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[Hommit]

Just dump/quantum stockpile it.

[Brilliand]

You should make several garbage dumps since hauling stone takes very long time. I usually set one dump for ~10 tiles. After everything is cleaned, you can reclaim the dumped stone by pressing d-b-c, like mass-dumping.

Not needed.  The dwarves have no problem hauling 100+ items to a single garbage dump simultaneously (provided you have that many available dwarves, of course).  I usually have only one garbage dump available at a time, always single-tile.

[UberFuber]

If you don't mind the "quantum stockpile" exploit.
http://dwarffortresswiki.org/index.php/Minecart#Example
Pack all those stones into a single tile.
Enabling wheelbarrow on stockpile allows you to limit the number of haulers hauling stone around. They're also useful in making sure that your haulers haul those stone fast (hauling stone by hand is very, very slow).

[wierd]

DUMPING!?

Don't be ridiculous!

Word of the day: "cabochons"

Put those lazy jewelers to work! Make stone cabochons, and then encrust the living daylights out of everything.  Adds to net worth, makes legendary jewlers and gemcutters in short order, and gets rid of all that stone.

Dumping is just plain wasteful.

[Brilliand]

DUMPING!?

Don't be ridiculous!

Word of the day: "cabochons"

Put those lazy jewelers to work! Make stone cabochons, and then encrust the living daylights out of everything.  Adds to net worth, makes legendary jewlers and gemcutters in short order, and gets rid of all that stone.

Dumping is just plain wasteful.

Dumping's still good for getting it out of the way posthaste, when your mason/craftsdwarf/jeweler hasn't gotten to that particular rock yet.  I don't think anyone has recommended dumping into magma. 

[Aseaheru]

Why might anyone want to do that? you need way to many pots anyways. encrusted with cut stone.

[Extreme Boyheat]

Pots are boring, you need to get your logging industry going.

[Brilliand]

Pots are boring, you need to get your logging industry going.

Pots hold more than barrels...

[Drazinononda]

Pots are boring, you need to get your logging industry going.

Pots hold more than barrels...

Wood pots, then?

ROFL. OP was talking about the basics of moving stone. You now hauling............. you guys got newb punked.

Are you legitimately 3 years old?
*know
*... (... is the usual accepted "awkward pause" and wastes 1/4 of the space unlike the above mess)

Also, it may be a basic but he still has to learn it. Maybe you shouldn't be so condescending.

Given that he has the username of a twelve year old metalhead, I wouldn't expect  too much from him.

[Extreme Boyheat]

Pots are boring, you need to get your logging industry going.

Pots hold more than barrels...

Alcohol tastes better from barrels.

[Brilliand]

Pots are boring, you need to get your logging industry going.

Pots hold more than barrels...

Alcohol tastes better from barrels.

I don't think our dwarves actually know that. 

[FritzPL]

I always use a 1x1 dump area, and then d-b-d the entire corridor. If I need stone, I undump them and done.