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Originally Posted by dtd24
What a nice quiet looking place you have. Beautiful wall!!! It's all loose fit right? No mortar? How about a footing? Gravel?
Just asking because I have a ton of shale on my property and was thinking of starting a project alike yours.
Think you could send those guys up to me for a week or so?
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Yes, it is loose, no base prep besides cutting the sod and a wide trench with the back hoe. The ground is well compacted and has a high drainage. The previous owner used to work for the DOT, so he filled in allot of the yard`with the road gravel and ditch scrapings. Also by the pond the hill has a shale content about 6" down at most, I think there may be a shale ledge there somewhere, fortuately I did not get into it on this job. Backfill was 2B stone tapered in to the hill, to a height of within 4-6" of the top (16 tons total, 8 trips with trailer). This also filled in some of the stone gaps in the walls tightening it up some.