Todays video shows a day in the life of a part time Dry Stone Waller! Hope this is of interest to some folks, if not I am hoping to be out for another wild camp next weekend so stay tuned :-)
Really enjoyed watching your skill in re building the wall Bri, you are so good at this, also great commentary! Very satisfying days work, from one very proud Mum❤
That was absolutely fascinating to watch Brian. It made a nice change to viewing camping videos and it was interesting and absorbing to follow. You put in a lot of work in there, and what a great job that you made of it in the end. Cheers mate for showing us what's involved with dry stone walling, and also, for keeping an old tradition alive. 👍
I'm glad you found it interesting Steve, I love to have the odd day walling just to get out of the office. It's hard graft and it really gets your lower back so it's not something I could do full time to be honest. It's a great skill to have these days anyway. Thanks for watching and commenting mate.
i am 64 now, i was brought up near glossop and worked for derbyshire council at chapel, i worked with some of the best Wallers going, my claim to fame was working on the little roman bridge at the top of woodhead, so here's a list of the best around there, Jim chat from tinsel gone but not forgot, Bill gibson from glossop, allan steaples from sparrow pit, ronnie bacon from calver, all deceased, the best farmer waller with out doubt, edger allam, dave allams dad, the best dry stone associate members i worked with, trevor wragg graham ford from over matlock area, then carl pollite from hattersley, then smoking john from mottram, and if the gang you worked for is the same one i'm thinking of, yes your right, all beer and wackie backie. good luck with your back.
Fascinating info there, thanks for that. I spoke to Trevor Wragg on the phone once when I was contemplating doing a walling course, smashing bloke. You're right about the back ache!
I found that very therapeutic, dry stone wall building is a bit of a dying trade sadly, not because it's not needed, but because the younger generation are mostly not interested in taking it up. It's a bit like sign writing which I learned on a YTS (youth training scheme for the younger viewers lol) people would rather have laser cut stickers or printed signs rather than a hand painted sign these days. It's a shame, dry stone walls and hand painted signs have so much more character than their modern counterparts. Great video, we may need older skills like this in the coming years if Klaus and his mob get their way 😉
Thanks so much for your comment and I completely agree with your thoughts, these traditions may well serve us well if 'they' get their great reset, they can stick it where the sun don't shine, I don't want any part of their system!
I couldn't find your name, so cheers. One of my passions is dry stone walling. Really beautiful walls in that district. Wishing you the best mate, Rick
I never knew there was so much to building a stone wall! You done an absolutely smashing job there bro, super impressed! Learnt somet new today! Big ups! X
I really liked your humility, and not professingto be an expert was very refreshing, nonetheless you made a [ovely job of the wall and it blended in really well, you can feel very satisfied with your efforts.
mate, for someone who claims to not be much of a professional, you got that up in cracking time. cheers for the tour of the english countryside and the enjoyable watch.
@$20 a square foot for material and about $40 an hour labor (at least in my part of Texas)...that is tens of thousands of dollars worth of rock walls you got there.
Those sound like similar prices to us here in the UK. There is a LOT of walls to go at round here, but the farmers don't get grants to help them pay for maintenance so they can only afford to get repairs done on sections that really need it.
Haha, cheers matey! 😄It certainly looks daunting when you see a large pile of stones, but once I start I get tunnel vision and am able to just crack on with it.
Thanks very much, I still have a lot to learn. There's plenty of work around, I need to tap into it a but more as it makes a nice change from being in the office.
New subcriber after watching this. I lived in Gloosop for 28yrs before upping sticks to live in Australia. My first job was dry stone walling @ 16yrs old. Loved the vid,brought many memories back. And a fellow outdoors person showcasing the local moors that i remember fondly 👍
Welcome and a big thanks for the comment and sub! I am really pleased that the video evoked good memories for you, do you miss Glossop? Probably not the weather though.....
Cheers Steve, glad you enjoyed it and nice one for giving it a try yourself, it's certainly a dying trade so i'm glad to have some skills to use from time to time.
Enjoyed it but would have loved to see the actual; work; but did you clear up after the video ends, or just leave the remaining stone a at the end of the video ?? Thanks for the film.
Very nice on completion you did a lot of work in one day on your own most satisfying for you and I hope the farmer paid you worth every penny you charged him
Thanks very much Betty 🙂 I charge quite a lot less per metre than most, hence why I need to work fast! I am happy to keep prices low because the farmer I work for needs all the help he can get at the moment.
Those small stones laying on the ground after the wall is completed reminds me that every time I dis-assemble a electric or mechanic device, there is always some screws left on my table after re-assemble it.
Nice job , thanks. From someone who has never laid a stone but is nonetheless fascinated, what holds up the ends of the coping stones? There has to be large stones to bookend them, I would think, but I have not seen a video on that detail.
Hey there, enjoyed skipping through the video. Maybe you talked about it already but how long did it take you to repair this section and how many squaremeters did you repair? Kind regards
Is there any particular reason for having quite a few stones left over? (This was a video that did justice to the art of dry stone walling - I personally have only done two weekend walling courses so far)
I usually have at least some stone left, although sometimes the opposite can be true- it's usually coping stones that are lacking. The reason is that you will never build a wall back as it was originally due to discrepancies in the height or width of the original wall or that there were already a few loose stones on the ground. I still have a lot to learn can also be added to the equation!
Earthquakes are very rare here, and very weak when they do occur. It would be interesting to see how one of these walls would fare in your country though.
We don’t get earthquake in England or a lot of sun shine. Most of these walls will be over a hundred years old and a lot of damage is from sheep or cattle .
@@GlossopwildcampI'd say you look ageless. I can tell you are a man 🏋🏻♂️ but no where near aged or old. Grown yes, but we never truly stop growing anyway. It's like you no longer "age" and are just you, not a number!
I wanted to see you build the wall not keep skipping after the fact the stones have already been placed… maybe get a tripod or something so you can do a time-lapse of you building it, just imagine making a video about rebuilding a wall and you only show yourself laying one brick in the whole video and skip the whole process.
This was never meant to be a detailed 'how to' video. My channel is about wild camping mainly, this was just something I thought I'd film in the hope it was of interest to someone. Sorry it wasn't up to your standards I guess!
@@Glossopwildcamp as the title said a day of dry stone walling I assume you would show you building the wall i didn't want a how to i just wanted to watch you build the wall and found it frustrating you kept skipping it when you was building the wall back, I didn't want a how to just make a time-lapse of you building it back though I have been able to find another video since this. The video is fine, I just didn't get to see what i wanted to see I guess though I have managed to find how people build these walls as I was just interested on how you get a drystone wall to stand up right on its own. Thank you for responding. Sny
