>a pallet of rocks costs $200fucking absurdI need some limestone rocks, they don't have to be anywhere near perfectly-shaped, they are going to be used as a facade for an interior wall. Whenever I drive down the highway I see massive limestone walls where the hillside was blasted away to get a road through there - why can't I just go to one of these sites and pick up some blocks that have fallen?
look at this shit
>>2884042>why can't I just go to one of these sites and pick up some blocks that have fallen?you tell me
>>2884042just watch cl free shit. i put picel plus another heaped pallet of bricks and cinder blocks up and made the dumb chick that came to get the rocks take everything. she was excited to haul my garbage away for free
>Why are stones expensive?We really do have to have a thread on that topic at all times, huh?>why can't I just go to one of these sites and pick up some blocks that have fallen?Dunno, but i assume your arms are too light and your legs too thin.
>>2884042You're not paying for the product itself, you're paying for the labor and equipment used to cut the product and bring it to you in a usable form.
>>2884051Miners are paid pennies, it costs virtually nothing to transport it, what you're paying for is a company being annoyed that you're buying one pallette and not 2000 trucks full of these.I was hit by this brutal blackpill when buying citric acid "in bulk".>$0.10/kg>minimum amount: 1 tonI don't have space for one ton in my backyard, so I am forced to pay $4 per kg for a small bag, or $3 per kg for a bigger bag. It's literally just humiliation ritual.
>>2884042>why can't I just go to one of these sites and pick up some blocks that have fallen?What's stopping you?
>>2884144>it costs virtually nothing to transport itNah, go look at shipping prices for literally anything. It costs a lot to pay for a guy with a piece of heavy machinery to load it on the truck, then the pay for the guy and the $200k+ worth of truck and trailer to burn a bunch of diesel to get it near you, then paying a third guy with another piece of machinery to unload the rocks.It’s thousands of dollars to get a truck to bring something across a few states.
>>2884228I can literally pay $100 and get a ton of citric acid in my backyard, it costs NOTHING.
>>2884144My family runs a limestone quarry. Not a larp. It's expensive. Diesel is expensive and those machines are thirsty. Those machines also break and parts are expensive. Regulations are a thing and adhering to those are expensive. Electricity is expensive. The crushers they use run draw so much power they're hit with a $10k surcharge every month if they turn them on for even one single second. And we're in a day and age where our esteemed elected officials think that carbon dioxide is bad even though trees need carbon dioxide to make oxygen. We need to pay for "carbon credits" for the privilege of supplying the local area with stone. My point is it takes a lot of time and resources to get the rock out of the ground and into nice neat little shapes. If you think you can do it for cheaper, literally no one is stopping you.
>>2884243my hammer costs $5 and I can mine 200kg of limestone and load it into my truck and haul it back home in under a day for under $50 in fuel costs, shut the fuck up faggot.
>>2884254>a day8-10 hours at minimum wage is how much?
>>2884144>it costs virtually nothing to transport itnot true
>>2884254Then do it?
>>2884144I live NEAR these quarries and sell stone on pallets like this. it's like $3k for a tractor trailer to transport this stuff. depending on distance. $6k coast to coast. quarries, palletizing, transportation, explosives, machinery, etc. but you can always start somewhere.
>>2884144wasted dubs exposing yourself as a dumb nigger that doesnt understand the economics of scale or business operating costs. i bet you go into brick and mortar small businesses and bitch theyre overcharging because your phone says scamazon can sell something cheaper
>>2884233You can’t be this dense, right? > 1 person orders 1 ton of acidTake your product which already packaged for large scale distribution from the bulk supplier, put it on a truck, send that truck to one location.> 50 people order 2% of a ton of acid eachNow you gotta measure and repackage your product into individual containers for each customer. And then put those packages on 50+ different vehicles to be delivered to each customer across numerous statesWhich process do you think costs more to do per kg of acid?
>>2884421a lot less than $55, proving my point
>>2884441yeah, real world works exactly as you described, that's why when I go to supermarket, the acid, already prepapackaged, costs less than calling the company and personally ordering a ton, exactly how it works, lol
>>2884144Handling and storing those small bags is inefficent in space and labor. Do you honestly think that shops pockets 90% of the price they charge you? These business operate at tiny margins and many times sell at a loss to kill competition.
>>2884042> live in US> buy a pack of 4 sponges for $0.50> made in chinaTell me how shipping fucking mostly air 10,000 miles makes economic sense
>>2884254Then go fucking do it, stubdick.>REE why won't you pay to work for meeeeeee!!!
>>2885765Because they can load enough onto a boat with other containers of things to sell and make a profit, that's how it makes economic sense you retard.
>>2884243>And we're in a day and age where our esteemed elected officials think that carbon dioxide is bad even though trees need carbon dioxide to make oxygen.Yeah trees need water too that doesn't mean we should perpetually flood them.
>>2884439i don't bitch but i do think the thing i'm buying will cheaper on amazon while not having to deal with the nigger store clerk/owner
>>2884042It's not like they have cops protecting every random rock pile, but most of the gravel gets hauled off-site to various company sites for storage, sorting, and eventual resale. >>2884043Sites like that aren't worth setting up a quarry, so those kinds of cuts usually are just sent as scraps to stone cutters. Sure they may get a few random choice stones out during excavation but mostly that stuff ends up as gravel or railbed infill. These also aren't great quarry sites, since there's an economy of scale and stonecutters are going to want pretty uniform products coming out of their operation. Here's a picture of the same cut as your picture shows. You can see where what looks like glacial sandstone ends, there's a second layer of what's likely limestone, then we hit a third layer of stone, possibly some flavor of granite.
>>2884042>wants random shadows natural rocks>bitches about the price of milled stone bricksYou might be retarded anon but here's some advice anyway. Go ask a farmer who's paddocks you can see have heaps of rocks in them. Chances are they'll let you take them for free if you go and get them yourself because those rocks are an annoyance. Or just go and pull them out of a creek bed a few at a time and hope that nobody reports you.
>>2888256Random shaped *>ducking phone posters
>>2884144Literally almost all the price of rocks goes into the transport of it. If you buy 100$ of limestone literally 99$ is spent on the gas to bring it from the mine to you. The cost to mine it and shape it are pennies on the dollar.
