Re: Rock/Stone

Posted by Tree Farmer on December 29, 2003 at 19:13:20 from (24.213.7.21):

In Reply to: Rock/Stone posted by JCB on December 28, 2003 at 17:07:26:

My 2 cents worth: 1) My 90 year old uncle told me that he was 18 years old before he figured out that his Dad, my Grandad, wasn't raising rocks on the farm. 2)On the serious side, I have been working with this rock/frost/heaving problem for +40 years and am of the opinion that the frozen soil expands, raising the stones, then during spring melt when the soil becomes semi-fluid, a small amount of soil runs into the void left by the raised stone, therby preventing the stone from returning to it's previous location/elevation. Some stones may raise rapidly, some slowly or not at all. The soil type is critical, sandy/gravely soils being less of a problem than the silts and clays. We have solved the frost/heaving problem, by using Dow Blueboard around posts, over waterlines, etc. Our frost goes down +6 feet in severe winters with little or no snowcover. Apologize for being long-winded on this.

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