One stone mason's opinion on making rock piles as stock piles:
“To hear
stonemason Nick O'Hara talk about building fieldstone walls, you'd think he was
an art preservationist, not a contractor. When he receives sales calls from
Massachusetts farmers who've disassembled their centuries-old stone walls and
piled them up to be sold, O'Hara scoffs.
"I tell
[them], `I have no interest in that stone, thank you. You've already destroyed
it,' “says O'Hara, explaining that piling up stones can break them apart -- and
damage the precious lichen that his customers covet. "It's very much a
sinful thing to do," he adds. Instead, O'Hara requires handpicked stones
that are carefully laid in beds of mulch in the back of dump trucks…”
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