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Old 06-14-2007, 01:03 PM   #6 (permalink)
Tollster
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Join Date: Feb 2005
Location: Benton, Pennsylvania
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Default Re: Pennsylvania stone wall project...:)

I have pics on my home computer, I had to merge the pictures in photshop due to the length of the wall. I looked around at the local stone yards at pallets and they wanted 139.00 per pallet for 3000lbs. The I was out riding my motorcycle in the country and saw where they where harvesting the stone from a local farm. I stopped in and asked how much a pallet if they load and I haul. Price was 80.00 a pallet. Thats where I met the workers and hired them on as they where off memorial day weekend and the following saturday.
I made allot of trips but cut out allot of overhead and the middle man...Total was around 4k for 260' of wall install. I backfilled on my own with 2b, roughly 16 tons. Still waiting for my account to stabilize before I order the topsoil triaxles.
My wife was apprehensive about the second wall, but at that price I had to move. Funny thing is, those hands had never built a wall before. I cannot wait for ya''ll to see the pics. I watch them from a distance and they did not pick up the first rock they came to, they actually found the ones that fit, which is why I wanted to show some courtousy. If I had hire someone else I kind of feel like it would not have been as nice and 4 times as much. Customer service seems to be lacking aorund these parts. Close to wilkes-barre red-rock area in NEPA.
Heres the pics I promised.
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File Type: jpg upper wall.jpg (358.7 KB, 1011 views)
File Type: jpg lower wall.jpg (386.9 KB, 881 views)

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