standing block stability

[Norman Watts <Norman_Watts@zzzzzzz>]

John, laying the stone on its side, thats kind of a cool idea. I'll
have to think that one through. I guess the first disadvantage that
occurs to me is difficulty viewing the object from various angles as
it lies on the ground. You'd also spend all your time working down
low, unless it was up on a support, in which case turning the thing
becomes a problem again.

Wendy, I'd rather not plant the stone deeply because the idea is to
utilize the full length of the material. Also, although I called the
underground material bedrock its not really all that solid either. My
house has a dug cellar (rather than a basement) and when you go down
there you can see that the ridge that we are on is the upper edge of
a slanted, broken layer of shale. You can hammer nails into it.

n