advice on simple spring project.

[Backbeach Jake]

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.

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.

[tattoobob]

Cobble Stones is what I would use.

[teaser]

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.

[Adam_777]

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.

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 !

[thortum]

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.

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.