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Traditonal yard making

spoutwell · 2011-08-10 20:07:08

Does anyone know how the farmyards which are still found all over the country were made? I mean the hard farmyards made with stone and some sort of yellow clay - made without cement? I want to make a 'hard standing' under and around a drinking trough in a field and I'd rather have something I can dig out than a big slab of…

10-08-2011 9:07pm

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spoutwell

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Does anyone know how the farmyards which are still found all over the country were made? I mean the hard farmyards made with stone and some sort of yellow clay - made without cement?
I want to make a 'hard standing' under and around a drinking trough in a field and I'd rather have something I can dig out than a big slab of concrete.

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#2 10-08-2011 11:33pm

blue5000

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Do you mean cobble stones?

If the seat's wet, sit on yer hat, a cool head is better than a wet ar5e.

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#3 10-08-2011 11:46pm

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I would imagine they were made from loam as there are plenty of old sandpits on farms where I live where loam was extracted from. Loam will harden like rock with traffic over it.

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#4 11-08-2011 5:05pm

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sh1tstirrer wrote: »

I would imagine they were made from loam as there are plenty of old sandpits on farms where I live where loam was extracted from. Loam will harden like rock with traffic over it.

+1 to that,
we did it only last year that way
and already its hard as a rock

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