I m thinking about 6 feet tall on top of the wall.
Fence on top of dry stone wall.
Where a brick wall can be as narrow as a single brick width a dry stone wall has to be wider to create a dense mass of self supporting material that won t collapse.
Some cornish hedges are believed by the guild of cornish hedgers to date from 5000 bc although there appears to be little dating evidence.
Some dry stone wall constructions in north west europe have been dated back to the neolithic age.
Hands on techniques for building a dry stone wall stripping out.
Let s look at the techniques.
Large gray crushed limestone gabion fence with layer of blue rock around permiter of a house.
The first thing you can see is that a dry stone wall is much wider than a brick wall.
Take out the main stones and put the top ones furthest from the wall.
Here s a huge collection of gabion wall and fence examples.
Besides stone prices labor costs to install a dry stack stone wall properly range from 40 to 80 per hour.
Building a dry stone wall in langton matravers dorset.
Dry stone wall surrounds a replica of a traditional blackhouse built by the dswac in ontario canada.
Gabion wall and fence ideas photos gabion is mostly used to create walls and fences of all types privacy fences regular fences garden fences and used in retaining walls.
Evidence of dry stone wall and house construction at skara brae on orkney has been radiocarbon dated back to c3200 bc amazingly preserved as it was buried by sand dunes until the farmstead was discovered in 1850.
If you build a wide double stone wall you can fill the top with a little bit of soil for shallow rooted plants.
Dry stone walling is an ancient craft that goes back thousands of years since the neolithic period.
It is easily the most stable and strongest way to install a fence on top of a wall.
The existing stone wall is about 4 feet tall with a topping stone 5 thick on one side 4 on the other.
While i ve never tested them i doubt they re securely fixed to the base of the wall.
Aluminum fence there are three different methods of installing an aluminum fence on top of a wall.
As its name suggests a dry stack wall includes consists of stones stacked on top of each other without mortar or any other binding agent.
In county mayo ireland an entire field system made from dry stone walls since covered in peat have been carbon dated to 3800 bc.
My main issue is how to support the fence.
Fieldstone fence or dry stack stone wall cost.
If you let roots go deep into a wall those roots will destroy the wall.
Just screwing a frame to the stone would no doubt be unstable.
We recommend core drilling over all other methods.
