wall we built in 2022 south wales Brecon beacons ( just a memory of a work day with my father , and the music he was playing at the time in his jeep ) song : Tracy Chapman speak the world ( I do not own this song )
After watching the video I had many questions, just scanning the comments answered them all. My first thought watching was I love how completely raw odd ball shaped stone walls look but find it hard for myself to even start to build one because structurally it doesn't work as well and it's the OCD in me that I have to balance and mate the stones well. And yeah, that much gravel behind such a high shallow stack like that was never going to work long term. Looked good for a while though.
I built one just against the dirt. I wanted water to make its way through the wall and run down the front of it and also bring some dirt with it. You have gravel behind it which will make the water run down behind the wall, so I assume you have a drain pipe also.
Better to use the clay mud behind it ,but the farmer here insisted we put 10 ton of stone behind this one which we said was not good as it will push the wall over so it fell down couple days later .
@@SpencerjonesBoxing if it fell down a few days later then you need to learn how to make a stone wall, the drainage behind the wall needs pipe at the base to get that water out... The wall should have held either way, longest edge of the rock should be going back in towards the ground it's retaining, not maximizing face/frontage... You show yourself hammering a rock into the face of the wall... Are you serious.
@@mrbrown3546 a pipe won't work it's just the sheer weight of the loose stone (10ton ) pushing the singles skin wall out ,it's impossible to make a single skin dry wall stand up in these circumstances, especially when the stone is bad,
At 1:30 you're hammering a rock into the face... Clearly all about looks and no structural integrity, proven by your other reply about it falling down a few days later. That's a big retaining wall and you show you don't know enough to make it when you show long edges laying along the face of the wall instead of layed back into the hillside for strength. Also so many large gaps, the reason these walls can work is that each rock is sitting against all others under it with maximum contact to prevent movement.
Yeah we knew it was going to fall when the owner insisted of putting all that stone behind it so we just made it look decent and waited for it to go, hopefully he learned his lesson, we wanted to build with cement ,because nobody could make this work 1. Because we were using rounded stoned dug out from a field by the farmer 2. Because the farmer was scooping stone behind the wall. 3 because it was single skin
Hello Spencer I would’ve liked to have seen you actually building and constructing the wall with all respect not really interested in looking into somebody’s glovebox thank you regards Paul
