We built this stonefootball, because of the European-Champion-Ships 2008, which take part in Austria.
It was a big technical challenge for the company Helmut Moser to built such a big ball out of stone. We had this idea one year ago and then we started with this project immediately without any attempts.
It took us about 2 month of hand work to build this masterpiece of stonefootball.
The technical data from the stonefootball:
Material:
- The bright 20 pieces hexagons from Tarn granite,
surface stocket
- The dark of 12 pentagons from Impala granite,
surfaces stocket
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The base part from local "Untersberger" marble,
Surfaces finely ground
Dimensions:
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Ball diameter 2008 mm
- Height 2,5 meters
- Total weight 3 tons
- Built of 32 pieces of granite
- The dark pieces - Impala granite from South-Africa
- The white pieces – Tarn granite from France
This Stone football is unique in Austria
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From design to the final solution was still a long way to go ... |
Here you see the individual steps would be required to put this unique project can be realized.
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The hexagons and pentagons are exactly as planned presentation convex and millimetre manufactured right angle |
| All plant parts are linked to the static requirements. |
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Frequent heavy manual work and precision were needed around the globe, stone by stone to build.
With Auxiliaries, a lot of measuring and control measures, the spherical shape to be built up.
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The building is becoming more and more weight and is only leverage to move debris.
(already almost two and a half tons!) |
| The basic stone is especially built out of Untersberger Marble to carry this heavy stonework |
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After more than a year of planning and after more than two months of intensive work, we can now proudly present our masterpiece in front of the football-stadium in Salzburg, where the European–Champion–Ship take part.
Have a look at the unique stone-football and convince yourself of our craftsman and technical ability.
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