Hello there, that was my job. I was a stone waller for 30 years. I'm retired now with ill health diabetes and ulcers on my legs. But if someone asked me about it, I would do it all again, I loved the job. I have a lot of respect for my fellow Wallers. It's hard work and all weather.

@alfredkaiser2738

2 жыл бұрын

those old walls are such a thing of beauty live in New England their a hikers joy. On the diebetes Gary Null has podcast discusses the need to change a diet to plant based good fats complex carbs. I used it when i became borderline pre diebetic and am off meds for 4 years.

I have retaining walls that are crumbling. Obviously not built right 40 + years ago. Looks like I'll be doing it myself. Great video.

That is a real art. It makes a beautiful wall. It harkens back to ancient knowledge.

It's just awesome seeing old time skills like this still in use.

Master of your craft gentleman my hats off you y’all.

Very useful and explanatory -- thank you from France!

Excellent craftsmanship. ❤️

Great educational video! Dry stone walling is truly an art.

Excellent program! Thank you!

Awesome useful information about natural stone walls. Great job.

Very helpful,thanks a lot, now to get onto the building

A wonderful teaching and explanation about your Dry stone retaining wall. I love to learn

Excelent vídeo!

Very informative. Great reference !

Awesome. Thank you.

I am Irish and a stone mason of over 20 years and I have never heard seen or built a wall with bonding stones or tie rocks as you call them on this video that protrude beyond the face of the wall on either side and dry stone walling is my preferred choice of stone work a bonding stone needs to tie one side of a wall with the other at least half way through the wall here you say a tie rock sticks out 2 inch beyond the face there is no need for this it must be a localisms it certainly is not an Irish tradition but other than that this is a well build wall good job

@BazColne

6 жыл бұрын

endacollins1 In parts of England it's not rare to see extended throughstones. I've heard it's to maintain a bond throughout future shifting.

@neilkennykenny4113

6 жыл бұрын

endacollins1 im Irish too 👍 im not a mason but in another video i watched Richard who the instructor in this video explain that the through stones extending out is for helping to support the wall when it subsides however iv see 4000 year old walls still standing in the Aaron islands without through stones extended out.

@mattmc121

5 жыл бұрын

I've heard that the protruding throughstones are a way of easily marking the distance between each one. If you are a farmer paying for a waller to build you a wall, you might want to know how many and how often throughstones were used in order to ensure you are getting a good product. As a waller, you can easily refer back to the location of your last throughstone so you can space them evenly while building. From my point of view as a dry stone wall builder of over 20 years myself, another reason, especially in a freestanding or double-sided wall, is that when looking for stones that go all the way through, you will probably find that you don't have very many at hand which are the exact right length to match the width of the wall at the height where you are installing them, so this way you have about 6" of leeway if your stones are a bit long. Also, for farm walls, 3" is the maximum overhang, otherwise sheep can use it as a foothold to jump over, and cattle will use it as a back scratcher and possibly pull the wall apart.

@ipeeinmysinkimafraidtocome7127

3 жыл бұрын

if you go to Europe and see a wall 800 year old you would go by the 800 year experience

Awesome information, love this video. Thanks for the upload 👏🏼

this is a great video thanks!

Bravo! Absolutely awe inspiring.

truly a monumental wall , kudos to you guys...

22:23 It was nice of Christian Bale to donate some of his time and acting chops to the effort.

@buddyrevell511

3 жыл бұрын

Yeah same for Ethan Hawke!

Fascinating that there is no mortar holding it together.

Excellent second project, sympathetic to the surrounding environment and well constructed.

Thanks you for the stones wall

Here in Seattle, the old school technique is to use Basalt... And you can really see the skill (or lack thereof) of the crews. Some walls are stunningly beautiful, with tight joints and a flat plane on the front face. Others are barely more than rubble piles thrown against the slope.. These piles actually can look beautiful as well if you have the proper planting of bushes and small trees, but I would love to find a similar training school to learn that tight style of basalt retaining walls...

fantastic teaching. If I just could shape my granite rocks more easily.! hand tools can t do it fast enough and machine/drills I don t want to use. I am stuck

Good show .

Why aren't these angles and techniques ever used in home foundations?

@onemorecowswag

3 жыл бұрын

they are, just not in any modern or mainstream homes. U can build ur own house!

I found this video to be quite helpful and informative. I have just built my first ever wall and tried to make use of this knowledge as best as I could. It's a lot shorter and a bit less complex, but regardless, I think it will do the job. Thanks for posting this! If anyone is interested, you can see my wall on my channel.

Nice rocks,not all rocks come that uniform,

My dad did this for 26 years I've done this for 4 years on my own I use anything for backfill and I have never had to redo a wall

@aholland27

3 жыл бұрын

Yes but if done properly a dry wall will stand centuries.

Nice work.. I understand the rationale for having the foundation stones project but why would the "tie" stones? That must be a purely historic detail that probably came from the need to occasionally use them as hand and foot hold to climb over the walls..right?

@aholland27

3 жыл бұрын

All walls settle eventually so having periodic tie stones spreads the weight of each section of courses which will prevent bulging over the decades and centuries. They also serve to "tie" together the courses below them. Hope that explains it

What kind of stones are these? The stones on my property are nothing like this, I’d have to buy stones to be able to do this.

Is that a laser level beep I hear at 22:16 ? ;-)

I'm not an expert in dry stone wall, Can it be possible to build dry stone wall in water, to prevent soil erosion of embankment?

@mariokajin

9 ай бұрын

Actually it would be better than concrete walls but you have to use, depending on the size/force of the stream/creek/river (no ponds) bigger stones/rocks. And the foundation has to be perfect and well below the river bed.

What is ‘beudy’ ?

So MANY ENDLESS commercials it ruins a good video!

Interesting vid. Smarmy commentary unfortunately.

They need safety glasses

@johnstewart5944

5 жыл бұрын

Eric Wilkes knob head