stone free

We try to plan ahead. We put in an order for 100 tonnes of Gigha's finest 20mm to dust which we have been using for concreting in mid July for delivery about now. We are pretty much ready to start placing footings. Now the pan mixer is here we are stockpiling enough for 60 cubes of concrete for footings and floors. It should have been delivered by now but alas the quarry is bare - no stone left. Without going into the vast complexity of reasons why 800 tonnes of stone is no longer there it has left us in a real quandary. We wanted to source materials as closely as possible to keep the carbon footprint down as well as keep our business local and avoid paying the very very expensive transport costs from the mainland. Apart from the cost implications we will lose at least four weeks now - we have to get prices from various mainland suppliers as well as organise delivery. Don't know if we can get 17 tonners on to the site. The tractor we want to use with the pan mixer will be needed for silage just as the stone gets delivered so that'll be another week lost. Expect to be concreting footings

by the end of the month if we are lucky.