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Originally Posted by Worth1
You can see old dry stack stone fences all over parts of central Texas built over a 100 years ago.
Read a piece years ago about the men that did it and moved on to another property.
Here is one I found just now.
https://www.google.com/url?sa=t&rct=...gIfnymq0D-uFS7 |
Very nice!
I guess one of the issues here is the amount of freezing and thawing we get in the run of a winter. There is no guarantee that what is made of rock will be in the same place come spring time. Building without mortar is a plus because it tends to crack badly after a few seasons in this climate. So there would be maintenance on a stack stone fence but not too hard to fix it.
You can find huge heaps of stone here bordering any field that was once farmed. Sometimes 3-4 feet high and 4-5 ft wide or bigger... The fact that no machines existed here to do the work, and was done by hand or possibly with the help of a small pony, just leaves me in awe of the gumption these folks had, to make something of a difficult place...