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Posted by kaitain4 7 (My Page) on Wed, Sep 3, 08 at 19:12
| For the past 9 months I've been working on various stone projects around my property, and thought this group might be interested to see them...
Enjoy!
K4
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| Very nice - all of it. Great job. |
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| Wow I love that look. Your house has a very different look too. I wonder if I could get enough rock out of my mother's garden to do mini walls. |
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| Try it - its very rewarding. Also, you can slowly collect the rocks if you're not in a hurry. Visit sites where they're making new roads or subdivisions. A lot of times they uncover nice stones that otherwise just go to waste. |
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| Thanks for posting your pictures. I've built a couple of much less ambitious projects (although I've worked on them for several summers) and can appreciate all the work that goes into them. I like how you took pictures along the way to illustrate the story of the walls' construction. I wish more people would post stuff like this here, it's exactly what I hope to find in this forum but rarely do. |
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| Juggler, Thanks, and glad I could provide something meaningful. K4 |
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| Makes my back hurt just looking at your photos. You must have one heck of a 'power-tool'. |
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| Fire, It is hard on the back if you're not careful. We moved, cut and placed all the stones by hand, with the exception of the giant boulders (we used a back-hoe). No 'power tools' :-) Just a wheelbarrow, a hand truck, and muscle. |
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Beautiful,
Now how do I get my husband to get more interested in rocks? Poor man has already brought me about 6 pickup loads of rock for the pond and rock garden. I haven't had the heart to tell him we aren't even half way there yet! Maybe showing him all the wonderful things you have done will get him more interested.
Thanks,
Martha |
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| Thanks Martha. My advice would be to find him some help to build walls. Its difficult to do on your own. I got some High School students to help and paid them well, since this is hard work. It paid off, I think. Once you see the work coming along, it becomes infectious and you want to keep going. After all, a dry-laid stone wall can last for centuries if done well, so its like building a monument in a way. Here's a link to the video that inspired me: |
Here is a link that might be useful: Walls of Stone: How to Build Drystone Walls and Rock Fences
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| When I was a child, we lived on a very rocky hill, and my grandpa, who lived next door, by hand built rock terraces. The yard was beautiful, and so many places to grow wonderful things. I was too little to understand how hard it was for him, but now I know! Great photos!! |
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