Stone walls

fruitcakesa · Jun 1, 2020

After years of digging and clearing stones, rocks and boulders etc. from our homesite and just stashing them at the edges of the woods usually up against the remains of old stone walls; I am now dragging them from their resting places and building some proper rubble stone walls with them.
This will be a long term project that will be pretty free form.
The grapple fork is getting a work out, first clearing and leveling the area, then hauling stone back to build with.
First pic is before digging
Second shot is digging starting
Lots of tractor fun

More pics to come

fruitcakesa · Jun 1, 2020

Building and built, rubble at its best

GreensvilleJay · Jun 1, 2020

my back hurts !!!
looks like you're just a 'stone's throw away from being done'.....

fruitcakesa · Jun 1, 2020

GreensvilleJay said:
my back hurts !!!
looks like you're just a 'stone's throw away from being done'.....

That's what the M is for.

jajiu · Jun 2, 2020

Kind of like what I'm doing. I use my backhoe and forks, but that grapple-fork looks handy.

shootem604 · Jun 2, 2020

This is why I put a thumb on my backhoe. I have an old school friend who builds huge rock retaining walls, and he uses an excavator with a rotating claw. It's a combination of luck, skill, construction, and tetris.

fruitcakesa · Jun 2, 2020

Both walls done, makes for an interesting view now when we look out across our front yard and if you look closely in the 3rd pic, frames the trail that runs through the woods to my folks place

jajiu · Jun 2, 2020

fruitcakesa said:
Both walls done, makes for an interesting view now when we look out across our front yard and if you look closely in the 3rd pic, frames the trail that runs through the woods to my folks place

Nice job! My job is just a retaining wall, your's is nice, neat, picturesque.

fruitcakesa · Jun 2, 2020

jajiu said:
Nice job! My job is just a retaining wall, your's is nice, neat, picturesque.

Thanks, it is great fun to build too.

GreensvilleJay · Jun 2, 2020

I'f I'd done it, the opening would be 3" too NARROW to get the tractor through

D2Cat · Jun 2, 2020

Nice work. Who is standing way back in the timber on that third picture waving when you took that picture?

Lil Foot · Jun 2, 2020

Len, either I'm looking at the wrong pic, or you have got better eyes than I do...

fruitcakesa · Jun 3, 2020

D2Cat said:
Nice work. Who is standing way back in the timber on that third picture waving when you took that picture?

Must be the ghost of the woods:

skeets · Jun 4, 2020

GreensvilleJay said:
I'f I'd done it, the opening would be 3" too NARROW to get the tractor through

That makes two of us, and I wouldnt figure it out till I was done

Ya done a nice job

fruitcakesa · Jun 5, 2020

Stockpiling stone for the next section of wall

fruitcakesa · Jun 10, 2020

More progress on the wall.
And it's a big enough opening for the M

fruitcakesa · Jun 21, 2020

Cleared some trees around the next wall section.
Stones laid in for the work

fruitcakesa · Jun 29, 2020

Got it built to the next opening. Maybe 75 feet so far

PHPaul · Jun 29, 2020

That looks great!

Can you imagine doing that with horses and hand tools like the old farmers did?

fruitcakesa · Jun 29, 2020

PHPaul said:
That looks great!

Can you imagine doing that with horses and hand tools like the old farmers did?

I think about that when I am horsing one of the big boys around with my loader and then consider how many miles of walls were built with just man and real "horse" power

Stone walls

Well-known member

Attachments

Well-known member

Attachments

Well-known member

Well-known member

Active member

Attachments

Member

Well-known member

Attachments

Active member

Well-known member

Well-known member

Well-known member

Well-known member

Well-known member

Well-known member

Well-known member

Attachments

Well-known member

Attachments

Well-known member

Attachments

Well-known member

Attachments

Well-known member

Well-known member