Cool website and notion, but, I mean, it's a fucking stone. There are like a billion of them, just laying around, older than all humans. I wish my life was this carefree. I will start my own stone lifting club, everyone is welcome, lift till you drop.
We pour concrete to make Atlas stones for specific weights knowing that these artificial stones will eventually be ruined by accident by the people who have a new interest in stone lifting. We also collect natural stones which may get ruined by mistake so people in the club can get used to lifting irregular shapes.
But when it comes to the historical stones, all the prep work above is so these stones are not ruined. It's a privilege to try to lift a stone that Irish or Scottish men would lift to become huscarls for their lord and breaking one out of carelessness is a loss for everyone in this hobby.
A lot of these stones are important cultural and historic artifacts with hundreds of years of history and culture behind them, and people traveling long distances to see and lift them. Destroying it is irreversible since each stone is unique.
It’s fine if you go out in the forest and drop a random stone, but don’t travel to Iceland or Scotland and destroy a stone with hundreds of years of history.
