The front yard project continues. Part of the plan is to use re-purposed stones and rocks and pavers and retaining wall stones through out the yard. Since the yard is so big, that means many many MANY stones. To provide an example, I give you what I did yesterday.
Saw a Craigslist ad for free retaining wall stones in Palo Alto. Got on the phone with the guy to get the address and off I go. Get to this place in Palo Alto where the owner is removing retaining wall stones and bamboo (lots of bamboo) to eventually get access to and replace a common fence with the neighbor. Anyway, there were a TON of stones there. So many that I had to make two trips because the loads were so heavy that my truck was going to scrape bottom if I tried to fit it all in there at once.
So there were 72 “small” concrete retaining wall stones, each weighing in at 27lbs each. 72×27=1944 pounds. Throw in the 9 “LARGE” concrete retaining wall stones, each weighing in at 57lbs each! 9×57=513 pounds. 1944+513=2457 pounds. Or just over a TON of stone. I won’t even include the 20 step stones and one huge round stone in the calculation.
Now take into account that for each stone I had to lift it…
Once to pick it up and put it on the dolly – one ton
Once to pick up from dolly and put in truck – one ton!
Once to move from truck to driveway – one ton!!
2457 x 3 = 7371 pounds = 3+ TONS!!
and at least once more to put it in the yard.
I need a hot tub soak!!
