Rocks for Rockery

If you have any rocks lying round, decent ones useable in a Rockery, or you know of anywhere I can get them please shout!


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Oh and I'm in North East Wales if that helps, but anywhere in the North West is fine too.


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Tried Gumtree etc?

 

I was very fortunate to get a few bagfuls of flint from an old rockery via Freecycle. It wasn't even what I'd replied to, but the pots I asked for had already gone and the person who had "claimed" the stones didn't turn up. So, she kindly contacted me to give me first dibs on them.

Are you a member of your local Freecycle Alan? Also try your local free ads (either paper copy or online), they sometimes have stuff like that on offer.

 

I have rock and I'm in the North West, but no good to you Alan with a rather large 'pond' in between!

 

What do you mean a rather large pond I between? Lol.


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I'm on the Isle of Man surrounded by sea.

 

That's fine I'm sure I have a blow up dingy in the garage somewhere!


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I think you might have trouble with buoyancy loaded with rocks!

 

Being serious for a moment (unlike me), unless you can get it very local, its going to work out almost as cheap to just order it in. Any vehicle capable of carrying a significant quantity of stone (and that would include a large car) is going to sting you heavily on petrol to pull all the extra weight over any distance, so what you might save by getting freebies/cheap deals, you might spend on fuel to collect it.

 

True. But I'm often Manchester, Liverpool and Burnley way so if anything popped up round these areas I could pick up then.
My car is massive too (Skoda Superb) and returns 60mpg+ obviously would be less with lots of rock though :p


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I get 22mpg

 

:o What do you have?

 

Gothilde. She is a Volvo 940 Celebration. She has a 2.3 litre turbo (petrol) with an automatic gearbox (viscous torque converter, none of this newfangled dual clutch geartronic milaki), taking all the horses to the rear wheels via a big heavy drive shaft and a big heavy diff. She is lovely though.