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03-12-2008, 12:55 PM
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If your near the woods anywhere in mass there are walls extending for miles.I would just walk the walls and look for some semi flat stones and bury them half way making a makeshift retaining wall.That crushed stone can become a real menace when it spreads on the lawn.Make sure you have a good weedguard under that crushed stone also can be a pain weeding rockbeds.
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03-12-2008, 01:01 PM
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Formerly the_shocker
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check on the weedguard. i lined the packed stonedust foundation i laid with it. and also lined under the crushed stone.
i guess that's an inexpensive option. and natural. thanks
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03-12-2008, 04:15 PM
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Seldom Seen
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Now you will have an excuse to fish you know where often! "going to the Castle, honey....you know, to get more rocks for the yard..." Nice selection of smooth rocks on that beach!  |
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03-12-2008, 08:17 PM
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Quote:
Originally Posted by Adam_777
If your near the woods anywhere in mass there are walls extending for miles.I would just walk the walls and look for some semi flat stones and bury them half way making a makeshift retaining wall.That crushed stone can become a real menace when it spreads on the lawn.Make sure you have a good weedguard under that crushed stone also can be a pain weeding rockbeds.
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I have a very dim view of that practice. It's private property, you can't just help yourself because you think that the owner isn't using that wall. Ask me how I came to this state of mind. |
He that would make his own liberty secure, must guard even his enemy from oppression; for if he violates this duty, he establishes a precedent that will reach to himself.
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03-12-2008, 08:28 PM
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Soggy Bottom Boy
Join Date: Jan 2004
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Cobble Stones is what I would use.
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03-12-2008, 09:10 PM
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Wave Jumper
Join Date: Jul 2003
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I did the same with the crushed stone and put cobblestones, no problems after that. Neighbors were getting tired too of hearing stones flying by at 90 mph while I cut the grass.
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03-13-2008, 07:16 PM
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Quote:
Originally Posted by Backbeach Jake
I have a very dim view of that practice. It's private property, you can't just help yourself because you think that the owner isn't using that wall. Ask me how I came to this state of mind.
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Was that you that yelled at me that time ? I was only looking for a few rocks to build a small border around a little rockbed.I wasn't trying to move your property line. 
Now you have me wondering.....Tell us how you came to that state of mind ! |
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03-14-2008, 09:20 AM
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Join Date: Apr 2006
Location: Bean Town
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Quote:
Originally Posted by Backbeach Jake
I have a very dim view of that practice. It's private property, you can't just help yourself because you think that the owner isn't using that wall. Ask me how I came to this state of mind.
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 I agree - and I don't even own a stone wall. 
Cobblestones are very expensive [about $5 per stone?].
You might want to consider laying pressure treated 2x4's or 2x6's on edge and staking them in place, or using landscape timbers. |
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