Cripp's Stone

ORIGINAL: Loopy

I took a drive out to 20 Mile on Saturday just to take a walk along the stream and to sit on the bench by Terry's stone and just think about the good ol' days with a dear friend. I was disgusted to see that someone had scuffed up the stone pretty bad. There were lots of scrapes and gouges on the surface. What a shame!

Aw, that's awful. I always made sure to clean it off when I went by it. It was OK last month, told Skip he had to cut the grass around it, which he did. D amn shame.

Me and my father where there on Saturday and noticed the gouges and scratches.People have no respect anymore.And they wonder why you see more and more posted signs on properties every year.

Thats a shame, I wonder if we should move it to another location.

KARMA! Must have been one of the guys crying about "There aren't any fish...I can't catch any fish..."

They will (or in this case will not) get theirs sooner or later.

Although it is too bad that someone had to cause damage to this wonderful tribute, I can just hear Cripp saying "Cripp is also a little scratched and chipped, but Cripp is okay.  Cripp's stone is too.  It is part of the character that makes Cripp Cripp."

I have not ever seen this stone (what type that it is ) if there is some thing that I can help whith some one let me know . alot of stones can be repaired or reworked.

I was there today and saw the damage.My thought on this is that it should be elevated and installed on a angle.I tend to believe that the damage could very well have been accidental and during the winter when it was covered by snow.
And the stream was high and dirty and no fish were interested.

Also on that damage,I believe it can be buffed out by a experienced person.

mounting it up would be the best idea we could mount it to another stone like a foundation stone or larger cut it into a shape and polish edges that whay no more problems.

where is the stone at to look at it if we want to make it a project who ever put it in get to gether and let me know would be glad to help if you want. if you take out of cement be carful that is absolute black very hard but can brake very easy in cold droped 6ft x 10ft slab once big mess!!

I believe the scratches came from a mower deck. Looks like it could have been scratched when maintenance mowed around it and got to close scraping the deck across the stone.At least thats what I could tell from the damage. I noticed it when I took the weed eater down there to clear away the high grass. It looked like they stopped getting close to it for a long time. The grass was almost completely covering the stone. It would only take maintenance less than 2 minutes to keep it neatly trimmed when they are there. 

Looked at it today. Looks like damage from mabee the lawnmower deck and screws in boots.

ORIGINAL: pafisher

I was there today and saw the damage.My thought on this is that it should be elevated and installed on a angle.I tend to believe that the damage could very well have been accidental and during the winter when it was covered by snow.
And the stream was high and dirty and no fish were interested.

It was fine when I saw it in early October, and later, after Skip cut the grass around it.