Dry Stone Walling for beginners - a video production by Tigershark Multimedia Productions 

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Lego Bricks

Must be nice to have stones

Yes, i’m rebuilding a wall that fell down in the 50s, half of the stones are buried.

Mine are super hard blue cobbles but the walls still stand from hundreds of years back

exactly, at my farm we have all sorts of shapes, however square stones can still be tricky buggers to make flat

Thanks, Pieter! It's amazing just how much rock you really need to build a wall!

Walls are good

Mexicans will pay for all global walls..

Hi Taj - most stones were found and removed from the fields that the walls form the perimeter of. The stone used in the video is a level bedded sandstone, which is easily shaped as it is quite soft and gives nice ‘blocks’ to work with. Whinstone or granite are very difficult to shape and build with as they are a much harder stone. You build with whatever stone is in your geographical area...

Tigershark ...thank for the info👍🏼

Yip - level bedded sandstone does make things easier!

Ha-ha! The DVD can be bought from www.dswa.org.uk/books-dvds.asp Out of interest, here is a rough edit of my father (Irwin Campbell) building stage 2 & 3 of a Broch project in Strathyre, Scotland - ru-vid.com/video/%D0%B2%D0%B8%D0%B4%D0%B5%D0%BE-nJKLgQxI9QY.html

You work with the stones in your area! If it is nice, level bedded sandstone, then yes, they are easier to work with. Granite is a tricky stone for drystone walling - difficult to shape and definitely not level bedded!

Romeo Cuerpo get a stone chisel

Romeo Cuerpo dig deep bed rock is flat

Hi Robert - sorry for the delay in answering. The frost line does not really affect dry stone construction, as the stones can move very slightly and 'breath' a little if water freezes on or around them. In other walls where concrete is used, frost is a problem as it can shatter the bond. The only time frost is an issue with dry stone construction is if the stones have been lifted from a water course before use and are saturated - they will then split under a heavy frost.

Have had problems with frost local sandstone walls cracking crumbling, We have local barns foundations that have held up for over 150 years using the same stone not sure what I am doing wrong. Feral pigs digging under wall to get at silage. will have to rebuild walls and make bacon.

Robert Haavind Well, I'm not sure about how to fix it, but if I had to hazard a guess, I might know why the sandstone is cracking in the winter. As +tigersharkmultimedia mentioned, saturated stones crack or split under a heavy frost. Sandstone, by its nature, is very water absorbent. Because of this, it'll be quick to soak up any groundwater or melted snow. Not sure what that seemingly useless information will do for you, but I hope it might help. Although, the black material you see landscapers using to waterproof things comes to mind.

I'm afraid not - but it WILL work on laptops, Macs or PCs anywhere in the world!

+iamhole Hi there - a good dyker should manage about 4 yards a day, using level bedded stone to a height of 4' 6". This would have no 'features' built in to it and be done on level ground.

2 metre tops.

‘The Essential Guide to Dry Stone Walling’ is available at www.dswa.org.uk/books-dvds/

No - Voiceover done by ex-BBC man John Thirlwell

Tigershark cool video, thanks for upload! 👌👍

You are absolutely correct. Not quite sure how we got that one wrong!

You can rebuild in Minecraft!