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Old 11-07-2009, 07:46 PM   #1
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First Stone Wall....


Guys after 5 years in business I finally had to build a stone wall. Most of the walls I have built have been modular. Here are some pics of my first one. Be easy on me.
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Old 11-07-2009, 07:53 PM   #2
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So FAR So Good, GMOD
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Old 11-07-2009, 08:17 PM   #3
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For your first wall you chose a good material. Looks fine. Just be careful when you backfill, that pile looks big.
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Old 11-08-2009, 08:59 AM   #4
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Looks pretty good. If that wall is meant to hold back that hillside though I would have battered the wall considerably. A battered wall can support considerably more than a plumb wall.
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Old 11-08-2009, 09:42 AM   #5
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Stone work looks nice but being drystacked I would be skeptical about it holding back that slope.
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Old 11-08-2009, 11:34 AM   #6
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hate to tell you this,but you forgot your mud in the joints.
all kidding aside it looks very good.
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Old 11-08-2009, 11:55 AM   #7
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I do have batter on the wall. As we go we are taking the big coulders we dug out and building a boulder wall behind it. So we have 4' of boulders and clean gravel behind the wall.
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nice layout. How much prepwork do you have on each block-i.e. chipping, squareing face, etc..?
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yeah, that wall looks good & tight,( is it PA blue ?)But so does that stuff falling out of the hillside,that would make a nice wall...CARRY ON!


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Old 11-22-2009, 03:10 PM   #10
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I'm novice myself, In my opinion I'd go with the thicker cap stones.. Also It's a good rule of thumb to not concern yourself with the horiz joints.. The vertical joints need to be stopped more often then not, espec. with a drystack because of its structural integrity..

I really like that stone your using, in the first pic I thought it was bluestone..
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