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Trying to improve my stonemasonry skills. I’m from Ireland but would love to come work for you for a few days. I’ve done a lot of dry walls with granite and some limestone. Love the videos 👍

Thanks for a great video, much respect for the master

Beautiful work, i'd love to see a longer video on this job if you have the footage!

PLEASE figure out how to export stereo audio for us headphones fans. It's awful...

DIY gardener here. Mostly interested in building some decorative walls to separate spaces. However, my choices for stones are either pay a fortune to a commercial source or use what I can find which is mostly small and poor quality. Do you have any advice concerning the smallest stones that should be used in a wall 3-4 feet high?

yes mate! more of this! its great!

Stonemasons shouldn't work with logs

What was the purpose of the rebar? Was there a string attached to it to measure the decreasing diameter of each course as you built the structure?

That is Very Cool,Great Job Merry Christmas DryStone!!!

Somebody please play ball with the dog..

Super helpful video, love the niche info and hard to find information, I've been wanting to make some batter frames but have struggled to find the density of info in this video than in multiple books. thanks!

Just started a walling job at my home and struggling over many of the things you raised. Much appreciated the many nuggets of good information you presented!

Incredible work. Would your crew take a trip to the USA for a week?

Appreciate the detailed lesson

That the size of hearting should be “generally” proportional to the decreasing width of the wall is an excellent point. Following a visit to Northern England in May, and taking a dry stone wall workshop in July, I built my first dry stone wall this autumn in Montreal with a Level II waller. What the experience taught me is that walling is such a peacefully contemplative and meditative exercise. Thanks for the content!

The greatest disadvantage with using old fashioned wooden frames is that you cannot use them in a gap as the bottom crossmember stops you building the foundations. Good Vid.

Need to send you a picture of our frame. I got it passed on to myself be the old boy I used to work with it’s made of angle iron stands a 4’6” high. has a bar across where the middle troughs go & a bar for the top troughs go. We have continuous trough bands up here. There’s also an additional bar half way across the top of the frame that we gage the top stones on. The bars are bolted so the frame can be pushed to alter the batter for say a retaining wall or if it’s on a hill side. Works brilliantly for us. The old boy said after a life time of shite he made it perfect! 😂

Using the metal frame that you have, add another bar to the bottom, drill holes in the top and bottom bars every inch or half inch, then use hoist ring swivels to connect the bars to the legs. Now you have a fully adjustable frame. Add a third leg to the center of the top bar and you no longer need to pound the frame into the ground. Might be a little pricey to make if you only use it once but if you use it constantly then it should be fine.

Harry here in Toronto. I took my first job as a professional stone mason's assistant at age 69. This channel was an important learning source that made this achievement possible. Thanks for your focus and great information.

Great stuff thanks for this .

Great info here! Would love to see more like this

Rhubarb says: stopp blabbering about boring stones and pass that stick - now will you! 😄

Like the little sculptures on the desk as well

Great video!

I’m all here for niche, information heavy! ETA: do another one on mortar, and another one on using fill in the middle.

Very interesting video, and good to think about the fundamentals rather than just sticking to a fixed set of rules

Thanks! This kind of fundamental knowledge is really useful for us hobbyists / beginners. Good stuff as always!

Extremely useful as not covered on training courses

Good information, very well explained. Thanks

Great tips 👌 Keep em coming 😊

Thank you for sharing your knowledge, love your craftsmanship. Looking forward to part 1 Rhubarb, Rhubarb, Rhubarb ❤

It's great someone is doing this..keep at it.. taught many many young lads to dyke...from the 1980's onwards..we bought a 4 tonne Mitsubishi MS04M a life and back saver.. Rebar is the best plus they spring, thin, the line can be inside or outside, ideal for curves, use zip ties to connect... never ever use a wooden frame... The batter is directly related to the type of stone to be used as you mentioned. Minimum top width 300mm foundations 600mm x 1000mm high plus copes....any wall under that is decorative, garden walling so must use weak 8:1 mix mortar with the filling stone.. One important point that few understand.. always us the heaviest, largest stone for coping..thisnweight is critical to keep a field, hill, mountain wall together to 100's of years.. Built walls from Loch Fyne to Shetland ....😂... always with an excavator to make the lads life easier... Great channel..

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i Kno IM. spent about 6yrs in BTCV too. Great time learned all the old des , ran holidays , never got a bloody paid job tho

God, I love a beautiful rock wall. You've done fantastic work! I think I would've loved to build rock walls because I like to work alone/independently or maybe at most with one other person. I like to do skilled work with my hands in or outdoors (as I did before retiring). I might try to make a small wall project in my garden. I do some artwork nowadays & I'm always making multimedia art which inevitably includes a rock wall somewhere in the piece. Thanks for this video. 🩷

It aint dieing till im gone atleast 💪⚒️

The brook back in my native Derbyshire has been polluted over the years, the Hunt was one of the offenders, spewing out crap from their abattoir. The farm next door was also a major polluter, not to mention the outflows from the various septic systems. Lost count the number of times I’ve been sick from the water there. Finally it’s showing signs of improvement, but there’s very little life to expand from. Locals used to get upset with me snitching on them, but what’s right is right 👌 Stunning craftsmanship 🫡🫡🫡

Proper man’s work 👍

Master!

"Bonjour !" (Oh alreight then..."Ey up !"). As a West Riding of Yorkshire-man, of some seventy Summers, sitting here in Central France, on a cold December night, whilst suppin' a brew, I thought I'd watch a couple of videos of proper stonemasonry, and I wasn't disappointed !!! Not only was it a very informative presentation of technique, from a man who so obviously knows his trade, but knows how to express himself fluently (of course, with those "warm" rounded vowels of a dialect that is, and will remain, dear to my heart). Good on thee lad, and Thank you! In the 1960s I did my 3-year art studies (1-year of sculpture, which included stone carving, I continued with it for a while afterwards), then a couple of jobs of stone-cutting/masonry, until "Life" changed direction, but the feel of holding a stone "punch" and a well-balanced hammer still rings in my memories. Even my family name has its origins in the "trade" ! You can probably guess it. Thank you again. Best Wishes to you and to those following in your stone chippings.

Hi. Is there a specific incline angle from bottom to the top that you have to follow? Thanks!

Hi. So there is no need to bury the stones underground in laying the foundation? Thanks!

Sound advice!

Good skills mate

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F'n incredible for 6 days! Great video, hope they paid u well.

Really nice video. Love the wall. Just wondering though, why those walls are so tall?

My new, favorite channel! ✅💯💪

Have anyone ever heard of wallers from north of england called joe Gough or sam pig? Sam had a wee dog

To a lay person like me who can only stare in wonder at the functional work of art that is a professionpally executed and well presented dry stone wall, this series your'e doing of "legends" is a fantastic concept. So thank you and please keep it going. It is not overstating the case that our posterity requires the insights of people such as yourselves and your subjects for the sake of history and learning in how our landscapes were enhanced for human prosperity. Just saying.