Comments on: Building a dry-stone wall http://www.mygarden.lt/2009/02/06/building-a-dry-stone-wall/ Thu, 19 Jan 2012 15:32:33 +0000 hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.0.2 By: power boats for sale http://www.mygarden.lt/2009/02/06/building-a-dry-stone-wall/comment-page-1/#comment-14211 power boats for sale Fri, 13 Jan 2012 14:53:43 +0000 http://www.mygarden.lt/?p=209#comment-14211 Typically the Berthon Sales Department has a enormous international brokerage house with offices in Lymington, France as well as the US. We've been pleased to be able to recommend and help you with your private yacht purchase in the primary yachting centers internationally. We additionally have an energetic brand-new yacht division, distributing Windy Boats of Norway. Typically the Berthon Sales Department has a enormous international brokerage house with offices in Lymington, France as well as the US.
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]]> By: junco http://www.mygarden.lt/2009/02/06/building-a-dry-stone-wall/comment-page-1/#comment-4582 junco Tue, 31 Aug 2010 13:27:32 +0000 http://www.mygarden.lt/?p=209#comment-4582 Very nice. But the most unlikely dry stone walls must be in the Burren, a peculiar rocky region in Western Ireland. About five feet high but only eighteen inches thick, as I remember, and built out of irregular roundish stones. And I climbed over one to inspect an ancient stone monument, but the rocks did not fall. Anyone know how to build a thing like that? Very nice. But the most unlikely dry stone walls must be in the Burren, a peculiar rocky region in Western Ireland. About five feet high but only eighteen inches thick, as I remember, and built out of irregular roundish stones. And I climbed over one to inspect an ancient stone monument, but the rocks did not fall. Anyone know how to build a thing like that?

]]> By: Topher http://www.mygarden.lt/2009/02/06/building-a-dry-stone-wall/comment-page-1/#comment-1776 Topher Sun, 02 Aug 2009 23:26:57 +0000 http://www.mygarden.lt/?p=209#comment-1776 Very nice dry stone garden wall construction on your site. I just recently started some dry stone work on my property in Columbia County, NY., including a garden wall. You can see some photos of it at http://drystoneproject.angelfire.com/ Very nice dry stone garden wall construction on your site. I just recently started some dry stone work on my property in Columbia County, NY., including a garden wall. You can see some photos of it at
http://drystoneproject.angelfire.com/

]]> By: Tim Jackson http://www.mygarden.lt/2009/02/06/building-a-dry-stone-wall/comment-page-1/#comment-1314 Tim Jackson Sun, 21 Jun 2009 12:30:05 +0000 http://www.mygarden.lt/?p=209#comment-1314 A dry stone wall is an extremely durable structure. Where I live, in a former quarry town in north-west England, they were built hundreds of years ago by farmers clearing their fields of stones and stacking them along the boundary. They are also used as earth-retaining walls to terrace our steep hillsides. Many have remained in place, with minimal maintenance, considerably outliving cemented walls. They withstand frost, weathering and small ground movements, failures are usually due to self-seeded trees growing up close to them and penetrating the foundations. To ensure a long life, rather than making a flat top or setting a flowerbed in the top of a wall, we lay a row of stones standing on end packed along the top like books on a shelf, often using triangular pieces, held in place by a heavy slab at the end. This prevents the top stones from being easily dislodged by plant growth or passers-by. Tim Jackson A dry stone wall is an extremely durable structure. Where I live, in a former quarry town in north-west England, they were built hundreds of years ago by farmers clearing their fields of stones and stacking them along the boundary. They are also used as earth-retaining walls to terrace our steep hillsides. Many have remained in place, with minimal maintenance, considerably outliving cemented walls. They withstand frost, weathering and small ground movements, failures are usually due to self-seeded trees growing up close to them and penetrating the foundations.

To ensure a long life, rather than making a flat top or setting a flowerbed in the top of a wall, we lay a row of stones standing on end packed along the top like books on a shelf, often using triangular pieces, held in place by a heavy slab at the end. This prevents the top stones from being easily dislodged by plant growth or passers-by.

Tim Jackson

]]> By: Becky http://www.mygarden.lt/2009/02/06/building-a-dry-stone-wall/comment-page-1/#comment-59 Becky Sun, 12 Apr 2009 03:05:50 +0000 http://www.mygarden.lt/?p=209#comment-59 What a nice stone wall! Your stone is very different from the stone we have in upstate NY, USA. Ours was all left by the glacier. We do have some stones crack occasionally and try to avoid problem types. What a nice stone wall! Your stone is very different from the stone we have in upstate NY, USA. Ours was all left by the glacier. We do have some stones crack occasionally and try to avoid problem types.

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