Dry Stone Walls
  
     
  July 2006  
   
   
   
     
 

This is my first attempt at building a dry stone wall. It reaches a height of about 500mm and streaches for about 10m....Good practice for my bigger garden walls.
I think it'll look pretty good once the cap stone goes on. A success, all in all.

  
     
  December 2006  
   
 
This is my first attempt at making a retaining wall using boulders.
It looks sort of OK, but its a bit messy... Not the look I was after.
And a bit unstable looking. mmmmmm
 

 

  
     
     
  Thursday - 15th February 2007  
 
  What a great piece of luck... My mate Steve, through working for GreenCorp, is receiving tuition on building 'Dry stone walls'.... And he wants to help me do the stone work on my block!!
And not a moment too soon either... My attempts at fitting together those big boulders were a bit rudimentary, and would have left the big retaining wall around my garden looking like, nothing more than a stable pile of rocks.
Steve also thought I didn't key in the bottoms, so most likely they would have shifted.
So with some reluctance he convinced me to remove all those half tonne rocks that Alex, Cindi and I so painfully erected.....
  
 
Now using the improved retaining wall building method, the wall already looks a lot more stable, with the big rocks fitting together like a jigsaw and the bases well and truly dug into the ground.
We also repositioned one of my more interesting rocks, so it greets you when arriving home after a hard day of doing whatever..
   
 
This shows the two layers of rock... the face stones & the inner wall. With the gravel & dirt infill in-between, which has been compacted.
   
 
Yep... This baby ain't moving a millimeter.
 

 

  
     
     
  Thursday - 22th February onwards  
 
 
 
Thursday - 22th February
Coming along nicely
 
29/3/2007
Scraping away
  
     
   
  26/6/2007  
     
     
     
 
  I will have to find somewhere in the wall for this tank wheel.