Browse Forums Landscape & Garden Design Re: Rock walls - alternate for retaining? 7Mar 24, 2010 1:06 pm Blog is now up - http://www.jbdave.blogspot.com/ Re: Rock walls - alternate for retaining? 12Apr 01, 2010 10:49 pm I have done quite a few dray stone walls. I use limestone as it's cheap and easy to work with. Treat it as any wall and you will get good strength to it. You'll need a gympy hammer and a cold chisel and bolster for shaping the odd rock. Then there are those bloody cage things filled with rock. Someone will know what they are called They have some funny name. Re: Rock walls - alternate for retaining? 13Apr 02, 2010 7:27 am Re: Rock walls - alternate for retaining? 14Apr 02, 2010 11:37 am Those towers would be handy to string a line across and dry the socks and jocks on I always wondered with these, what stops the metal from rusting out and rocks falling. Have seen them used around bridges and on serious size walls. The rocks in them are often huge! Re: Rock walls - alternate for retaining? 15Apr 02, 2010 12:19 pm They get used a lot along freeways and major roads here, in median strip landscaping. One of my neighbours has put a few baby ones in his front yard, they're only about 400mm high. Looks like someone's trying to stop their rocks from escaping. I might try to sneak a photo later. It's mostly cacti and gravel with some yuccas; not to everyone's taste, but interesting. Re: Rock walls - alternate for retaining? 16Apr 02, 2010 12:33 pm You know what, that might be the very thing I don't like about them. For a landscape to be a successful one it must be at one with the natural environment. The use of natural materials. These essentially would not create a positive feel or energy for a garden design because they are holding the earth captive. It is being forced to be at one with the design, not appear as it would want to be there doing the job as with dry walls and brick walls. That's it! Now I have worked it out Thanks Kek. I look forward to seeing the earth contained in the cage breaking free Re: Rock walls - alternate for retaining? 18Apr 02, 2010 5:03 pm I quite like them in commercial landscapes - although the first time I saw them, I was all WTF?? Not so sure about domestic use - I guess it could be cheaper than engineering a fancy retaining wall though. Or possibly not. Re: Rock walls - alternate for retaining? 19Apr 09, 2010 5:57 pm I'm with you Fu, can't stand the look of them, they are butt ugly and to me scream out lazy, poor workmanship, passing trend. What happens when the steel rusts and the rocks do escape ?? Re: Rock walls - alternate for retaining? 20Apr 11, 2010 7:08 pm Then nature sets them free making the landscape finally something to be admired Like having a canary in a tiny cage You would never see stone work or rocks treated like that in a Japanese or Chinese landscape (these are the pinnacle of landscape design and understanding in the concepts). The rock or stone is something treated with the utmost respect and care. It is an art form to place and use them correctly and the skills are well sought after. I could never imagine them wanting to cage such an important element of a landscape After all a stone has seen so much more than you or I and has seen the evolution of the landscape it has been in for it's entire time all the while changing slightly to adapt. That is a bit Zen isn't it Hi all, I have been looking at land in South Australia, that is on a slope however most of the core excavation is complete, with a flat area to place a house. The agent… 0 1612 The spacing of the studs looks pretty large especially for a load bearing wall. 3 11394 Nope, only on the inside, I've literally has my ears to the brick outside and can't hear anything. I can sort of 'reset' the noise by pressing firmly on the studs. This… 10 13598 |