I appreciate that the editor didn't remove the first rock failing to properly split. Sometimes the piece has internal faults that render the piece unusable or make it significantly harder to shape. Most of these shows edit out the failures but I think it's important to show what can sometimes happen so people that are watching the videos for educational purposes and planning to copy the technique at home understand that it can happen and don't get discouraged.
Yea mate some stones will have fault lines through them that no matter what side or way you break it from it will follow that fault line or sediment line or whatever is wrong with the stone, just gotta crack it and see
Totally agree! I have a book on Stone masons and the author frequently highlighted how masons are often very patient. Or, at least the impatient ones don't last long!
Was digging holes for a deck and had 3 huge rocks in the holes, thought I was screwed since my back yard is fenced in. Was reluctant to try this but figured id give it a shot. 30 bucks for the wedges and had to rent a hammer drill, holy crap it works. A few hours and the rocks were small enough to lift out. Thanks for the video saved me from ripping down my fence for a backhoe. Would definately recomend doing if needed. 😃
As an archaeologist who often marvels at the great stonework of old, this was incredibly fascinating to watch. I also have a ton of respect for those people now. Carbide. Damn. If I'd shown up to a Neolithic settlement with one of those things, I probably could have bought the place with it.
Six months later, how do you value the time watching the video? :) I find learning odd things you never even thought of learning to be very very good for your ability to think and especially think critically. That said.. an essay is a one time opportunity.
glad you showed the vagaries of cutting stone and discussing it honestly... Most tv shows skip all the inconveniences and only show the great results... Meanwhile the rest of us are still needing the information that 25 years of skill brings to the job... What do you do when a rock breaks badly? Well, he said "cut my losses and get a different stone"... Now I don't feel so bad...
+Ralph Marshall Honestly that was my favorite part of the episode. Most shows would of edited that out and we would of thought this master stone cutter got everything perfect.
I agree. Never thought I would laugh watching someone cut a rock in half. :-P Reminded me of something my Dad would say, except this guy did not cuss. Also liked the "Oh well. Moving on" attitude.
@@brusombear3823 the holes don't go all the way through, even if they did you wouldn't be able to pound the wedges and shims all the way through. Once you get a bad break you just tap the wedges side to side until they loosen up.
Thank you I needed this...I was having a hard time breaking open stones when searching for fossils. Today was SO much easier, I brought back about 5 times as much fossiliferous stone.
This is the kind of quality production/presentation that I miss about shows that are actually produced. On a strict TH-cam diet, it’s rare that I come across good stuff like this.
I stumbled onto this video- and this is the most interesting video! How fascinating this is! I had no idea it took so much skill- so much talent. I will now APPRECIATE this hard work whenever I see it. Thank you so much for sharing! 😍
Stone masons are true artists that can make a beautiful wall that will last for generations. A wall of natural rock in a garden of roses really makes for a beautiful setting.
yup, back button shows I am here from spiders and a fly in a vacuum chamber, and before that was high-speed water vapor nucleation video......guess it's just one of those days!
Thank You so Much....A Stone Mason Craft is such a needed but gradually forgotten skill....Walls & structures built this way will never be mimic by a drone in my life time....Human learned Skill is so Amazing....
While traveling in India I watched masons carve statues with those exact tools. I was especially impressed by the tool with multiple pointed faces. They used that tool for the final shaping.
When I am field dressing stone, I cut the bottom 12" of 55gal barrel and with 10" of sand or fines on the bottom and position it on a mud board stand for working at waist height. When dressing the stone you produce spalls you can use as shims when setting the stones in place.
Damn, that's so cool! I have to build some piers with field and flat stones. Every time I watch videos like these it gets more interesting. And expensive! :)
Need the piers for a cabin. Was going to do something else but my big brother convinced me to do the stone thing. I thought he was nuts. Now I think I was nuts for not thinking about it. So cool, now I can't wait to get started!
I'm watching this after spending the last 8 hours drilling through a commercial building brick wall to run electrical service conduit! Nothing like a coring bit to make your day just fly by! LOL!
Hobby projects work like this: Chill out, cut one stone in half, drink a beer, do the same tomorrow. I had a neighbour who drilled in the walls for 10 minutes after work every day for half a year; he could have rented a good hilti drill and got it done in a weekend, whatever the fuck he was doing; but instead, he had some toy drill and drilled 5 millimetres per day instead.
Stone changes in its density from soft lime stone to hard marble. They all have their tricks. I saw a lot of stone work in my days and they used the old Egyptian style, They drilled the holes deep enough and then they introduce wood and a steel wedge, They hammer it down tight and then they put water in the hole to wet the wood which will expand and the next day , the stone separates nicely. I would say that if he drilled deep enough in his first stone he would have got it right straight away. t 6:49 I felt that having a heavy chisel and a light hammer meant that the inertia of rest of the chisel was rather high and so the impulse on the stone would be reduced, I prefer to use a light chisel and a heavier hammer so that the impulse will not be absorbed by the inertia of the chisel and I feel that I can have better control on the situation. An interesting activity in hard stone work is to make a flat surface out of an irregular one. What I do is to grind the chisel in an unsymmetrical manner and according to the situation where I need the chisel to dig in or dig out, I rotate the chisel accordingly. When digging in the chisel takes deep lumps off while when digging out it takes surface lumps off. It is all fascinating. They tell me that this technique of unsymmetrical chisel or knife grinding/sharpening is used by right hand or left hand butchers as a left handed butcher needs a left handed knife while a right handed butcher needs a right handed knife, otherwise one cannot cut thin slices of ham !! I just wonder how many people working in kitchens know that?
It's amazing to see the size of the stones used on the pyramids and the quality of the fit. What makes it all the more amazing is that it was all done using the technique you describe without a power tool in sight.
Especially since you have all the coke fiends who look down on stoners. To each their own I say, if they like to party that much that's good for them but I;d rather chill in the sun with a good smoke.
I worked for the City of Vancouver Sewers Department on a large 25 man construction crew back in the mid-1970s I was a labour and did every job while I was there, I was the pad man and worked with the excavator and the operator while we were digging out the ditch we would on occasion hit a massive bolder .. We would drill our holes using a hundred-pound air hammer drill and we would put in plugs and feathers same as shown here but bigger .and an 8-pound sledgehammer .we split off just enough to dig the ditch .. On ocation, we also called in a blaster ..
+Jessica Phar It actually does make a cleaner cut, than a saw, as well as faster. A saw will leave very unnatural scratch lines in the face of the stone. Which are not very attractive. And would take hours of polishing to remove the marks from a single stone. If this wasn't the best way to do it, especially in the field. Then they wouldn't still be using this method.
In ancient days different shaped rock tools with strength harder than the stone being worked could produce the same effects using this methodology. This video has a far greater potential audience.
Maximus i got here trying to discover the purpose of the pyramids of Giza is lmao how i got here and why i finished it is a mystery greater than that of the pyramid
My dad was an old Italian stone mason. He taught me how to read the grain and cut stone with a stone hammer and chisel when I was just a teenager. It’s a dying trade for sure.
@@samuelmandarelli2645 "will die" and "its a shame" i get what your saying, but take heart.. lookup Guédelon Castle.. a place approx 200km south of paris.. a project started in '97.. 100% authentic build of a medieval castle.. not fake hack 'look alike' facsimile... no, its genuine... and its beautiful.. a masons wet dream.. so much work
I appreciate them not editing out the mishap with the first rock. Real world stuff.
I appreciate that the editor didn't remove the first rock failing to properly split. Sometimes the piece has internal faults that render the piece unusable or make it significantly harder to shape. Most of these shows edit out the failures but I think it's important to show what can sometimes happen so people that are watching the videos for educational purposes and planning to copy the technique at home understand that it can happen and don't get discouraged.
Didn't we notice that there were 5 holes in the 2nd stone, instead of 4 in the failed effort?
Thanks for showing when it doesn't work. Really glad to see that sometimes you need to start over with another rock.
Yea mate some stones will have fault lines through them that no matter what side or way you break it from it will follow that fault line or sediment line or whatever is wrong with the stone, just gotta crack it and see
Totally agree! I have a book on Stone masons and the author frequently highlighted how masons are often very patient. Or, at least the impatient ones don't last long!
Yes, great that they showed a 'flaw', just as important to learn from!
I thought you were talking about Earth..
Awesome video.I really enjoyed it.
Was digging holes for a deck and had 3 huge rocks in the holes, thought I was screwed since my back yard is fenced in. Was reluctant to try this but figured id give it a shot. 30 bucks for the wedges and had to rent a hammer drill, holy crap it works. A few hours and the rocks were small enough to lift out. Thanks for the video saved me from ripping down my fence for a backhoe. Would definately recomend doing if needed. 😃
As an archaeologist who often marvels at the great stonework of old, this was incredibly fascinating to watch. I also have a ton of respect for those people now. Carbide. Damn. If I'd shown up to a Neolithic settlement with one of those things, I probably could have bought the place with it.
I have an english essay due tomorrow thankfully i know how to cut a rock in half
And this could help you in becoming a stonemason
OMG hahaha, I have an essay for English comp due tomorrow, and I ended up watching this for no reason.
Six months later, how do you value the time watching the video? :) I find learning odd things you never even thought of learning to be very very good for your ability to think and especially think critically. That said.. an essay is a one time opportunity.
haw ta cut rawk
nickNcar ii
glad you showed the vagaries of cutting stone and discussing it honestly... Most tv shows skip all the inconveniences and only show the great results... Meanwhile the rest of us are still needing the information that 25 years of skill brings to the job... What do you do when a rock breaks badly? Well, he said "cut my losses and get a different stone"... Now I don't feel so bad...
+Ralph Marshall Honestly that was my favorite part of the episode. Most shows would of edited that out and we would of thought this master stone cutter got everything perfect.
I agree. Never thought I would laugh watching someone cut a rock in half. :-P Reminded me of something my Dad would say, except this guy did not cuss. Also liked the "Oh well. Moving on" attitude.
i would like to see them getting the shims and wedges out, just pound them threw i guess?
@@brusombear3823 the holes don't go all the way through, even if they did you wouldn't be able to pound the wedges and shims all the way through. Once you get a bad break you just tap the wedges side to side until they loosen up.
👍
A good down to earth demonstration on how to create such noble structures using stone. Well done
Thank you I needed this...I was having a hard time breaking open stones when searching for fossils. Today was SO much easier, I brought back about 5 times as much fossiliferous stone.
I've been in the trades as a carpenter for twenty year's and have always admired true stone masons. Having said that I hate shaking their hands.
Worse than machinists or mechanics?
I studied stonework for 3 years in college and I watching this video helps me remember some of the things that I learned during that time.
MrEdJepson Penn State correctional?
This is the kind of quality production/presentation that I miss about shows that are actually produced. On a strict TH-cam diet, it’s rare that I come across good stuff like this.
Old cat had skills and humility, a nice combo. Cheers.
There are just some people who are brilliant in what they do. You are one of them!
The fact that the guy looks precisely like a modern-day mining dwarf makes me very happy.
Definition of ironic methinks.
Chai 🤣 rofl
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Of all the stuff I have watched today.. this, was the most interesting.
I like that they left in a mess up to show its not "as easy as them youtube videos". We need more of that.
error is a key part of success
Are you sexually harassing me?
HUGH MUNGUS WOT
WHAT IS YOUR NAME
HOW DARE YOU!
The man in the hat educating us is so lovely. You're a great teacher.
"I'm not that good yet."
"YET?!"
The natural, good-natured humor in TOH videos is really what sets them apart.
This video is therapeutic to watch. Also, the skill is impressive. Thank you displaying your talent and sharing your knowledge.
I'm getting into stone masonry and it's good to see the tools and methods used. Thanks!
How it's been?
Probably one of the coolest short video's I've ever seen
I stumbled onto this video- and this is the most interesting video! How fascinating this is! I had no idea it took so much skill- so much talent. I will now APPRECIATE this hard work whenever I see it. Thank you so much for sharing! 😍
Its great to see Roger again. And, its good to see just what I need for managing my rocks with hand tools. Thanks fellas.
John in Bethel, Missouri.
this video rocks
get out.
That was puntastic
delet your account
🤣
Ba-dum-tssss!!!
this is so useful! I cut and shape stones in my backyard ALL THE TIME now! thanks guys!
so this is what my weekends have come down to..... 😩
Haha same
Lol
LMAO!!
Good taste!!
I learn how to shape stones in between faps.
Wow what a great compilation of common scenarios when stone working! Well done!
Never gonna cut stones in a thousand years, but i'm watching this "how to" video.
I know, right?
dattebayo
Same here :-D... it's somehow interesting
:)
use an ANGLE GRINDER WITH DIAMOND DISK
this is one of the best videos on UT regarding stone masonry for the novice Randy is a good teacher and spokesperson for trow and holden.
those tools haven't seen much use! thankyou for making a how to video, great for people who have never worked stone before as a starting point.
Stone masons are true artists that can make a beautiful wall that will last for generations. A wall of natural rock in a garden of roses really makes for a beautiful setting.
I don't quite know how I landed on this video, but I watched it all.
Same here
yep Same here
Guilty as well
Very satisfying and also instructional!
yup, back button shows I am here from spiders and a fly in a vacuum chamber, and before that was high-speed water vapor nucleation video......guess it's just one of those days!
Thank You so Much....A Stone Mason Craft is such a needed but gradually forgotten skill....Walls & structures built this way will never be mimic by a drone in my life time....Human learned Skill is so Amazing....
This mason is a master!
Amazing video. I’m currently building a stone wall and have some stone that need shaping. How did TH-cam know I needed this video…
Really useful videos, i rarely say something possitive, but when its'good it's good
i knew you wasnt dead. everyone called me crazy but i knew i wasnt
this is the best day of my life!!!! my 2 heros are actually talking to me!!!!!
What a time to be alive
Amazing art and tools. It seems that you are cutting paneer in exact size for a dinner. Hats off
I remember seeing this show when I was a kid. The nostalgia! lol
I feel so at peace when I watch these types of videos.
You are not so much at piece(s) as the stones!
(Pah-dum-pshh)
jist imagine doing it for a living
That guy has a great job. Such a peaceful craft.
+nieze
Yes it is...!!!...and very rewarding...
definitely
Peaceful. Lol. Come to work with me for a day. You would leave before 9.
it was fun watching this. Both interviewer and interviewee are good talented men.
"Now I can use that for my wall, for sure."
Don't let Trump hear about this.
Rumky i read your comment right when he said that
I love you chemist XD
Junior Udo-Okon Everybody loves me, I'm the real Jepus Christ.
TheWanderingChemist Repus? :s
Great video brings back memories did a lot of stone and stone repairs up in northeastern Pennsylvania when I was younger
You'll never know when you need to cut a stone. This vid was very helpful for the future!!
While traveling in India I watched masons carve statues with those exact tools. I was especially impressed by the tool with multiple pointed faces. They used that tool for the final shaping.
Great teacher patience and the right tools for the right job
me: im going to sleep early today!
me at 1:54 am watching this video
This must be one of those recommended videos designed to catch your attention and keep you up late at night.
Same here, it's 3:47 am now.
sa
Sup !
2:39 am here
1:13 lol
When I am field dressing stone, I cut the bottom 12" of 55gal barrel and with 10" of sand or fines on the bottom and position it on a mud board stand for working at waist height. When dressing the stone you produce spalls you can use as shims when setting the stones in place.
Something surprisingly pleasant about this video. Loved it!
Great video - thanks. Simple, and clear (and obviously much harder to do than you make it look!
This job rocks!
why am I watching this at 3 am
Same. Wtf
You're both stoned and Google knows it.
It's 4:30 am and it was in my recommended... Wtf
You're clock is 10min fast.
haha 12:24 for me lol stupid TH-cam algorithm
Hands down,this was my favorite TOH video ever. Thank you.
handy tip:if you wanna save time watch videos like this in 1.5 speed :P
This is oddly the most fascinating video ever.
Looks good randy, let me just hold this so it doesn't tip over. With simple tools...
yeah twice
how can people dislike this video :( this is old technology at its finest!!!
Only people who can't swing a hammer straight would thumbs down this video.
Damn, that's so cool! I have to build some piers with field and flat stones. Every time I watch videos like these it gets more interesting. And expensive! :)
Need the piers for a cabin. Was going to do something else but my big brother convinced me to do the stone thing. I thought he was nuts. Now I think I was nuts for not thinking about it. So cool, now I can't wait to get started!
I'm watching this after spending the last 8 hours drilling through a commercial building brick wall to run electrical service conduit! Nothing like a coring bit to make your day just fly by! LOL!
This guys shaped MANY rocks to get so exact
😎👍Thanks for sharing..
it's almost 5 am and im enjoying watching him cutting rocks
9:58 "Sits pretty good now" still wobbles lol
I’ve never been so hyped about breaking rocks.
dude is obsessed with putting all the rocks into his wall
Broken ones??????
That's the kind of job I've always wanted to do...and finally doing it. Thank you Gents.
Something tells me that this might be more difficult than you're making it look. Very impressive!
just patience, attention to detail and the willingnes to fail. like any skill.
I work with those type of chisels all the time and those chills are brand spanking new
Happy New Year to you and your family. Thank you for your videos and keeping old skills, ingenuity and artistry all a part of your adventure.
this is my first time seeing this but these guys work off of each other in a great way hahah
I got the need to put every single fucking stone I see into my wall.
I can't believe how fascinated i was during this video.
Stoners👍😎
Safety glasses...👍check
Cannabis ✓
Good learning skills. I know how to cut stones now thanks!
Dont know why i watched this, but i sure liked it =)
Am I the only one who found that satisfying?
i just came back to this video to give it thumb up 👍
Hobby projects work like this: Chill out, cut one stone in half, drink a beer, do the same tomorrow.
I had a neighbour who drilled in the walls for 10 minutes after work every day for half a year; he could have rented a good hilti drill and got it done in a weekend, whatever the fuck he was doing; but instead, he had some toy drill and drilled 5 millimetres per day instead.
Wonderful video. Thanks to both of them. 🎉
Tight. I'm ready for my Stonemason Master ring now.
It's nearly midnight... who knew stone cutting could be so interesting
Stone changes in its density from soft lime stone to hard marble. They all have their tricks. I saw a lot of stone work in my days and they used the old Egyptian style, They drilled the holes deep enough and then they introduce wood and a steel wedge, They hammer it down tight and then they put water in the hole to wet the wood which will expand and the next day , the stone separates nicely.
I would say that if he drilled deep enough in his first stone he would have got it right straight away. t 6:49 I felt that having a heavy chisel and a light hammer meant that the inertia of rest of the chisel was rather high and so the impulse on the stone would be reduced, I prefer to use a light chisel and a heavier hammer so that the impulse will not be absorbed by the inertia of the chisel and I feel that I can have better control on the situation. An interesting activity in hard stone work is to make a flat surface out of an irregular one. What I do is to grind the chisel in an unsymmetrical manner and according to the situation where I need the chisel to dig in or dig out, I rotate the chisel accordingly. When digging in the chisel takes deep lumps off while when digging out it takes surface lumps off. It is all fascinating.
They tell me that this technique of unsymmetrical chisel or knife grinding/sharpening is used by right hand or left hand butchers as a left handed butcher needs a left handed knife while a right handed butcher needs a right handed knife, otherwise one cannot cut thin slices of ham !! I just wonder how many people working in kitchens know that?
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It's amazing to see the size of the stones used on the pyramids and the quality of the fit. What makes it all the more amazing is that it was all done using the technique you describe without a power tool in sight.
Badri chams. I looked this up but I a message appears on my screen saying that this is no longer available.
So satisfying to watch
Got stoned while I watched this, seemed appropriate.
Stoners have to hold together, right? :)
same here :)
Especially since you have all the coke fiends who look down on stoners. To each their own I say, if they like to party that much that's good for them but I;d rather chill in the sun with a good smoke.
Go Away Coke friends??? Nope, thanks... I do not trust those types. :)
I worked for the City of Vancouver Sewers Department on a large 25 man construction crew back in the mid-1970s
I was a labour and did every job while I was there, I was the pad man and worked with the excavator and the operator
while we were digging out the ditch we would on occasion hit a massive bolder ..
We would drill our holes using a hundred-pound air hammer drill and we would put in plugs and feathers same as shown here but bigger .and an 8-pound sledgehammer .we split off just enough to dig the ditch ..
On ocation, we also called in a blaster ..
time to build a castle! anybody like to join me?
Will we live as a commune ?After all we all can claim it to be ours. If so, no thanks.
Bartman tools sure, stones? we pay for dirt and stones?
Can i grief your castle like they do in Minecraft?
thats what trump said heheheh
HenrikGMZ castle, not a wall
Im soo glad youtube put this in my suggestion box
this will fit nice on MY WALL
*rock wobble intensifies as camera zooms out quickly*
Awa!
Plug & Feathers in England. Nice to see 'em still being used.
A true pro.
a vanishing art hand craft work ... when power goes out ... knowing these old hand crafts WILL save your life
Why was this recommend and why did I watch the whole video? I will never be able to answer those questions
i can, do you want an honest answer?
Mikail Elchanovanich yes.. yes we do
the perseverance they displayed by moving onto another rock was astounding
aw yes, that makes so much sense. it makes such a cleaner cut.
Hot
+Jessica Phar It actually does make a cleaner cut, than a saw, as well as faster. A saw will leave very unnatural scratch lines in the face of the stone. Which are not very attractive. And would take hours of polishing to remove the marks from a single stone.
If this wasn't the best way to do it, especially in the field. Then they wouldn't still be using this method.
@Pahr
If I show you how to make a sandwich would that make sense to you
Fuller Crane I hardly believe you could "show me" anything when it comes to sandwiches when mine are fantastic, thank you.
In ancient days different shaped rock tools with strength harder than the stone being worked could produce the same effects using this methodology. This video has a far greater potential audience.
They used quartz.. and also placed dry wood in cracks and then added water so it swelled
"You don't want to overwork your tool or your stone." Lmao
It's about to maghrib prayer and I watch this guys, thanks TH-cam
Everyone is questioning why they're watching this, and i'm just sitting here wondering how i got here in the first place.
Maximus i got here trying to discover the purpose of the pyramids of Giza is lmao how i got here and why i finished it is a mystery greater than that of the pyramid
I’m sat here wondering why I’m reading all these comments
This is actually kinda interesting. You always learn something new in youtube :D
i just like the "That will fit right in mah whal" every time he cuts a stone.
My dad was an old Italian stone mason. He taught me how to read the grain and cut stone with a stone hammer and chisel when I was just a teenager. It’s a dying trade for sure.
save his tools...
unless he already sold them to a bunch of apprentices
@@kwazhims3lf
He’s 88 years old. His stone mason days are long behind him. These trades will pass with his generation. It’s truly a shame.
@@samuelmandarelli2645 "will die" and "its a shame"
i get what your saying, but take heart.. lookup Guédelon Castle..
a place approx 200km south of paris.. a project started in '97.. 100% authentic build of a medieval castle.. not fake hack 'look alike' facsimile... no, its genuine... and its beautiful.. a masons wet dream.. so much work