I can’t believe every stone in a bridges/ reservoir etc. would have required anywhere near that much effort before it went on a wall! New level of appreciation for all these structures we walk past everyday 🤯
Masonry’s brought a lot of joy to my life. There’s something almost divine about stone work, laying bricks and block are enjoyable, but nothing quite compares to working with stone.
You are both right and wrong. You should be able to walk on your footings and youd be insane to walk on your first few courses with smaller stone lol both are true at the same time. The premise is, if your larger stones move when you walk in them the wall is doomed from the start.
You know, I might live in America but by God I knew ye were from the North before ye even said anything. I suspect growing up with my mum (who is from Stockport) yelling at me has tuned my ears 😅
I found an axe head like that up in the hills on a logging trail long ago and still have it. I thought it was for splitting wood; I said, what a heavy, impractical design for a wood splitting maul, and it was dulled to heck. Can't believe I didn't realize it was for splitting stone
Magnificent - building for permanence. Much respect for your craft. My family farm had dry-laid rough stone walls built by generations of my family from stones heaved up by plow and frost.
God I love this channel. I low key would love to be out there in the damp, under an overcast sky. Hammering away, as they did thousands of years ago. Creating in stone, something permanent and real.
So do stone dressers actually lay the stone or is that a stone mason job...I'm guessing that 'Master stonemason' means you can do everything with a stone!
Just stumbled across your videos and love it. I'll be doing a lot of this work at my house, several retaining walls, a fence wall maybe, and other things. It is definitely a lost and dying art, one that we should ressurect.
