Are you looking for a winter project that will add a sense of solidity and style to your garden, while solving landscape problems at the same time? Consider building a stone wall to level a slope ...

A talk on the ancient art of dry stack stone walls will be... www.stonecraftsman.com This class on Saturday is a little spendy ($90, including lunch), but I've always wanted to build a stone wall ...

In segmental retaining wall building, “batter” means that the wall should lean toward whatever it’s holding up. The center of gravity of the wall should be BEHIND the wall foundation, or footer.

Jefferson's wall at Monticello is dry stack. Most dry stack walls consist of two outer walls of facing stones and a center filled with stone chips and gravel.

Dry-Stack The Stones To Save On Mortar And Labor Dry-stacking, or building a wall without mortar, is an effective way to save both money and time when constructing a stone retaining wall.

Around here, Colonial Gray dry stack wall stone is commonly used and runs between $200 and $300 per pallet (A pallet weighs in at around 1½ tons and holds between 25 and 27 cubic feet).

Dry Stack Walls: A Disappearing Piece of American History - 2002-03-05 October 30, 2009 11:13 AM update October 30, 2009 11:14 AM Share ...

Something there is that doesn't love a wall,That sends the frozen-ground-swell under it,And spills the upper boulders in the sun;And makes gaps even two can pass abreast. A look at the state of ...

Dry‑Stacked Stone Wall Workshop. ... The workshop was led by John Shaw-Rimmington, a dry stone wall building expert from Port Hope, Ontario. The 50-foot-long public wall installation was built by ten ...