Building Stone Retaining Wall

[elkhound]

 

[lonewolf]

I've done that, its hard work.

 

[LadyLocust]

I love construction projects with real materials!

 

[Biggkidd]

Good video. Boy that style of rock laying sure eats the mortar! I often wonder if concrete with pea gravel or similar size stones wouldn't be stronger. Looks like that wall was about 16 inches thick so it should be stout!
Thanks for sharing.

 

[joel]

I worked with a guy who made a loose retaining wall, not concrete, it was much wider & had many truck loads of rock. He worked on it for months, got rock from a earth moving company for free.

 

[UrbanHunter]

We did a couple of retaining walls using natural stone and I remember it took 3 crews to get much work done, 1 crew gathering and delivering stone, 1 mixing and feeding mortar, and 1 crew laying stone. We were doing 3 walls at one time and you could move from one to the other to keep things moving. After a full day of work you could hardly move.