Richard
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- Joined
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- Location
- Knoxville, TN
- Tractor
- International 1066 Full sized JCB Loader/Backhoe and a John Deere 430 to mow with
We are finally nearing the completion of The Great Wall of Greenback. China better watch out!
Marion & I are sitting there as you will obviously notice, which happens to serve nicely as a size reference.
Every one of these rocks was picked up one way or another off the farm. Some of the larger squared ones were part of the foundation of some old house or barn that Marion's father says was roughly 150 years old when he bought the land and THAT was maybe 40 years ago +/-.
What I find interesting is some of the larger rocks that were part of the foundation show their drill holes where they drilled somehow a 3/4 or 1-inch hole and I presume used the feather/wedge thingy that someone posted here recently. I can't imaging how much effort it took for them to carry these rocks from the "quarry" to their final destination 150 years ago. The quarry is still there and that is in fact where we got a some of these rocks, it is maybe 1/4 mile down the road. I hope they had a BUNCH of oxen back then.
Marion & I collected virtually ALL of these rocks and put them in place. Ok, so I lied /w3tcompact/icons/blush.gif Brutus was obviously a BIG help! /w3tcompact/icons/laugh.gif Actually, for those of you with an L-35 or similar loader capacity, a couple of the large ones were picked up with a rental unit (L-35) one day and the Big Orange handled them very well indeed.
As of the time of the photo, we had JUST got done placing the last stone of the day and she couldn't wait to start washing them down, we still have another rather large one to place along the top as a "focal point".
Where we are sitting, behind us is an area that bulges towards us and she is using that as a planter area for flowers. In fact, we have about 3 planter areas with this one being the largest of the three. She will put flowers, ivy (not poison I hope /w3tcompact/icons/crazy.gif ) mint, blah blah blah throughout the entire wall.
This past weekend we finished most of the lighting and irrigation that we are installing for the patio & rock garden areas.
Goal is to finalize all and make it pretty for August wedding plans (ceremony held at house) I will endeavor to post an “after” picture with the flowers and all in bloom and with all the mud washed off the wall.
Richard
Marion & I are sitting there as you will obviously notice, which happens to serve nicely as a size reference.
Every one of these rocks was picked up one way or another off the farm. Some of the larger squared ones were part of the foundation of some old house or barn that Marion's father says was roughly 150 years old when he bought the land and THAT was maybe 40 years ago +/-.
What I find interesting is some of the larger rocks that were part of the foundation show their drill holes where they drilled somehow a 3/4 or 1-inch hole and I presume used the feather/wedge thingy that someone posted here recently. I can't imaging how much effort it took for them to carry these rocks from the "quarry" to their final destination 150 years ago. The quarry is still there and that is in fact where we got a some of these rocks, it is maybe 1/4 mile down the road. I hope they had a BUNCH of oxen back then.
Marion & I collected virtually ALL of these rocks and put them in place. Ok, so I lied /w3tcompact/icons/blush.gif Brutus was obviously a BIG help! /w3tcompact/icons/laugh.gif Actually, for those of you with an L-35 or similar loader capacity, a couple of the large ones were picked up with a rental unit (L-35) one day and the Big Orange handled them very well indeed.
As of the time of the photo, we had JUST got done placing the last stone of the day and she couldn't wait to start washing them down, we still have another rather large one to place along the top as a "focal point".
Where we are sitting, behind us is an area that bulges towards us and she is using that as a planter area for flowers. In fact, we have about 3 planter areas with this one being the largest of the three. She will put flowers, ivy (not poison I hope /w3tcompact/icons/crazy.gif ) mint, blah blah blah throughout the entire wall.
This past weekend we finished most of the lighting and irrigation that we are installing for the patio & rock garden areas.
Goal is to finalize all and make it pretty for August wedding plans (ceremony held at house) I will endeavor to post an “after” picture with the flowers and all in bloom and with all the mud washed off the wall.
Richard
