This is our wall. Danny is very modest - not everyone can do it, it requires a great amount of skill. No doubt, this video will improve anyone's skills but don't be deceived, like all experts, Danny makes hard things look easy. This wall is a work of art. Well done Danny and Callum!
When we had building boom here used to get 50 euro a lineal mt working with a canarian master stone Mason the geezer is the best i ever seen an artist happy days
I came across your channel while looking for lime mortar joints information. Now, I'm learning how walls are built even though I'm not planning to build any 😆. Your wide knowledge and skills are really interesting and a pleasure to watch and listen to. Thanks a lot for sharing this! Cheers from Belgium
Enjoyed your video some great advice,1 point I would make about the throughstones,I wouldn't advice people to hammer or chisel them flush,surely that would damage the building around them,best left and let the wall settle naturally,All the Best,ex drystone waller,Ally
Hi Ally, thanks for the comment. I tend to finish the throughs flush with the stone face as livestock and collie puppies tend to vault off the "kneebangers" and over the wall. A good quality tungsten chisel and the surrounding walling stays sound.
Morning bud have been watching lots of these videos the best yet you explain it perfectly without music and sensless speeding up like a speedy Gonzalez cartoon I work the stone volcanic stone in the canaries shaping with lump hammer we also do double side half a meter fill with concrete where exactly you from bud lived in lancashire st Anne's like your graft
Very well put up Danny. My Father put up several walls around our house back in the 1970's. The walls were to keep the soil from migrating into the street. The walls were backed up against soil. He used mortar and pored the back with concrete. Much easier to build than a two sided drystone wall. Thanks for the educational video. John Bethel, Missouri. USA
Hi Thanks for the comment. Unfortunately, backing with concrete isn't the best way of of building a wall. Water can't trickle through the concrete and will create a sodden banking behind. Ice and frost will make the wall move as one solid structure. There should be a degree of flex to a retaining wall. Dry stone structure allow for this. Dry stone walls have a multitude of facets that make the construction ideal for the project in mind.
If you have ever been tenerife lanzarote gran Canaria we don't finish with copin stone the finish is level these days as I said before the fill is with concrete mix of cement and stone chips keep going bud
It’s a pleasure to see your work and hear your explanation. I’m lately interested in lime mortar pointing and I’ve followed your vids on the subject. But I’m also interested in dry stone walling. Great work.
@@dportercontracting9974 42 million meters of wall in the Peak District alone. I reckon what it was, was an anti-deluvian crust of sediment turned to rock due to the compression of hundreds if not thousands of feet of water. This rock crust covered all fertile land and had to be broken up and removed so those left after the Noahesq cleansing could farm again. The pieces of this compressed, sun baked crust were then used to create walls. What else were you going to do with it?
Fantastic insight and tutorial. Just a couple of questions if I may. Is this work done usually on price or day work.? And how do you work out how much material you need when the stone is so varied in size.? So interesting honestly! Many thanks.
Thank for the comment. This kind of work is usually done on price. If you are doing gap (farm walling) walling then you usually work on a day rate. For this kind of stone used, we usually go off the principle that a standard linear meter of wall, 4'6" high will be one metric ton of stone.
Thought about a time when l finally finished hanging a gate to complete a fence boundary to keep our new dog in ,only for him to jump over a walled part,that must have been chest high. What he did not know the drop was head high.He never did it again,used the gate lol
Any chance you could film a timelapse of the ‘doing shit’ bit? Would have loved to see the building of the wall timelapse, with no need for commentary. Same with any job you do.
This is our wall. Danny is very modest - not everyone can do it, it requires a great amount of skill. No doubt, this video will improve anyone's skills but don't be deceived, like all experts, Danny makes hard things look easy. This wall is a work of art. Well done Danny and Callum!
Dude thats class! Keep up the videos!
Brilliant. Well done.
When we had building boom here used to get 50 euro a lineal mt working with a canarian master stone Mason the geezer is the best i ever seen an artist happy days
I came across your channel while looking for lime mortar joints information. Now, I'm learning how walls are built even though I'm not planning to build any 😆. Your wide knowledge and skills are really interesting and a pleasure to watch and listen to. Thanks a lot for sharing this! Cheers from Belgium
Superb job.
Enjoyed your video some great advice,1 point I would make about the throughstones,I wouldn't advice people to hammer or chisel them flush,surely that would damage the building around them,best left and let the wall settle naturally,All the Best,ex drystone waller,Ally
Hi Ally, thanks for the comment.
I tend to finish the throughs flush with the stone face as livestock and collie puppies tend to vault off the "kneebangers" and over the wall.
A good quality tungsten chisel and the surrounding walling stays sound.
Morning bud have been watching lots of these videos the best yet you explain it perfectly without music and sensless speeding up like a speedy Gonzalez cartoon I work the stone volcanic stone in the canaries shaping with lump hammer we also do double side half a meter fill with concrete where exactly you from bud lived in lancashire st Anne's like your graft
Very well put up Danny. My Father put up several walls around our house back in the 1970's. The walls were to keep the soil from migrating into the street. The walls were backed up against soil. He used mortar and pored the back with concrete. Much easier to build than a two sided drystone wall. Thanks for the educational video.
John
Bethel, Missouri. USA
Hi Thanks for the comment. Unfortunately, backing with concrete isn't the best way of of building a wall. Water can't trickle through the concrete and will create a sodden banking behind. Ice and frost will make the wall move as one solid structure. There should be a degree of flex to a retaining wall. Dry stone structure allow for this. Dry stone walls have a multitude of facets that make the construction ideal for the project in mind.
If you have ever been tenerife lanzarote gran Canaria we don't finish with copin stone the finish is level these days as I said before the fill is with concrete mix of cement and stone chips keep going bud
It’s a pleasure to see your work and hear your explanation. I’m lately interested in lime mortar pointing and I’ve followed your vids on the subject. But I’m also interested in dry stone walling. Great work.
Great job looks excellent all of the rules followed beating the last cope stone in is common i often did it tightens them together 👍
Thank u for teaching. Loving your vids
When you do the math on dry stone walls of Britain their origin remains a mystery. 26,000 miles of dry stone walls in the Peak District alone.
Many millions of man hours of construction. Awe inspiring!
@@dportercontracting9974 42 million meters of wall in the Peak District alone. I reckon what it was, was an anti-deluvian crust of sediment turned to rock due to the compression of hundreds if not thousands of feet of water. This rock crust covered all fertile land and had to be broken up and removed so those left after the Noahesq cleansing could farm again. The pieces of this compressed, sun baked crust were then used to create walls. What else were you going to do with it?
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Fantastic insight and tutorial. Just a couple of questions if I may. Is this work done usually on price or day work.? And how do you work out how much material you need when the stone is so varied in size.? So interesting honestly! Many thanks.
Thank for the comment.
This kind of work is usually done on price. If you are doing gap (farm walling) walling then you usually work on a day rate.
For this kind of stone used, we usually go off the principle that a standard linear meter of wall, 4'6" high will be one metric ton of stone.
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Thought about a time when l finally finished hanging a gate to complete a fence boundary to keep our new dog in ,only for him to jump over a walled part,that must have been chest high. What he did not know the drop was head high.He never did it again,used the gate lol
You r sound as fuck mate love your vids x
Any chance you could film a timelapse of the ‘doing shit’ bit? Would have loved to see the building of the wall timelapse, with no need for commentary. Same with any job you do.
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