Limestone Peace Poles
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Since the beginning of time people have set stones
upright as monuments
Stone Stone might be the best thing out of
which to make a peace pole. It lasts centuries making it a legacy. It feels
regal. And it has a stateliness and a solidity that serve the message well.
7 Sides There is more than one way to count the number of continents on the earth. The Olympic Committee considers there to be five, the number that is accepted in the west, and so I make metal peace poles with five sides, one for each continent by the western count. But the way the continents are counted in Europe and China produces the number seven. For one thing they consider Europe and Asia to be two separate continents even though they are one contiguous landmass. There are historical and cultural reasons for their way of counting continents. So I have designed this limestone peace pole to defer peacefully to the way half of the people on earth count the number of continents.
In a stone peace pole, there are aesthetic and structural reasons for seven sides as well, one of which is that visually it is more interesting than six sides.
Languages
Includes 7 translations (your choice) of the phrase “May peace
prevail on earth.” Additional translations of the phrase are available for $100
each. Up to 7 additional can be added.
Commemorations and Dedications
If there is to be a dedication plaque, rather than applying a plaque to the pole I can carve the dedication into the pole as in the photo below (shot in the rain as it laid on my trailer).
Things applied to peace poles eventually come off - caps, plaques, etc. This is one solid piece of stone into which everything is carved.
Printout If you
would like to print a photo of this peace pole to show to other people, click
the photo at right for the means to do that. I also will be happy to mail prints
to you if you need.
Planting When planting it, 3 feet belong underground (I seal the bottom for you). There is no need to meet the frost line since it is not load bearing. And it is not necessary to set it in cement. Just use a posthole digger to dig a narrow hole. Then tamp the earth around it (see installation). Since it will settle some in the beginning, the hole should be a little shallower than you want it to be five years from now (add gravel to raise the bottom of the hole if you dig too deep). It is not just the earth beneath it that keeps a post from sliding deeper. Once the earth has compacted around it, the friction on the sides of the pole becomes as important as the footing under it, but it takes a few years to get compacted that well.
If you prefer setting it in cement, if you'd like to see a drawing for the cement foundation for a much larger stone pole, click here. That is the plan we used for installing a multi-ton stone peace pole.
Size and Cost This seven-sided peace pole is 7.5 inches in diameter. It has a cap that is carved into it. The faces are roughly 3.5 inches wide. Its height is 10 feet. It costs $2700.
It comes with 7 translations of the phrase (more can be added for $100 each) or 21 translations of the word "Peace" each followed by the name of the language. More can be added for $34 each.
To ask questions:
1) Telephone or text me at 513-348-4744,
or
2) Send an
Email
I accept credit cards, checks, purchase orders and paypal.
Shipping
At left is a pole (with 14 translations of the phrase) being prepared for
shipping to UCLA. These can be shipped to almost anywhere in the lower 48 United
States for $650.
If we ship it to you and you do not have a loading dock, it can be shipped to a truck service center near you where they will load it into your van or pickup for you. To unload it at your site, a team can carry it by hand from your vehicle. Eight people is a good size team for the project. It is 600 pounds, but with 8 people that is only 75 pounds per person. However, it is not uncommon for these to be moved by 3 people who back the vehicle up to the hole so the peace pole only has to be tilted, not lifted, and slid into the hole.
The trucking company also can bring it to you on a truck with a lift gate that will enable them to set it on the ground for you, but there is an additional charge for that. So far everyone has opted to lift it themselves.
Naturally Occurring Stone
Since it is naturally occurring stone, from one peace pole to the next a grain might be more or less obvious. Sometimes there are subtle striations that actually help to make it clear that it is natural stone.
Click this image to see a cross section
The quarry cuts these limestone peace poles to shape for me. Then I take them to a stone engraver with whom I have worked at getting good at creating the delicate languages common on peace poles. This is the one peace pole on which I function more as a contractor and designer than as the person holding the hammer.
By the way.
It is possible to have translations of just the word Peace rather than the whole phrase. 21 translations (your choice) of the word “Peace”
would be included. Additional
translations of the word “Peace” are available for $34 each. Up to 21 additional
can be added for a total of 42 translations.
Each of those words would be followed by a label identifying which language it is. If you don't care about identifying the translations with labels there would be room to add even more translations. There would be room for 60 or 70 (depending on which translations you pick, as some are longer than others).
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