As everyone knows, it's that time of the year again that we must prep our rock storages for winter.

I emptied the pallet entirely, cleaned out the leaves and reinforced the bottom a bit. I added some treated lumber blocks under it to lift it off the ground and I tensioned a threaded rod to span through the box to prevent the sides from bulging out. Then I added a permanent tarp to prevent leaves from getting in anymore and stop the pallet from rotting further. It's also easy to roll to the side when I want to look at my collection. The buckets contain all the smaller stones I have.

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[–] 59 points 1 day ago (19 children)

Dear Dullster,

What are your lovely rocks used for?

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  • [–] [S] 41 points 1 day ago* (11 children)

    This is just a storage. You never know when you need a bunch of good rocks. I accumulate a lot of them from all over my yard.

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  • [–] 20 points 1 day ago (9 children)

    What situations/projects would require a large collection of rocks?

    I'm genuinely interested because I can't think of any use for them outside of building a rock garden.

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  • [–] 25 points 1 day ago (3 children)

    Fire pit, fire place, front porch stone work. Sauna, the fucking Mongolians again. Concrete foundation. Ponds.

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  • [–] 38 points 1 day ago

    Finally, a truly dull post.

    Unless any of those rocks happen to be sharp. They better not be.

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  • [–] 24 points 1 day ago (1 child)

    You should really refrigerate them so they don't go bad.

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  • [–] 18 points 1 day ago (8 children)

    Sorry, rock storage? I .. what?

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  • [–] [S] 21 points 1 day ago (6 children)

    Where do you keep all your rocks then?

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  • [–] 8 points 1 day ago (3 children)

    I toss mine down for garden edging until I need them for something else.

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  • [–] 10 points 1 day ago

    "An important task to be sure. As expected, The Fallibilist excels at all tasks presented." ~The Vortigaunt

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  • [–] 10 points 1 day ago (2 children)

    Wait. People "store" rocks? That's a thing?

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  • [–] 18 points 1 day ago

    I took pride in my rock heap before seeing op's well ordered and preserved inventory. Maybe I'll go out and put a tarp over it today. Thanks

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  • [–] 6 points 1 day ago (2 children)

    Rock storage as storage made out of rocks or are you just storing rocks? Why are do you store rocks?

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    Forbidden spuds.

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    Some darn nice looking rocks there. And those buckets are brilliant - without them all the small rocks would fall to the bottom!

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  • [–] 4 points 1 day ago

    I only wish i could give you 2 upvotes

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  • [–] 4 points 1 day ago

    A very nice collection.

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  • [–] 3 points 1 day ago

    Glad you got this done in time! Geology is cool and great job with that bolt idea and happy rock looking!

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  • [–] 3 points 1 day ago

    This post is great, thank you for this.

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  • [–] 3 points 1 day ago

    this post rocks

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  • [–] 2 points 1 day ago

    Be lucky you have rocks. We don't have anything larger than pea gravel in NW Florida. Freaked me out going to Nashville and seeing hills and rocks everywhere, had forgotten what that's like.

    I can think of one place with rocks, iron ore. The built a water mill there because of that. Otherwise, nada.

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  • [–] 2 points 1 day ago

    Silos needed

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  • [–] 1 point 17 hours ago

    I dig holes and bury the damn things. That way on 10 or 20 years the frost brings them up again......

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