Replacing an old retaining wall

[freshtiva]

Decided to replace an old retaining wall around my garage after I found a good vien of rock on the ranch. Ive been on it three days, not including the opening of the quarry. Hard work for an old man. Lots of trial and error when placing the rocks.


Day one


Day two



Today


My new quarry on the ranch, fairly close to the house. Should have plenty of rocks for this job and many others. Im using them natual w/o cutting them.

[freshtiva]

P.S.

The trees I knocked down are "Trees of Heaven" an invasive plant that produces millions of seeds each fall. I found the rock while removing them.

[2xclutchin]

Very Nice, the closest I come to finding rocks like this are finding foundation rocks. My land is on a old townsite, I actually found a rock foundation while palcing my foundation. all the rocks had to of been hand broke, or cut, or what have you. The big city of Hazel, MN, when the townsite closed up shop, the saloon was the last thing to close.

Also I have found large chunks of concrete with the PTO mower, not quite as fun as finding the others.

Sorry for the pointless story, I will go hide in the corner again, but I envy your rocks, haha.

[freshtiva]

"foundation rocks" drool Those are the best.

[2xclutchin]

I'll have to snap some pictures, maybe have a Rock of the month vote? Hahaha

[sc72]

Fresh are those Lime stone, they would work great as a pathway. the work you have done looks great.

[JPT]

P.S.

The trees I knocked down are "Trees of Heaven" an invasive plant that produces millions of seeds each fall. I found the rock while removing them.

They're in New England too. One name for them here is "weed tree" because they sprout like weeds in every vacant lot you see. Very hard to get rid of.

Love the rocks. That wall will look awesome.

[freshtiva]

They're in New England too. One name for them here is "weed tree" because they sprout like weeds in every vacant lot you see. Very hard to get rid of.

Love the rocks. That wall will look awesome.

Thanks

Ive heard the trees called ghetto plams too as they pop up on vacant lots like pictured below.

[georgeb]

The only rocks I ever find is with my mower.

[htchbck]

Yeah, we have those here... we don't call them anything though, we just go after them with the bush hog or flail mower before they get too high lol. I wish I could find stones like that though, I have a 25'x4' sidewalk in front of my house that I will probably end up concreting but I'd much rather use natural flagstones like that... drool

[purg3d]

Thanks

Ive heard the trees called ghetto plams too as they pop up on vacant lots like pictured below.

Ahahah. These border my property. Sway gently in the breeze and grow with vigor. 12" thick, 40ft high. It's a sight. Shame it's soft wood.

Beautiful rock.

[drddan]

Wow Markus, great find. All those flat rocks, hard to come by, and right on your property! Very cool wall you have going there. I'll be out to see it soon.

[fastivaca]

Marcus is turning into a rock star

Sent from somewhere west of here!

[blkfordsedan]

Hmmm......hope that wasn't an indian burial site. Just kidding Marcus, it looks great.
The air is cool and the leaves are changing. I need to plan another business trip to K.C.. But, I think I'll wait until all the heavy labor is done!

[Bert]

This stuff has nothing to do with Festy's but on the other hand does 'put a smile to a face'. You and your're GD rockpile have obviously come to a truce. If "ya can't beat em, join em" is the only way to go.
I wish I had a piece of property like yours.