Lydia took a 'bullet', well, a stone on the finger for us. I have not built a stone wall yet but it is the vision that brings me to your videos and you have taken me to school. Thanks a million.
Many years ago I had my godson’s staying for summer holidays. They wanted to help digging out the ramp and build drystone retaining walls. The older one was always practical and become an engineer but he didn’t get the hang of the walling. The younger one bookish and a bit lazy took to it like you’ve never seen it. They’re are all grown up and with Covid I haven’t seen them in four years but the wall is there as a daily reminder
Super interesting series. I do wish, though, that you dealt with the ends of the wall to make it more square. Hopefully another video will be made covering that subject.
@@drystone-tv Can't wait! I have a ton of huge square stones maybe 40x40cm some even 50cm, and I can't find any information on how to stack them properly, we will be building a house soon and want to use them but not just throw them around randomly, I honestly don't know what type of stone it is, but I will probably need 3-4 people to lift each stone and maybe even a wooden crane with pulleys 😅, your explanations really do help a lot with understanding how the stacking actually works.
This is an awesome series from the foundation video on up. The use of spray paint is brilliant. With the squared ends in mind, would it be better to build the corners up first then work towards the middle?
Keep the good work, thanks for sharing your experience and knowledge. I think drystone works can be a solution for being in the moment while building walls (could be therapeutic for some). Many things in life shift into the unconscious, I find drystone building hard to dissolve into the unconscious, why? Here is why: Choosing a particular stone for construction is a set of decisions, and reshaping it is another set of decisions. Randomness in stone shapes and the way they interact with each other demands the builder to become an artist rather than a stone layer, and here comes the therapeutic power.
Personally I don't find walling as therapeutic as soke people but i think that is because this is what I do for a living, so there is always the money earning element in the back of my mind. Sometimes though when the weather is good and you're out in the middle of nowhere with a nice wall to build it can be very peaceful! Lots of people do this for a hobby though and they find it very therapeutic. A chance to get out of the office and be in nature for a while.
Karl Marx on alienation “ und daher ist der Arbeiter bei dr Arbeit ausser sich und ausser der Arbeit bei sich.” William Morris and co turned this into Arts and Crafts. Beautiful full things well done in good time for a fair wage. Always knew that Westminster Palace was a nest of communist vipers. I’ve grown up in a working class family but a weirdly wired brain and a mild dose of socialism got me into med school and I thought I could escape the drudgery of piece work. How wrong could I possibly be, 90% of GP work is that, 10% is bliss. I’ve done 4 houses but as our friends says it’s different when you don’t have to do it for a living. Back to Karl Marx then.
Loving this,I’m doing my level 1 next year,hopefully to become a waller at some point,loads of brilliant tips thank you. Are there any videos about the brick hammers you use? Interested as I’m looking to get something to last me. Thanks again 👍👍😎
Good luck with the level 1 test. My advice would be to not waste time on the strip out, just get it down fast and use the maximum time for building! I've not done a video on hammers yet, one for the list! I get my hammers from www.stoneworkingtools.co.uk
what a great piece of knowledge there. i have watched the three parts and got a few questions for you. would be great if you could help me out. could i use this kind of dry wall as a stone foundation or is it more advisable to build it with lime mortar if i want to build a stone foundation? where i live people usally use sandstone for building foundations which i guess is a lot weaker than the solid stones in your video. is it possible to use sandstone for dry walling?
The stone I'm using in this video is a type of sandstone called gritstone. I think it would be possible to build a foundation with dry stone but it might make sense to use a hydraulic lime mortar that way the wall would be completely filled with no air pockets in it.
I got done for copyright on this video cos of the music so I ran the video through a TH-cam programme to delete the music. It might have deleted some audio too annoyingly
I don't know if it's the stone that's shit or it's me. I think it's limestone that i'm using. But every stone is the weirdest shape and different depths. I'm reusing the stone from a 1700 welsh cottage that is having renovation and rejigging work done. The original back wall has been removed to add an extension, and i'm using the stone to build a garden wall. But so far it's been a right headache trying to get the stones even. Your wall looks lovely and even. Thank you for the videos. It's a steep learning curve! 🙏🏼
Yeah rough limestone is a different ball game to this and will be a totally different look so don't worry if it's not looking very flat! I've done another video on how to use rough stone and I'm guessing your stone type is rougher still. When I'm walling rough stone I don't really use a hammer that much, it's all about finding the weird shape to fill the weird hole that another stone has left. The key thing is just crossing joints and walling the stones length in.
@@drystone-tv Great advise. Yes length in is what I need to do. They did managed to build a house with the stone 300 years ago! Just watched your recommended vid. Going to get creative now. It's a beautiful coloured stone, creamy yellow white and beige from a quarry just over the hill. Many Thanks. ps Love your dog!
I think I remember the young lady in the cap and blue jacket from HMP Holloway. Dorothy, its me Ethel! Why are you building that wall in the middle of a track?
Lydia took a 'bullet', well, a stone on the finger for us. I have not built a stone wall yet but it is the vision that brings me to your videos and you have taken me to school. Thanks a million.
Many years ago I had my godson’s staying for summer holidays. They wanted to help digging out the ramp and build drystone retaining walls. The older one was always practical and become an engineer but he didn’t get the hang of the walling. The younger one bookish and a bit lazy took to it like you’ve never seen it. They’re are all grown up and with Covid I haven’t seen them in four years but the wall is there as a daily reminder
Again, a great video. At 6:35 the sound disappeared.
These are crazy satisfying to watch and make me want to try my hand at it. Need to look up some brick hammers now
great illustration of the internal joint of the wall, thanks for the videos
Thank you for another great video. Hope to see you soon!
Super interesting series. I do wish, though, that you dealt with the ends of the wall to make it more square. Hopefully another video will be made covering that subject.
Yeah , once I've finished covering the basics, building a wall end will be one of the first videos I do. Thanks for watching !
@@drystone-tv Can't wait! I have a ton of huge square stones maybe 40x40cm some even 50cm, and I can't find any information on how to stack them properly, we will be building a house soon and want to use them but not just throw them around randomly, I honestly don't know what type of stone it is, but I will probably need 3-4 people to lift each stone and maybe even a wooden crane with pulleys 😅, your explanations really do help a lot with understanding how the stacking actually works.
This is an awesome series from the foundation video on up. The use of spray paint is brilliant. With the squared ends in mind, would it be better to build the corners up first then work towards the middle?
If some body or animal bush the Dry stone wall is it collapsed
Keep the good work, thanks for sharing your experience and knowledge.
I think drystone works can be a solution for being in the moment while building walls (could be therapeutic for some). Many things in life shift into the unconscious, I find drystone building hard to dissolve into the unconscious, why?
Here is why: Choosing a particular stone for construction is a set of decisions, and reshaping it is another set of decisions. Randomness in stone shapes and the way they interact with each other demands the builder to become an artist rather than a stone layer, and here comes the therapeutic power.
Personally I don't find walling as therapeutic as soke people but i think that is because this is what I do for a living, so there is always the money earning element in the back of my mind.
Sometimes though when the weather is good and you're out in the middle of nowhere with a nice wall to build it can be very peaceful!
Lots of people do this for a hobby though and they find it very therapeutic. A chance to get out of the office and be in nature for a while.
Karl Marx on alienation “ und daher ist der Arbeiter bei dr Arbeit ausser sich und ausser der Arbeit bei sich.”
William Morris and co turned this into Arts and Crafts. Beautiful full things well done in good time for a fair wage. Always knew that Westminster Palace was a nest of communist vipers. I’ve grown up in a working class family but a weirdly wired brain and a mild dose of socialism got me into med school and I thought I could escape the drudgery of piece work. How wrong could I possibly be, 90% of GP work is that, 10% is bliss. I’ve done 4 houses but as our friends says it’s different when you don’t have to do it for a living.
Back to Karl Marx then.
Loving this,I’m doing my level 1 next year,hopefully to become a waller at some point,loads of brilliant tips thank you.
Are there any videos about the brick hammers you use?
Interested as I’m looking to get something to last me.
Thanks again 👍👍😎
Good luck with the level 1 test. My advice would be to not waste time on the strip out, just get it down fast and use the maximum time for building! I've not done a video on hammers yet, one for the list! I get my hammers from www.stoneworkingtools.co.uk
Do you explain how to setup the string in any of your videos?
Next on my list is how to set up the frames and use strings. !
I love the dog brings over the ball maybe for a play, but these guys are so serious. lol.
haha!
what a great piece of knowledge there. i have watched the three parts and got a few questions for you. would be great if you could help me out. could i use this kind of dry wall as a stone foundation or is it more advisable to build it with lime mortar if i want to build a stone foundation? where i live people usally use sandstone for building foundations which i guess is a lot weaker than the solid stones in your video. is it possible to use sandstone for dry walling?
The stone I'm using in this video is a type of sandstone called gritstone. I think it would be possible to build a foundation with dry stone but it might make sense to use a hydraulic lime mortar that way the wall would be completely filled with no air pockets in it.
Is it just my device (apple phone) or was the sound muted towards the end of this video.
Still another great video though
I got done for copyright on this video cos of the music so I ran the video through a TH-cam programme to delete the music. It might have deleted some audio too annoyingly
Do you live in an area where the rocks tend to be flat like that? What do you do if you’re mostly dealing with more abstractly shaped rocks?
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I don't know if it's the stone that's shit or it's me. I think it's limestone that i'm using. But every stone is the weirdest shape and different depths. I'm reusing the stone from a 1700 welsh cottage that is having renovation and rejigging work done. The original back wall has been removed to add an extension, and i'm using the stone to build a garden wall. But so far it's been a right headache trying to get the stones even. Your wall looks lovely and even. Thank you for the videos. It's a steep learning curve! 🙏🏼
Yeah rough limestone is a different ball game to this and will be a totally different look so don't worry if it's not looking very flat! I've done another video on how to use rough stone and I'm guessing your stone type is rougher still. When I'm walling rough stone I don't really use a hammer that much, it's all about finding the weird shape to fill the weird hole that another stone has left. The key thing is just crossing joints and walling the stones length in.
@@drystone-tv Great advise. Yes length in is what I need to do. They did managed to build a house with the stone 300 years ago! Just watched your recommended vid. Going to get creative now. It's a beautiful coloured stone, creamy yellow white and beige from a quarry just over the hill. Many Thanks. ps Love your dog!
I think I remember the young lady in the cap and blue jacket from HMP Holloway. Dorothy, its me Ethel! Why are you building that wall in the middle of a track?
Sound off at the end
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