AlanB
Elite Member
I found the posts mentioning "Gabions" but am looking for advice on something slightly different.
My wife is a landscaper and we are going to start selling stones. We have had a good source the last couple of years, and we normally have them brought in too the job site, but increasingly we are having people that just want to buy the stones.
Today she is having 10 tons or so dumped at our lot, and she wants to palletize them.
My current thought is that I would grab some heavy pallets, (readily available to me) then take some 4' high field fencing. Bend the field fencing into a square the size of a pallet, then bend over what would normally be the "top" or big hole portion of the field fencing, about 1 1/2 foot down and staple that bent part to the pallet. Then I would line the inside of that with some rough sawn oak that is available to reinforce the pallet and the wire.
What I should end up with is a basket about 2.5' tall on top of a good solid pallet, with a second layer of oak as a floor.
Anyone done this or can think of someway to do it better?
Should I join my fence ends at a corner or in the middle of a straight run?
And yes, I will take pictures tomorrow as we get going on these.
My wife is a landscaper and we are going to start selling stones. We have had a good source the last couple of years, and we normally have them brought in too the job site, but increasingly we are having people that just want to buy the stones.
Today she is having 10 tons or so dumped at our lot, and she wants to palletize them.
My current thought is that I would grab some heavy pallets, (readily available to me) then take some 4' high field fencing. Bend the field fencing into a square the size of a pallet, then bend over what would normally be the "top" or big hole portion of the field fencing, about 1 1/2 foot down and staple that bent part to the pallet. Then I would line the inside of that with some rough sawn oak that is available to reinforce the pallet and the wire.
What I should end up with is a basket about 2.5' tall on top of a good solid pallet, with a second layer of oak as a floor.
Anyone done this or can think of someway to do it better?
Should I join my fence ends at a corner or in the middle of a straight run?
And yes, I will take pictures tomorrow as we get going on these.