grate work! I also want to build something out of stone ... and I am in the knowledge gathering phase ... and I am truly glad I've run intro you guys...
Always fun to work with natural stone. I've found that wetting all sides of the stone prior to applying mortar will insure a much stronger finished product, as the dry stone will draw the water out of the mortar.
Love the video! Thanks! (Phooey on Nay-sayers!_) I'm trying to learn how to build both dry stack and Dbl-Faced walls out of Lava stones on the Big Island. Pretty darn cool stuff! Thanks! - Ken in Hawaii - June 2017
3:00 laid it backwards and made a running joint....should've had the broken edge facing in....needed a through stone there really.....noticed you have no through stones.........and your verticle joints are too close.....thats where these walls crack if a tree grows near it.....splash out and get a rubber mallet for banging down your cap stones or they will crack inside. you are getting there ....look up "snecked stone"....or "snecked rubble walling"....it should help.
You don't level random rubble walling on the bed ( back to front ), you plumb the face. The wall looks ok but it would look better if no mortar was showing on the face, ( it should have been back bedded) then the wall would look as it was a dry stone wall. I would also have used an A frame so as to work to a line.
I see that it serves a purpose as a sitting wall, so I get it.dose look great but dry stack would have been fine if built proper.more pleasing to the eye, more skill involved and a bigger pay check.
stone man same thing I said You can use your ruler to make sure you keeping the walls plum or you can put up batter boards that straddle across the stone wall the way he's working it's more like a bricklayer and I know because I lay brick and set stone
Barry Kuz I said a lot of stone myself and I was not impressed they shouldn't be on RU-vid showing people the wrong way to set stone that's just my opinion does the wall look professional yes it looks professional after it's done but put together with some crazy craftsmanship
