石滬工法1：運

The Construction Methods of the Stone Weirs: A. Delivery
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Since the stone weirs have been without maintenance for years, the most original building stones had been covered by sand or torn apart then moved for other uses elsewhere. Therefore, we are often confronted with the lack of building stones. Nevertheless, it’s still possible to find adequate building stones in the adjacent field because the sufficiency of accessible building stones was concerned when the stone weirs were built. Thus, if the shortage of building stones happens in the repair process, the repairmen need to deliver a great quantity of building stones from the shore nearby. Besides, the repairmen will do delivery when the tide rising, in order to save manpower by utilizing the buoyancy. In the early days, people used carriers such as cattle carts, log rafts, sampans, or even the coffin boards, etc. Nowadays, people use foam boats with greater buoyancy, and the sizes of the boats can be customized based on personal requirements. After moving the building stones onto the boat together, one or two repairmen will push the foam boat by floating and kicking legs to deliver it back and forth.
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Context compiled by isle.travel, 2017.

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