Metal Gates

                          And here is a real nice little  gate I built on the back of the property.

Metal Gates

I've been busy building a couple of gates for my place.I used spark plugs for the plume on the yucca plant. These were fun little projects and they add a nice whimsical look to my house.

I helped Brad Quinn install a nice sandstone veneer on this home owned by Paul Allen. We matched up the original stone perfectly on this addition. Great place to work! Thanks, Paul!

Roy Madison, his son Skyler and put the stone on this house in Cannonville, Utah. This was a very tough job for a lot of reasons like remote location, difficulty in getting water and power and a low bid. If all the jobs were this tough and unrewarding I would not be a stone mason. The only good out of this is knowing we did a good job inspite the hardships.

P-pump conversion, Dodge Cummins

So my VP-44 injector pump died again for the second time on my Dodge Cummins diesel truck. It broke on the last river trip and let everyone down. It was hot and we were three days getting it and the trailer with the boat back to my place.  So I went to Phoenix to Escorpion auto wrecking where Mynor and Joe had a P-7100 pump, gear case, gear cover, support bracket and oil lines. All for $800.00 dollars. That is a P 7100-pump above in the picture. I fabricated all my own throttle linkage and brackets like this one.

This bracket supports my ECM. I bent and reused my old injection lines with original injectors. This is a huge job! But it works! I am driving it around now and it works great! I could not have done this withoutt the help of online images and articles . Thanks to all! I have about 35,000 mile on it.

Leeds Bishop's storehouse

 Ken and Patricia Hadley are restoring the Bishop's storehouse or tithing house in Leeds Utah. The stone around the back door had been torn out by a previous owner who had the idea of making the doorway bigger, but then found out he should have left it original size because of its historical nature So, that was a problem. Also, the pioneer lumber supporting the basement door had rotted out and was failing. So, that was the second problem.

 We cut out two new headers from a stone that was a very close match to the existing headers on the building.

 I built the corners back up around the door.

 Ken removed the rotten lumber and stones above the basement door.

 Deja, my dog, is inspecting the finish header over the basement

And here is the doorway finished and ready for the new landing. Now, doesn't this look great? Aren't we glad we hired a stone mason to fix this up? Ken was a great help on this project. He even went out to the rock yard to help cut out one of the headers. Thanks,  Ken and Patricia for letting me help you on this fine old house.

Zion overlook project

 This little project is in Zion National Park. Roy Madeson and I worked on this for seven weeks. We first dug the footings, poured them and then laid up the block. Then the concrete guys poured the sidewalk. That is Roy and Blake in the picture. We worked with Eddie Lopez and Stephanie Loud on this job.

This is the new stonework on the stairs matching the 1929 work.

 We then laid up the stone on the south side, matching the old 1929 work as closely as we could. This is the new stair landing and new A/C pad area.

We were able to break up this boulder that had fallen into a narrow part of the road and use it in the wall. It was an exact match for the color we needed. Architect was Kim Campbell. Overseeing the job for the NPS was Jim Butterfus.