Decorative Stone Wall Project

[FOURTEEN]

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/forums/images/graemlins/shocked.gif /forums/images/graemlins/blush.gif That is ****** HARASSMENT!!! As the only guy in the class they all want to check out YOUR buns!!!!

/forums/images/graemlins/mad.gif If they tried that with me, I'd turn around and face the class!! /forums/images/graemlins/smirk.gif



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[MossRoad]

<font color="blue">I carried only 8 blocks at a time </font>

Hey, 8X85 is only 680 lbs a load! You could have used a wheelbarrow! /forums/images/graemlins/tongue.gif

That shot of the 4 in 1 dumping over the top of the wall makes me green with envy. /forums/images/graemlins/laugh.gif

Are you wearing Carharts and a TBN hat? If so, very nice combo.

If you keep photo-documenting these great projects, I'm going to have to get broadband /forums/images/graemlins/tongue.gif

As usual, very nice Paul. You are the official poster person for awsome Power Trac projects! /forums/images/graemlins/laugh.gif

I like the way you did the wall so that you could enjoy the stone face. The rest of the world will just have to enjoy nice plantings. Very good idea.

 

[pajoube]

Yes, the carhart bibs are the most comfortable work cloths. The TBN hat goes every where I go (all colors).
PJ

 

[smartguyz]

WOW PJ!

I am in awe. You DO have the most spectacular projects!

The photo sequence is also greatly appreciated. It did get me to wondering whether it would be possible to rig up some kind of 'block-lifter / positioner' to save on your back. Hmmm. Any ideas, guys?

Perhaps the auxilliary hydraulics couple be rigged up to provide some kind of rotation for the block. Hmmm.

Any ideas?


-Rob /forums/images/graemlins/grin.gif

 

[toy]

Your house reminds me of the grade schol where I went as a child only we had a one room building next to the two room building. Two classes in each room no metal detectors, no drug sniffing dogs, no police walking the halls, just a bunch of kids enjoying growing up together.

 

[pajoube]

I was thinking along those same lines. My idea was to rig some type of ice tong that would have flat pieces in the place of the sharp point that would grip as you lifted. Have one more wall to install then will be finished.
Here is a picture of the back fill in place. Ready for the shrubs to arrive. The fabric is folded under the cap for now.
PJ

 

[toy]

Masons use something similar to what your talking about to lift and carry several brick at the same time, it has been a long time since I saw one but it seems like it had a handle that when you lifted on the handle the flat ends would grip the bricks and the heaver you had to lift the tighter it would hold the load.

 

[Sedgewood]

<font color="red"> Masons use something similar to what your talking about to lift and carry several brick at the same time, it has been a long time since I saw one but it seems like it had a handle that when you lifted on the handle the flat ends would grip the bricks and the heaver you had to lift the tighter it would hold the load. </font>

Oh yeah, I remember those brick tongs... groan. Way back in high school I worked at my uncles lumber yard. We delivered brick by loading and unloading the truck one tongful at a time. We didn't need no steenkin' fork lift. Ha!

Lumber we loaded by hand on a truck that had a roller across the rear of the bed. Cranking the roller rolled the load back until the tipping point of either the load (or the truck - whichever came first) at which point the load slid back to the ground and we drove out from under it.

We didn't need no steenkin' OSHA either,
Sedgewood

 

[MossRoad]

I worked for a bricklayer in high school, too. That's one of the reasons I chose a career in computers! /forums/images/graemlins/tongue.gif /forums/images/graemlins/grin.gif

 

[toy]

I figure that a person way back in high school lifting tong fulls of brick by hand often thought how they would like to attach that handle to a machine and thus an idea was born. Next time you have your end loader bucket mounted on the front of your pt, just take time to pause and thinkk how much that #4 coal shovel has improved over the years.

 

[BrianP]

PJ Great job as stated by everyone else. Just clicking the pics make my back hurt /forums/images/graemlins/smirk.gif. By the way your choice of exercize is a good one. Going to the gym to lift weights get old , but I bet that class gets your heart pumping /forums/images/graemlins/grin.gif. Just to thank you for the pics & play by play. I just have to look when my wife isnt around. One look & Id have a WHOLE lot of work this summer /forums/images/graemlins/tongue.gif, Brian

 

[pajoube]

A few more pictures of the wall as the shrub planting is completed. Covered the top in fabric for weed control and started to plant some ground cover to help hold the soil on the front slope.
The first photo is the back of the wall (finished side for me to look at).
PJ

 

[pajoube]

View from the road side. The hedge plantings are in groups of 4 with 125 in total. Planted Contoneaster (lucidus), Yellow Dogwood (Cornus alba) and Red Dogwood (Cornus baileyi).
Will wait a year and then start trimming new growth to fill in hedge and then let it grow to a height of 10 feet including the 3 ft wall. Project will take 4 to 5 years and give me privacy, dust control, wind barrier, and with luck a half zone in growing.
PJ

 

[MossRoad]

Turned out very nice. The street side will look great once the plantings take off. And you get to enjoy the inside for yourself.