quarries & Beyond web site.
• “Pneumatic Hammers,” in Tool and Process: essential design elements, by Don Dougan (Scroll down to the tools section.)
• “Quarry Equipment,” in the “Quarries: Economics – Methods – Stone Types – Equipment and Other Considerations” section of this Stone Quarries and Beyond web site. (Photographs and links to further resources relating to quarry equipment is available in this section of our web site.)
• “Quarry-Related Articles from the Manufacturer and Builder…” Magazine (dates from the 1830s through the 1890s) section of this Stone Quarries and Beyond web site. (On this list you will find articles ranging from the 1830’s through the 1890’s that pertain to stone quarrying, geology, etc.)
• Quarrying Methods on the Stone Structures of Northeastern America United States, presented by James E. Gage and Mary E. Gage.
• Quarry Workers Tools presented on “How to Tour the Marble Quarries of Carrara,” by James Martin on his Guide to Europe Travel web site.
• “Splitting and Cutting Tools,” in Material, Tool and Process: essential design elements, by Don Dougan (Scroll down to the tools section.)
• “Stone Quarries – Then & Now,” in “Tools of the Trade For the Well Equipped Shop,” on the Early Stone Cutters in Western Missouri web site, A  Research Study From Jones-Seelinger-Johannes Foundation, 2005, Poplar Heights Farm, 103 West Walnut  Street, Butler, Missouri. (Brian Phillips - Executive Director, Terrie Jessup - Program Director, Patricia Jacobs - Research Assistant, Betty Newton - Research Assistant, Photography - Brian Phillips, Terrie Jessup, Melissa Phillips)
• Stone Quarrying Tools on the Stone Structures of Northeastern America United States, presented by James E. Gage and Mary E. Gage.
• “Tools and Machinery of the Granite Industry,” by Paul Wood, in The Chronicle of the Early American Industries Association, Inc.
  

  Part I. Vol. 59, No. 2, June 2006. (“Introduction: This article, the first in a series of four on granite working, deals with granite as a material, an industry, and a product and begins the description of the granite quarrying process.”)

  Part II. Vol. 59, No. 3, September 2006. (“Introduction: This article, the second in a series of four on granite working, completes the description of the quarrying process....”)

  Part III. Vol. 59, No. 4, December 2006. (“Granite Finishing: A small number of basic finished dimension stones made up the great majority of granite shed production. For gravestones and private....”)

  Part IV. Vol. 60, No. 1, March 2007. (“This article is the last in a series of four on the tools and machinery of granite working....”)

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