I think the music works well as it emulates an ancient art that you really don't see too often these days. You can clearly see these guys got there game plan down. I love the technique they use. Great work all around Miss Kate Skye. Kudos from Boston!
Thankyou, very nice work indeed. I used to be a landscaper for about 14 years and have built many stone feature walls both dry and wet, it's quite an artform and not to mention hard work, but the end result is just beautiful,, like you've just shown us. loved the music bye the way, especially the didgeridoo in the background. Cheers
very nice. nice to see someone pre- wetting and using dry mortar for stone. there wont be any flash setting or cracking on that. I like your one and only butter knife you use as a tuck pointer/ slicker.
greeting you from south of Thailand , thank you so much for your good lesson to learn how to make stone wall....very beautiful & strong forever.. I hope to see another project more ...please put it here ..ok thank you
Awsome. been doing this a long time, learned a lot about style from you, would like to see what you can do with round stone about the same size as you are using. i was working with split lime stone now moved and am using field stone
nice work. You just need a few things to build a rock wall (that's what we call'em in the south). 1. A very good eye, 2. Talent, 3. Artistic traits, 4. Imagination, 5. A good back and somewhat healthy body, 6. Patience, 7. Basic tools, hammer, chisel, trowel,pointer. 8. A good eye and imagination. Thanks for sharing!
+Gee Dubb Oh, and the determination to get the job done right no matter how many rocks you have to pick up and then throw to the side. By the time one gets through building a rock wall out of irregular fieldstone he may have handled each rock several times. That goes double true if one is collecting one's own native stone. However, having stated that, rock work has a tendency to capture one's imagination to such an extent that it can become downright obsessive. Personally, I prefer dry stack, dream about it in my sleep.
I did a lot of coquina rock masonry in Florida, Mostly as a veneer. I had to know where to strike the rocks to get the right break. Cut my legs up pretty good but it was fun and I got paid decent for it.
you can buy the pre cut rocks and veneer them onto block, much stronger, easier, maybe the same cost, you need to thinset the stone or freeze thaw will pop them. these guys do things with stone I can't do, but I do a lot of veneer and trust me this is a lot of hard work, looks nice.
So, you had a *beautiful* pile of nicely squared ashlar which you ruined by smashing it into fragments. Why not just use the free field stone already on your farm?
he was using a pointing trowel at the beginning of the video (when packing the motor), but switched to the butter knife when he was cleaning up the joints.
Don't forget to spray your stone. Haha never seen anything like it. To do well it does take time but I would shrink the joints a tad. People of the Americas have strange ways of using stone. Well at least it's not slip form.
Hello Syed, how nice to connect with you. I use a site called stockmusic net for music. You can purchase royalty free music for about $40. There is a huge selection and once you purchase the music you can reuse it for any project. Hope that helps. So glad you liked my short video. Best wishes.
If they wanted to use cement dugger to cement the stones together then that is fine with me, everybody to their taste, it is easy for the people sitting in front of their computers and making stupid comments if they have never in fact actually build a stone wall. This task that these guys did was an easy task, try working, shaping large pieces of rock and lifting them up onto the wall.
