River Rock Landscaping

I am about to order river rocks for our landscaping area, which is about 1000 sq ft. It is in the backyard. We have to walk thru the front yard and down a slope to get to the gate. I have a wheelbarrow with single wheel but can’t haul much in order to maintain balance. I am thinking about either getting one with two wheels or a Gorilla dump cart. I don’t have a trailer so can’t really rent any heavy equipment to help with this process. What do you think? Advise please submitted by /u/heihoiwin to r/landscaping [link] [comments]

Ground and polished a piece of British Colombia Jade. It took around 70 hours to complete. I keep it outside the front door in a small rock garden. I live in Vancouver Canada. The rough piece was posted on Marketplace a four hour drive away. The shape looked interesting. It was a river rock so I knew it would be stable and take a polish as it had survived the glaciers and erosion. It had a 1/2 thick rind on it from weathering that needed to be ground away. The seller was doing demolition work on an old house and salvaged it . This was topping a driveway post. Although there are some nice areas in it, It is landscaping quality jade. Not really worth the expense to cut it up. I first polished at test area to get an idea of color,,translucense and stability. It has nice color variation and interesting "fracture" lines. That is a Makita counter top polisher. I started with a sintered 30 grit diamond grinding disc. Then 50 and 100 pads to set the final shape and remove grinding marks. Followed by 200, 400, 800, 1200, 3000, 6000, and finally 10000 grit pads. I did a small area with chrome oxide and leather but the minimal difference wasn't worth the expense as it lives outside. It glows fairly well at 10000 grit. submitted by /u/leftcoast987 to r/MineralPorn [link] [comments]

So we are converting about a 1/3 of our front yard into a xeriscaping area filled with agave, red yucca, and flowering perennials here in zone 7. The area in question does have a slight slope toward the front of the sidewalk. My worries is that the rocks and dirt would move n combine into one crazy mess or would the 3inch depth of river rocks depth would be enough to hold everything in place? Landscaping fabric should separate the two layers well, but I fear planting,amending the soil, n having a drip line will be much more complicated. What would u guys do from your own experiences? Thank you so much for any insight. submitted by /u/AP2NAT to r/landscaping [link] [comments]

Trying to figure out what to do with this 1 foot wide border around the house. The weeds have taken over here and I’m thinking River rock is the right choice? It doesn’t really catch a lot of water now with the gutters above it. submitted by /u/FlippityFlappity99 to r/landscaping [link] [comments]

Looking to edge the side of my house with river rock. By the ton it's going to be more from a major company vs private sale. Any major advantage of paying more? submitted by /u/Intelligent_Office81 to r/landscaping [link] [comments]

I recently left a job at the 'largest data fortress in the world' out in the Tahoe Reno Industrial Center (TRIC). After seeing what goes on behind those 20-foot concrete walls, I can tell you it is far worse than the public realizes. The most disturbing part? Unless you work there, you have no idea it’s even there. There are zero signs for Switch or 'The Citadel' from I-80. There is no major press coverage or local news about the current expansion. While they tout being the 'largest data center in the world' to investors, they seem to keep a very low profile with the local community. They are building a water sucking fortress in total silence. We aren't just talking about a couple of warehouses. This campus is planned for 7.2 million square feet. To make room for this, they are literally tearing down entire mountains. I overheard them joke about this. Almost all, (if not all) construction management is not local or from Nevada. This isn't just 'empty desert.' This is the ancestral territory of the Northern Paiute (Numu) and Washoe (Wa She Shu) people. The campus is in the immediate proximity of the Lagomarsino Petroglyphs, one of the most significant and largest indigenous rock art sites in Nevada. We are surrounding 10,000 years of sacred history with high-voltage fences and humming fiber hubs. They have 2,000 acres of land. For context, that is nearly 1,500 football fields of desert and hillside being flattened. The wild horses that Northern Nevada is famous for are disappearing from that area. Their habitat is being replaced by gravel pads and server racks. Based on the rapid pace of construction I saw on-site, it is highly likely that the environmental and cultural impact on the nearby Lagomarsino petroglyphs and the Truckee watershed will be irreversible before the public even realizes the full scope of the project. Switch requires an astronomical amount of water to keep its servers from melting. They use a 16-mile pipeline to pull treated wastewater from Reno and Sparks (Truckee River). While they call this 'recycled', that water is being evaporated into the air to cool the machines instead of flowing downstream to the Pyramid Lake Paiute Reservation. In a desert watershed where our snowpack is already at a critical low, we are essentially trading the health of our river and the heritage of the Paiute people to power AI. Northern Nevada is being terraformed. We are losing mountains, wild horses, and water rights to host a "data city" that provides almost zero permanent jobs for locals compared to the resources it consumes. If we don't start asking questions about the Switch campus now, we are going to wake up and realize our landscape has been traded for a giant, humming concrete box. I won't get into the clients for this data center but let's say I believe there are very specific reasons it hasn't been talked about in the press or much at all locally. let's just say they're hosting clients bigger than retail giants. One of the reasons I left was because of safety and competency concerns. The other was being a local, I couldn't do it anymore ethically. More people should know what's going on. I worked there for 1.5 years and saw the project grow from a dirt pad to what it's continuing to become now. Feel free to ask questions but I'm not sure I can answer specific details at this time. Edit: Hey guys. I didn't expect this to blow up the way it has. But I'm glad the community is talking about it. Also, I don't know all of the facts. I just know what I've seen, experienced, and researched. Please go to the Nevada Independent for more information. They've done the only local investigation/s I've heard of: https://thenevadaindependent.com/article/data-center-power-demands-likely-to-keep-nevada-from-meeting-clean-energy-goals https://thenevadaindependent.com/article/the-deal-was-rushed-records-show-company-skeptical-of-state-financing-discussions-to-restructure-public-water-district Otherwise, take this piece of greenwashing to see a bit of who is affiliated on a local government level: https://www.switch.com/regional-water-improvement-pipeline-project-commences-bringing-jobs-economic-growth-and-environmental-sustainability/ submitted by /u/Alone-Sky-2086 to r/Reno [link] [comments]