Some modern mason work!!! Maybe Larry would like this!!

JD Seller

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This is the home of one of the fellows we haul feed for. I really like how the drive way is held by a big rock retaining wall.

This is the home viewed from the east. Notice how the drive wraps up and around the hill
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This is the home viewed from the west. You can see how the house looks over the rock work.
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This is the house from straight on the front. You can see more detail of the retaining wall and the nice iron fence and lights on the top of the wall.
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As we say, "Its all fun and games until you get 7 inches of rain in 24 hours, and the retaining wall goes south. . ."
 
maybe it"s tied back into the earth. Also, the key is to backfill with stone and filter fabric. That eliminates hydraulic pressure from the rain water, which is actually what will push a wall over. Solid earth is stable. Liquid earth is not.
 
To rich for my wallet.
Stone work like is paid for in brief cases of money. That looks like a mansion.
 
I really like how it wraps around the 4 car garage, 8 bedroom house with a billiard room, library, servants quarters, and a home theatre.
 
It must be nice to be a poor farmer and have to build your walls out
of what ever is lying around!!!!!!
Nice place......Sam
 
Sam that rock was cut out of limestone right here in Dubuque Co.,Iowa. We hauled all of it. Including the house rock and bricks. There was 35 semi loads of brick and rock. The ones you see going around the drive are two foot wide and a foot thick. I don't remember what each one weight but there where not many on a truck load.
 
He is only about 40-45 and he raises a lot of dairy heifers. I mean 1500-2000 at any time. He is a hard worker. His wife is old Iowa family money. I am pretty sure she wanted the big house but I really like the rock work.
 
Nice place, but I think you nailed it when you mentioned that his wife's family had money. I don't begrudge anyone having something nice, but there are so many that overdo it. Thanks for the pix anyway.
 
Very nice mason work. Is the lower part of the house in brick an old house with the new house built on to it? Looks like his large feedlot is just behind the house, interesting layaout.
 
Bruce you are right at the current prices but he made a killing with them back 5-6 years ago when springing heifers would bring $1700-2000 there for awhile. This fellow is a good business guy. I have know him and his father for 40 years. The father was in the business way back then. He used to "lease" heifers in the early 1980s when guys did not have the money to buy replacements. HE got paid so much for 36 months with a milk assessment then the cow was the farmers. He "leased" a lot of cow around here that way.
 
Beautiful place. Love the brick and stone.

How much is too much??? If he can afford it, its just right for him. Even if there is money in the family, someone had to work hard, and still work hard to maintain it.

Rick
 

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