No.16 Restoration of a Dangerous Old Stone Wall 

The wall is looking absolutely fantastic….🔨⚒️

Some bits and bobs for backfillin'... I like that, it has a certain ring to it. Keep on keepin' on! ⚒️

Wow!! You 2 are killing it!! Building that wall.

Nice Work & Video 👍

Nice. Appreciate the teaching on the mortar finishing.

Great intro music, keeping these walls blues!

Nice piece of brick work, well done. I hope you rewarded pops with plenty of cold beer, even if it was French beer 😁 Cheers

Some reno channels give me a sense of being overwhelmed by the project but for some reason your channel gives me a very calm and confident feeling that you have can do this. I always enjoy your vlogs!!!

What a great father and son team and in that heat !The wall looks great and I love the finds shelf !👍👍👊👊👏👏👌👌❤❤🇦🇺🇦🇺

Beautiful stone wall you are recreating. Tell us more about when you plan to start work on the main house and what your approach will be to start the work. Many of us are interested in knowing more about that.

Inspiring. Thanks

Grand job doming that wall

Nice to see the progress! Great to see the archeology going on in the old workshop. Deciphering all the clues left behind in the rubble is half the fun! Keep going, I am certain you are learning more about the mill and its surroundings with every passing day. Cheers!

hard yakka well done

For sorting out the dirt, I would suggest buying some hardware cloth of different densities and frame the cloth with 1x2 (I'm from the U.S.) and sift shovel loads at a time.

Wow, you look as though he did a really good job on that wall. Well done

I love the effort you’re all putting in to the videography, camerawork, editing and narrative in the last few weeks, it really makes a huge difference. Love the treasure shelf it’s going to end up full of stuff you’ll enjoy for years. Great to see that proper strong and safe scaffold can actually be found in France 😉 stonework is looking great and you got so much done in a shift. Mercy Buckets.

Loved the contrast from time-lapse to real-time on the wall ;) And awesome to see some archaeology going on. You are doing great guys!

work at night maybe looks good legends

Love the intro music 👏

Wow. Hard hot work.

I am pretty sure that glass light is from an art deco lamp, it would have been a lady holding up a flame (your glass being the flame). I know these are very sought after as they usually break and art deco fans need them to replace their broken one. I would have a look on the internet and research it, you could get a few quid towards the restoration from it :) Teamwork with the wall. Be careful with that glass ridden floor, especially when sitting on it

You need a soil screen sifter. A wooden frame with some screening on it, shake the soil through into a wheel barrow and find your treasures or glass on top of the screen

After you finish this wall you‘ll be qualified to repair the Great Wall of China😂, did you know they found rice in their mortar and this gave the mortar more strength, you both must have been pleased with the results, mammoth effort

Will that wall need any form of buttressing being so tall or is there going to be a building behind it?? 😎👏👍

The wall looks great!

I don't know why but I was thinking you'd use some tie rods or something like rebar to tie the existing wall to the section you built - next time maybe - it's still going to be strong without. Good to see you making a good job of it. The rusted handtool - you might, it could have been a plane - John, the guy who is 'Scoutcrafter' might have a good idea if you add a comment to one of his videos. I thought it might be some form of old farming tool - one day, we'll find out....!

Raking the dirt with a fine toothed rake?

Did this Grandson have actual pictures of the water wheel ?

Wow, what a project! Love it.... but, but don't understand why you're putting so much effort in the wall and things outside and didn't start with the house. I imagine that the rental house isn't for free and the longer the roof of the millhouse is leaking, the worse it gets. But I'll keep on watching and finaly you will start on the house 😉😂

Rich: Hey kids - look what I did today! I made a stone wall just like the Romans did that will last 200 years! Kids: Cool Dad! Hey Mom - what did you do today? Helen: I dug in the dirt to find broken glass and pieces of rusty metal. 😞 Helen - just letting you know we all appreciate you!

A sifting Screen and shovel everything into in it, catch dirt in trash bin.

Could that glass light fitting be Lalique?

that "planer" looks too clunky and the wood too rough for a planer imho. i can't imagine someone using a piece of wood with a knot in the middle for an infill plane. My uneducated guess would be that the metal bracket is supposed to go on the end of a beam and then the bolts? secure it in plate and the thing that sticks out could be a handle like a lock gate or it's a big hinge ?

You seem to have done away with the gates that were there previously. I thought a nice feature to have been reinstated and possibly quite useful?

Great job!

Great progress!

Все стекла можно закинуть в бетон.если что то будете бетаниовать

The wall is looking really good, a lot of hard work but so worth it. Another channel I watch are pointing their house with a tool that attaches to a drill, it looks like an icing bag but hard plastic. I’m not very good at describing things 😂 but it saved them so much time using it. Being that that is your trade, I’m guessing you know exactly what I mean.

What sort of mortar did you use on the wall ?

🌟 P r o m o s m

Stone wall building ……. Is that a past trade of yours and your dads, you look like your more than novices ?