{"id":15,"date":"2014-03-15T08:42:50","date_gmt":"2014-03-15T08:42:50","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.positivelystoneaged.com\/wp\/?page_id=15"},"modified":"2014-03-15T08:42:50","modified_gmt":"2014-03-15T08:42:50","slug":"sales","status":"publish","type":"page","link":"https:\/\/www.positivelystoneaged.com\/wp\/?page_id=15","title":{"rendered":"Sales"},"content":{"rendered":"

At the moment I haven’t\u00a0\u00a0 got this part of my website working as an effective sales site\u00ed\u00a0\u00a0 because as you can probably appreciate statues come and go (sometimes very quickly)\u00a0\u00a0 and my computer skills are not so hot as to change things too regularly. \u00a0 Also making statues using mostly hand tools is time consuming and I can\u00edt\u00a0\u00a0 churn them out at a speed that means you can be highly commercial.<\/span><\/p>\n

\u00a0 So I chip away and my blocks of stone and I try to add some photos of pieces\u00a0\u00a0 I have made onto my gallery page to give you an idea of what I make rather than\u00a0\u00a0 what is available at any one time.<\/span><\/p>\n

Another factor which I haven\u00edt\u00a0\u00a0 figured out yet is how to transport sometimes fairly intricately carved pieces\u00a0\u00a0 safely over any great distance ie. packing and transporting. I have moved some\u00a0\u00a0 pieces around the Hawkes Bay and Wellington regions, but not further a-field,\u00a0\u00a0 so if anyone is interested in moving statues this is another cost they have\u00a0\u00a0 to consider on top of the cost of the statue.<\/span><\/p>\n

\u00a0 Stone can break so it needs to be packed carefully and stone is VERY heavy.<\/strong><\/span><\/p>\n

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An example\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0 of a problem we had with weight was when we were putting together my big\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0 Nikau Palm piece. This is a statue made in two pieces each weighing just\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0 under a tonne. We asked our local trucking firm to help us put the statue\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0 together using some of their guys and their forklift. The forklift lifted\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0 the stone easily enough but when it started moving with the weight on the\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0 front the stone was so heavy that the forklift sunk through the very ancient\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0 asphalt on our drive and got stuck up to its axles in our drive.<\/span><\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<\/tbody>\n<\/table>\n

\u00a0 They had to get a BIG truck to come and pull the forklift out! <\/span><\/p>\n

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