The rainbow in the sky at the end of the video… icing on the cake.

I have experience doing professional " Stone masonry", and yes I am a brick layer. More correctly, I was a brick layer, and I don't know it all. I'm hoping to learn some productive lessons, and skills. Thank you for all your efforts in building these videos. With love, and respect. Wes Sept

@drystone-tv

10 ай бұрын

Thanks for your comment and wise words. None of us know it all. Doing a trade is a lifelong learning journey . Hopefully these videos get people interested in the craft and they will find as much enjoyment in stonework as I do.

@jamesfyffe2610

9 ай бұрын

It’s a line, not a string 😁 SUNY Delhi masonry construction 1983.

@JediShilts

6 ай бұрын

Best tip I ever got...Just stay on task

@JediShilts

6 ай бұрын

​@@LOYALTOTHEFOIL.I took a Masonry Vocational and we actually did both bricks for walls and rocks for fireplaces and entryways

@andybasnight91

4 ай бұрын

Stone is an excellent craft to learn. I’m 42 years in Brick masonry. However I learned stone about 25 years ago from a friend. It has paid off big for me because when the brick and block slow up the stone seems to be there in a tighter economy. And stone is not hard to learn. Hope you the best.

I'm subscribing not just because it was a good video that I enjoyed but on principle of the fact that you should have way more subscribers! Thanks for the vid

What a lovely start to my day, can't wait for more. I don't build walls (but would love to) but I do build mountain bike features so love using stone :)

Aloha ❤ from Germany. Thanks for sharing your know how 😍🙏

Seems the hard part is setting up the lines and finding the angle of the stakes...need a video on that now! Thank you!

@iandanger883

Ай бұрын

​@somehillyvuiygoodHow is that the hardest part?

I absolutely appreciate the lack of music through out the video. Sometimes creators really only add music to the video because they think that is "how it's supposed to be done, it's gotta have music in there". But very few deliberately add a piece of music to make for a rather more soothing, easier viewing experience. If you aren't adding music to make for less abrasive viewing, then quite possibly you've added music that makes it more abrasive. Keep it up.

A drag rake saves your back and can slide, spin and even flip rocks without having to bend over. A pitchfork is equally handy for picking up smaller rocks and waste. You can "grade" rocks/stones for use as fill as well. I love tools!

@johnwayne3085

2 ай бұрын

I'm surrounded by them daily.

@kansasadventure1831

5 күн бұрын

You're not from my area then lol. Around where I'm from they use people and avoid using any tools for the people. I started using equipment and tools and worked circles around them lol

Great video for the basics with string & shaping the foundation stones. Also good tip about not carrying more than you have to.

Super helpful. Best wishes from Mississippi.We have to pay a lot for stone here. We have mostly swamps and mud in the winter, but a nice stone wall sticks out in a good way. Only northern MS has much natural stone. My Grandad's house in Starkville, MS was built of Tishomingo Stone with some really nice pecky cypress paneling on the inside.

Just had my first go at drystone walling in my front driveway, using Derbyshire gritstone. This video was super helpful, so thanks very much! Really enjoyed the process and I’m pretty pleased with the result so far. Slow progress for me, but feels great to try and learn a new skill! Enjoying the videos, it’s great to watch artists at work!

@drystone-tv

10 ай бұрын

Nice one! I love a bit of that Derbyshire gritstone. It usually works quite well with the hammer. No need to go fast if you're just doing you own job , enjoy the process!

There’s nothing more that I would love then a stone wall on my property. But the time and cost is incredible.

@drystone-tv

6 ай бұрын

If you can get a fast waller you might be able to afford your wall! lots of productive wallers in the UK.

Enjoyed the video. That rainbow at the was certainly perfect timing!

Absolute art. So impressive.

I LOVE your explanation of the internal strength of the wall, and also the use of thicknesses to eventually achieve level on a slope. The material in my projects is sawn slab, but many of the principles are the same. I also like the timelapse interludes where you work. I have really enjoyed that technique in a video. Thanks!

It has always been a dream of mine to build with stone and have no idea what i'm doing. Turned to youtube and found you. Slowing down to say thanks and will give it a shot in the USA

So fun to watch the instant progress....when you know how hard someone is workimg!👏👏👏

Thank you for taking the time and effort to make these vids....really good.

Great skill to have, keep the knowledge alive.

Auspicious rainbow at the end. Keep ‘em coming!

Thank you very much!!! It is a very helpful video. I wish you all the best in life, health, happiness & peace.

Respect to you, sir. Beautiful craftsmanship. 🪨

Fascinating. Thanks for making this video.

Such a beautyfull rainbow at the background💕 thank you for sharing your knowledge.

Thank you. I can already feel that heavy stability beginning. Looking forward to e2.

Thanks for the lesson! I definitely feel I learned something there ! 👌

Useful video for beginners, thanks very much. A friend needs a 3ft dry wall and step, down from the river bank at the bottom of her garden. Am sure this video will be useful 👍Cheers.

Great advice - looking forward ti the rest of the project!

@drystone-tv

Жыл бұрын

Cheers! If there's anything you'd like to hear about in particular let me know and I'll see if I can cover it in a video at some point. Cheers for watching! 👍

So helpful for my wildlife garden project, thank you! Better get back to it and put my learning into action...

Amazing work, thank you for sharing!

@drystone-tv

8 ай бұрын

cheers for watching!

I would walk the line with a sledge hammer,evening out every inch of compression level .this was interesting and relaxing on a Saturday morning,thanks

Thanks - good easy to listen explanation ...

Great video!! Keep making more!!! Liked

That was awesome . Thank you

Thanks for the info mate, one of my to do lists in the future 👌🇦🇺

Good video. I bought the leftovers from a slate stone wall build. Wanting to build around a flower bed in the yard. I appreciate your guidance.

You’re a true British Hero!

@drystone-tv

11 ай бұрын

Haha! Finally some recognition

Great video!

I guess you could build a stone house too on the same principles but morttared? I am very glad I found your video. Very informative. Thanks a million.

@drystone-tv

10 ай бұрын

Yes exactly. Lots of houses in the world are built with solid stone walls and a lime/earth mortar.

Stacked rock walls are so cool!

Nice vid mate, very informative. I've often wondered, how the dry stone walls you see going up mountains, in North Wales were built. Must have been proper graft.

@drystone-tv

Жыл бұрын

Yeah its amazing when you see those walls going up massive slopes in Wales and up in the Lakes. I'll do a video at some point showing the technique of walling uphill. Hard to get your head around at first. Hard graft for sure. 🪨🪨

@bridgets7794

Жыл бұрын

@@drystone-tv Thanks so much for the bloody real instructionals, Bert & Lydia! I've learned so much and really enjoy the relaxed pace of your lessons. It's a privilege to learn from your dad as well. I loved seeing the three of you all working on the same wall in another of your videos. That was really moving. Also, it would be great to see an uphill walling video. I can't find anything about it online, only on retaining walls, so you'd get all the amateur waller traffic. Cheers and many thanks from Nova Scotia!

Great video. Cheers

Thaks for sharing. I'm from Brazil and we dont have to much information here about wall/house stones.

Fantastic!

Thank yoy for putting out this content

Thanks so much. I have a few walls to build in my garden, I saw a chap in Marsden huddersfield building a wall last year and he had done a perfect job. Cant wait to do mine.

Keep the video's coming, I am very interested 💞🇨🇦💞🇨🇦💞🇨🇦

Great accent. Great video.

Amazing, thank you man

@drystone-tv

6 ай бұрын

thanks for watching!

Great videos

@drystone-tv

6 ай бұрын

Thanks!

Awesome, thx

Nice one

Excellent!! Only lift what U have 2. B economical! I regret not listening when I was young!

awesome vid and clear instruction. can you do a quick vid on how to pick topping stones?

@drystone-tv

Жыл бұрын

Yep absolutely.

great!!!!

Those rocks make a wall much easier to build! I’ve used mostly irregular stones for my double faced dry stack walls here in NewEngland.

@drystone-tv

Ай бұрын

These slabs are perfect for walling for sure but irregular stuff is great to wall too! Just a different mindset but the same rules apply; length in, follow the internal shapes, stones meet in height at the joints. The difference is you don't need to lay them in level courses you can go a bit wavy to account for the shapiness!

@CoulterStoneMasonry

Ай бұрын

@@drystone-tv you’re right, I think the waviness is what I like about the irregular stones. Your work is awesome!

Good video

Thanks for posting this. Can't wait to see other videos!

@drystone-tv

Жыл бұрын

Coming soon, just on holiday at the mo.

Good informasiont ilmu pondasi

thankyou for your advice greatly appreciated, I'm currently learning about stone masonry just saving up for my tools and stone, could i recommend making a video on the different types of tools and how to use them

@drystone-tv

Жыл бұрын

Yeah thats a good idea for a video! I'd recommended getting something like an estwing brick hammer for a start they're about £35 so reasonably affordable.

ThankQ

4:53 cool timelapse

Good.

Nice 👍

bloody real!!!

@drystone-tv

Жыл бұрын

Bleeeedy real job 😋❤️‍🔥🤙

can you do one on how to chip those stones to size nicely like that?

Great video. Can you tell me how many metres its possible to get down in a day? Thanks

I have never done any stonework, but one general thing about being economical with your energy that I have noticed is to use your bodyweight to move things when possible instead of using your muscles.

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Hey mate, very pleasant to watch. Give your doggy a hug from me. We are about to start building a stone sauna...we gonna try to make the roof in a dome shape. I am absolute beginner and i got the pleasure to do our project with one of the most well known gentleman here in the area. He said that he never did a dome shape roof...so challenge is definitely on. Any advice will be greatly appreciated. Greetings.

@drystone-tv

10 ай бұрын

That is certainly an ambitious build and I've done a dome before so could do a video on it to explain the process!

good technic

@drystone-tv

4 ай бұрын

Cheers!

I live in a limestone region. Not the greatest rock for longevity as layers can start to shed due to weathering. But really that is all I have to use and lots of freebies come out of the ground over the years and I use a truckers cheater bar to pry them out. I dry stack, it is like a puzzle and get good results. Hardly hammer any as I can fit angles together well. So far 5 walls, one large fire pit from freebies coming out of the ground. Stacking is fun but the older you get the more aches begin..

Great video. Wondering how you'd lay the foundations uphill?

@drystone-tv

4 ай бұрын

What you do is cut a trench that is like a set of steps into the hillside and lay the foundation up that. If i get the opportunity on a wall like that I'll do a video.

Can I ask you what kind of stone are you using? Also can you make a two storey house out of a dry stone technique? Thank you.

@drystone-tv

Жыл бұрын

Hi , this is sandstone- a great building material. I wouldn't recommend solely dry stone for any kind of dwelling , however a Dry stone cladding can look really cool! The problem is that with this technique you don't have any thermal or moisture barrier so it would make a very cold and damp house !

Nice video . I work in landscaping and am looking at getting into Drystone walling also. Do you find there is alot of demand and if so is it mainly farmers that want it doing ?

@drystone-tv

Жыл бұрын

It depends where you are located but I started professionally in 2014 and have never been short of work. I mainly work in gardens for private clients or landscapers. Occasionally I will work for a farmer but where I am there is not that much Farm walling. In the national parks there are grants for the field walls so there is much more work available.

@nickyraimouth

Жыл бұрын

@@drystone-tv cheers thats good info. I'm Leeds based and happy to travel for bigger jobs if they're in nice places. I look into the national park side of jobs . What's the kind of rate people tend to charge ? I've seen it anywhere upto 200 for a metre squared (both sides)

@drystone-tv

Жыл бұрын

@nickyraimouth hmm, that's a very difficult question to answer as it depends on a few factors. Namely, what quality are you building the wall at and how wallable is the stone you are using. I would say that £200 a meter is expensive because you should be aiming to build 2 meters a day at a minimum. If you're just starting you might not hit that target but that's what you should aim for. For my top quality work I charge £120/130 a meter. I have worked up in the dales for £40 a meter but because of the situation I was able to put up 6 meters.

@drystone-tv

Жыл бұрын

@@nickyraimouth just make sure to always charge extra for prep work and tidying up .

@nickyraimouth

Жыл бұрын

@@drystone-tv cheers thats given me a bit more of a guide line to have a think about . Would you ever need an occasional labourer? I'm planning on doing the lantra course in Derbyshire whenever the next one is but been thinking would be good to work with someone every now and again that's doing it for a living to pick up some tricks

What tool are you using to trim the stones please? Can you send the name on please.

What type of stone is that?

If you are building a foundation for a building with dry stack stones, would you need to make the first course below the frostline? Would you ever need to start below grade for a wall or is heaving not really an issue for walls?

@drystone-tv

4 ай бұрын

Yes absolutely, you'll need to go below the frostline if you're building for a house or something. Frost heave does affect dry stone walls which is why most of the original new England dry stone walls are totally collapsed

I'm not sure I understand, what keeps a stone wall such as this, built on surface grade, from frost heaving every season?

@drystone-tv

11 ай бұрын

That is a good observation! Where I live we don't get frost heave. We get a couple of shallow frosts every winter of about 6" but nothing to seriously effect the walls. Where there is a problem with frost it's a good idea to dig down and put some gravel down. Whatever the local builders recommend really! 👌

∆ 10Stone of theROCK .

Im my area is more flag atone like and when you hammer or chisel it the breaks are almost imposible to get square because it flakes like a biscut. I stopped doing stone work for this reason. I realise now why i see more homes in my area in the flag stone manner instead of block lol

What kind of tool are you using to chip the rock? Is it a regular hammer?

@drystone-tv

8 ай бұрын

it's a Riley 4lb Northern Walling Hammer

@EntreePotato

8 ай бұрын

@@drystone-tv thanks and great video.

Will there be a part 2 coming soon? 😬

@drystone-tv

Жыл бұрын

I've filmed the first half of part two. It's going to be a long video with lots of information so it's taking a bit of putting together. Should be up later this month. Cheers!

@joshrea6554

Жыл бұрын

@@drystone-tv looking forward to it 😊

Do you start the foundation below the frost line?

@drystone-tv

11 ай бұрын

Aye, if you're in an area with a severe frost cycle you'll need to mitigate that. You could dig a trench and fill it with compacted gravel up to the frost line. Where I live its rare to get more than 6" of frost so it doesn't affect the walls really.

I can’t find Part 2 of building a stone wall. Found part 1 & 3? Can you tell me where or send a link, please?

@pipn3249

10 ай бұрын

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I've never built a wall on the topsoil before. You should always dig down through the black to the subsoil before walling up.

@drystone-tv

8 ай бұрын

I agree, this example is built on hard-core.

Please sir make video of second third course of wall with irregular shape of stone how to make it and how to adjust with stone

@drystone-tv

9 ай бұрын

Yeah ill do that! I think I'll have time in September to do some more videos

Noice 👍

any chance of doing some work in limestone?

@drystone-tv

Жыл бұрын

Aye, I've a wall to do in Derbyshire for my cousin that would be a good demo in limestone.

@johnlong123long

Жыл бұрын

@@drystone-tv good stuff. will look out for it. cheers

Very good video. I learned a lot about stone walls. I had no idea that the fill was larger stones hammered in place and that small stones added no strength. I am a bit worried that you don't use safety goggles, but maybe that was just for the vid. Anyways, cheers mate, good on y'a 😊👍

Save that back, for sure! A blown back sucks.

I built a 200' stone fence on my property. It's like a jigsaw puzzle where nothing fits.

We start the wall build 6 inches down, below the frost line. Is this part of the foundation not necessary?

@drystone-tv

Ай бұрын

It is, I'm just showing how to lay the stones. I'm building on a compacted stone base here and didn't fancy digging it up!

@CoulterStoneMasonry

Ай бұрын

@@drystone-tv I’d be curious to see how you do those.

Foundation of drainable aggregate and compact aggregate for under every wall to avoid heave and rodent tunnels sinking portions. 6 to 12 inches deep and compacted in courses.

@drystone-tv

10 ай бұрын

There are over 160,000 miles of dry stone wall in the UK nearly all of which are built directly on subsoil and over 150 years old.

What areas do you cover?

@drystone-tv

Жыл бұрын

Areas around Huddersfield. We do travel further for certain projects ✌️

What kind of hammer are you using?

@drystone-tv

9 ай бұрын

This is a Riley 4lb northern style walling hammer

What is the idea of length in? Could you help?

@drystone-tv

11 ай бұрын

So unless a stone is square it will have a long side and a short side. The idea is that you place the stone so the long side is going into the wall rather than along the face. It's the opposite to brickwork where you use the longest face of the brick on the outside .

In that last shot, that’s a rainbow 🌈 over your head dude!

Clearly the rocks in the course need to be of nearly the same height to facilitate the next course ?

@drystone-tv

11 ай бұрын

yeah, with this type of stone that's the general idea. when you have irregular stone you just need to be at the same height where the stones meet.

what type of stone is/can be used

@drystone-tv

9 ай бұрын

All geological stone types can be used. Generally speaking most dry stone walls are built with what Quarrys call 'overburden' This is the rougher material that is found just under the surface and can't be used for much else.