How do these stone columns work?

[chickygirl2]

I have never seen anything like this. This is a picture straight from an ebay auction in AZ for marans. Why would you make columns like this? Wouldn't they tend to fall over?

 

[morelcabin]

Well from the looks of the terrain they don't have any trees. Maybe it is too expensive to get wood over there? It is a desert, after all. I'm really not sure how well they would stand up. Around here we wrap rocks like that with a layer of lanscape cloth around it and put them in trenches and bury them (cheap mans culvert:>) for drainage or culverts

Those ones in the picture must be buried to a certain point to keep them standing

 

[Imp]

I think it's kinda neat. I have a new yard art idea now-thanks.

Imp- has lots of rocks

 

[havi]

Nothing personal, just my opinion..but I hate those things!

We live in Central Tx(Waco area) and most of the land around us in nothing but rock. If your only digging 4 inches or less, then you are fine, its dirt. But anything after the 4in its 98% rock. So I see a LOT of these 'pillars' around farms and things. Everyone uses them. I guess since its so cheap, just a matter of digging it out of your yard, its basically free. Ive seen people use them for everything! Fences, walkway paths(yes in smaller pillars), mailbox holders, etc. You name it and people around here do it.

I dont know how you go about sitting it up correctly. If its a special way of stacking it or something, but they always seem to stay up. They definitely last a while!

 

[al6517]

I have seen them in many places, they seem to be gaining in popularity.

AL

 

[damselfish]

That is really interesting. We see a lot of those in SW Missouri, but they're generally a lot wider. I can't figure out how they're getting those narrow ones to stand up.

 

[Ridgerunner]

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These are wrapped in wire, possibly mortared but not nessasarily.

 

[patandchickens]

I wouldn't be surprised if there were a t-post at the heart of each one.

I think they look cool

Then again, they aren't everywhere here... I can see thinking differently if they're common as dirt.

Pat

 

[nightshade]

I think they look very pretty especially in a chicken coop type setting, but then again I have never seen anything like that around here. If all your neighbors have them then I bet they aren't nearly as appealing.

 

[patandchickens]

You know what, the more I look at that... we have vast amounts of small glacial-till rocks around here, of attractively varied colors... I am sorely tempted to build something like that myself. T-post inside, wire to wrap the stones. Up here, that would be kind of *cool*, I think

Pat