Saws & Equipment

After our recent investment in plant Stanley's now have one of the most technonlogically advanced facilities availiable for oolitic limestone production in the Cotswolds.

These saws shown are the tools that we use to produce our sawn six sided stone products.

First shown is our Mono Saw which we use to cut the raw block from the quarry. The slabs of two sided sawn stone that are produced on this saw are referred to as scants. We also use this saw to perform secondary sawing on larger stones.

The second picture shown is our Spielvogel saw which has a 1100mm blade. This allows us to cut any dimension up to 500mm

Third is our profiling saw which we use to cut down the limestone scants. This is where the stone gets sawn six sided. The Profiler can be programmed to follow a set line and thus automatically carve the stone to complex curves. All saws are housed in their own specific production units, enabling ease and continuity of production of stone throughout the Stanley's Quarry Operation.

This is our Building Stone Production facility. The first picture shows our Multi Blade. The reciprocating saw carries 10 parallel blades producing 9 scants at a time. The blade spacing can be adjusted to cut varying thickness.

Secondly we can use the large circular blade with a cut of 1000mm. This saw is employed mainly to scant the raw quarry limestone block.

Thirdly the Frame saw is used to cut the wide scants down to a size suitable for the Cropping Machine. This consists of a guillotine arrangement and an automatic conveyor belt. The sawn four side stone scants (from the frame saw) are broken into blocks about 110mm long giving a stone with a dressed face and back but with four sawn sides ready to accept mortar and placed in the wall.

Finally we rubble the sawn limestone blocks in this rotating drum . This has the effect of rounding the corners to achieve a more rustic appearance.

Here you can see our tiling production line. We begin with raw quarry stone block and cut it into billets on the Diamond Wire saw which you can see in the first photograph. Using a Pillar Crane the stone is then moved to the Panda saw. Picture 2 shows that the panda is a vertical reciprocating saw with 10 blades. The billets from the wire are cut into scants of 28m thickness. Each scant is laid down and cut square to length on the Header Saw and then sent on the conveyor through the calibrator and Honer. This ensures consistent thickness and finish.

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