Internet is fucking great, I am from a town in Turkey, thinking about building a stone wall and watching an Irish stonemason's great advices. That's why I pay money to internet.
I bet you and I would be good buddies. I'm a retired Army bullet catcher from tiny mountain village in Pennsylvania, United States reading what some guy in Türkei wrote years ago. This is the good part of the internet. I'd love to know how your wall turned out and trade some information with a fellow amateur stone mason.
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I'm lucky to live in a place wear dry stone walling is still common. It gives a traditional character to the area, unlike the sterilised repetitive walls of most modern towns which lack any sort of character.
This video was very informative and very exciting,no long boring explanation before an actual demonstration, everything on site and straight to the point, I like that! The profile and line explains a lot!
Absolutely brilliant, well done mate, total respect for all the dry stone wall builders, they are beautiful and a work of art. Was in Yorkshire this summer, struck me that it is probably expensive for land owners to repair , should be funded by tourist board and other bodies that benefit from the tourism brought to the picturesque landscape. Would allow proper financing for skilled stonemasons to do the job properly.
Thankyou Sir, in inspiring us all to have a go at wall building. I think everyone watching your video should bear in mind, you are a massively skilled gentleman with immeasurable know how and fierce determination in having things right. Thankyou and very best wishes.
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Great tips, thank you. The other way he could do it is he could have set up his quions on that 2nd coarse first and then lay the 2nd coarse walling. Again credence to him for sharing his knowledge.
Dry stone walling is very much alive and well in the UK, many walls in rural areas are exactly that and must be re-built and maintained so the knowledge isn't at risk of dying out here any time soon.
I take care of elderly people for a living and make little pay. My dream life would be to build stone walls. I built a small dry stone wall once and I never enjoyed anything in my life so much. The wall was so beautiful when I finished, a work of art.
Well that works .....thank you sir my job is well under way ...just taken four days off to move a masive amount of stone ...so i can get on with the next wall Thanks again you really helped
They have lovely dry stone walls, the older ones, here in Spain in which the stones are allowe dto run at a slight diagonal. Even some of these use a white stone runnin gthrough the grey one ocasionally which shows of this. I have noticed the stones are held up at each end by some stone that supports them.
We used to have this art here in Australia. But it became a secret because it was such a prized trade. The only people who learnt did so by observation only. Now it has been lost and only one or 2 guys in the entire region know how to do it.
It takes someone with real self belief and confidence to be prepared to make sound simple what must have taken years of trial and error and hard work to perfect
I could watch a much longer version. Im sure that man knows nearly every trick of the trade! Id say he'd hit ya a slap into next week too with the shoulders on him 🤣
I'm from Nova Scotia and the original farmers built walls like this. After over 200 years, they are covered in moss and as they settle inwards, become even stronger.
What degree taper do you need from top to bottom? If I were laying up a stone fireplace that's 15 foot high, would I taper it like an industrial smoke stack or just go plumb? Thanks
Love stone masonry, and am highly considering getting into it as a career. I'm 25. Never too late right? I used to cut and score rock faces for the masons on a construction sight I was on a few years ago.
Finally, someone that knows... That's the correct way to do a wall....not slop mismatched stones and cement like some of these channels. They don't know.
As simple as he explained, a real stone mason, flat, always flat on the wall,......if possible sloped toward the center of the wall, never sloping from the center of the wall toward the face. Thanks for sharing.
As many as possible, as they help make it last. Seen those with less, start to break down in about 100 years. No kidding, had continuous work rebuilding them. From an Old Aussie stonemason.
when the builder indicates that you "put your fillings in flat" is important because if you put them in vertically or not flat, gravity will pull the rocks above them on them causing a wedging effect that pushes the outer larger stones outward. which will cause the base to fail.
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