I could listen to that chap all day, he's well spoken

@tyronwheatley2306

21 күн бұрын

His voice was music to my ears

@lairddougal3833

20 күн бұрын

Note the absence of moronic fillers in his delivery. No ‘likes’, no ‘you knows’, just clear understandable statements. I counted a single ‘um’. This should be shown to every school kid as an example of good communication.

@ForkOffjewgle

18 күн бұрын

He's a product of a functioning education system

@seanseoltoir

17 күн бұрын

There are a lot of different accents in the UK... Some are easily understood and others are quite difficult... It's really surprising that they can have so many noticeably different accents so close to each other in such a small country...

@kevdimo6459

17 күн бұрын

There’s not much better than watching a master craftsman plying his trade, and creating something so unique and beautiful! 👍🏼👍🏼

As impressive as the craft of dry waling is, this man has a talent for narration and story telling that is what really caught my attention.

@nofurtherwest3474

17 күн бұрын

He has a soothing voice

The waller is as articulate in explaining the craft as he is skilled in actually laying the stones. A marvellous little film.

@nikita3.14

5 күн бұрын

I'm not a native speaker but hell do I enjoy listening to him. I think it's the best spoken English I've heard for quite a while. He should do narrative work.

The serenity he speaks of comes right through in his voice and mannerisms. He really has found his niche in life.

@johnduffy6546

13 күн бұрын

Amen.

Love this kind of thing. Centuries old craft, still being kept alive by a quiet, dedicated, humble hardworking few. Well done men.

@fredfred6296

20 күн бұрын

most original walls were built by women...

@EternamDoov

20 күн бұрын

​@@fredfred6296They're clearly referring to the fellows in the video.

@jonb12321

19 күн бұрын

? You're indoctrinatec or have some non-truth agenda. I live in Yorks, do some dry walling, it's physically hard, women never did it apart from helping out, most dry walls we see today were built by gangs of men around the time of the Enclosure Acts.

@illbeyourmonster5752

18 күн бұрын

@@fredfred6296 Sadly, most claims about women tend to turn out to be more false than true these days.

@Philitron128

18 күн бұрын

​@@fredfred6296Where did you read that?

This man would be a good narrator for historical documentary.

@JH-lo9ut

12 күн бұрын

Yeah probably. But there are a lot of narrators but not so many people who knows how to build dry stone walls.

Most informative, the presenter was very well spoken and outlined the craft very well to make it easy to understand. Thank you so much

Beauty unto itself. I was raised country in rural Pennsylvania, an area where the farmers' best crop is rocks. They made permanent fences, and there are zigzag walls, where colonists put in rail fences, laying rails on rails without any binding for miles, followed by stone after the forests were removed. When learning walling, my father and uncles were adamant. If you can lay a good dry wall, you can build a house. When I moved to Arizona, one thing I did was hire someone to haul in rubble, and am still in the process of building retainer walls. thank you for this film. It takes me back to working with Dad and the uncles, laughing, joking, and maybe cussing a little. niio

Salutation from a Greek island covered with dry-stone walls.

@kbkesq

13 күн бұрын

Are all the trees cut down there too? Amazed how bare the land is in Yorkshire and how they didn’t think to plant even a few trees.

@JH-lo9ut

12 күн бұрын

Same on the island Gotland in the Baltic sea. Trees don't grow very tall and wood has always been in short supply. But the whole island is made from a sedimentary limestone that is easy to quarry and easily cut down to size. There are large areas with only a thin layer of topsoil, not fit for agriculture and where only sheep can graze.

Culture is the collection of a million little things you do every day, and dry stone walls are a perfect example of that. If you don't support your craftsmen, these glorious walls are what you lose. Of course, supporting the craftsmen is about more than just hiring someone to put up a wall because it's the laws, regulations, taxes and everything else we support which has a huge impact on the small businesses we normally pay no attention to. Everyone talks about the straw that broke the camel's back, but never the million straws that came before and how they prevented the camel from doing camel things.

My dad loves sharing the story of when he first started driving in Somerset and lost control on a corner and took out a dry stone wall just as the mason was putting the final stones in. My grandfather made him go back the next day, and for the week after, to help repair the wall.

@johnduffy6546

13 күн бұрын

Dang. THIS is how things should be. Your grandfather was a wise man and a great role model....Man, that just made my day! Thank you for sharing.

@the_millwright

13 күн бұрын

@@johnduffy6546 and it rubbed off as my dad taught me the same sense of responsibility, and I’m teaching it to my two boys.

@seeharvester

5 күн бұрын

And now you're all stone masons.

Once came across a gentlemen repairing a wall in Derbyshire. He was well over fifty and i asked him how long he had been walling . His reply was that his eighty five year old father was teaching him !😊

@SchoolforHackers

13 күн бұрын

Priceless!

One man + one year = one mile. Got it.

What's cool is that here in Kentucky we still build these in the same way. Our ancestors carried the technique across the Atlantic and kept it alive to today. Nice work.

@PetroicaRodinogaster264

17 күн бұрын

there is always one of you from there that has to brag, so self absorbed.

@uncouthboy8028

17 күн бұрын

There are far more stone walls that have been swallowed up than are visible in Kentucky.

@uncouthboy8028

17 күн бұрын

@@PetroicaRodinogaster264 What a resentful thing to write.

@bravo2966

16 күн бұрын

@@PetroicaRodinogaster264 What you think you are saying to them, you are actually saying about yourself. What a horrible self obsessed comment you've written.

@bravo2966

16 күн бұрын

It's great to hear these walls made it across the Atlantic. I live near the North York Moors and see these walls pretty much every day.

True craftsmanship! hello from the U.S.A. Beautiful work

Utterly absorbing - like the comment below, I could listen to that man for hours, he explains everything so well. I live in Burgundy in France, and have dry stone walls on my property that need some upkeep. Actually, that's something of an understatement. I still hope to be able to do the work myself at some point, and this little video has inspired me. Many thanks, Tom.

Hats off to the wallers! And to those who recognized and filmed these craftsmen. Thank you!

I’m obsessed with Masonary stonework just incredible works of art just mesmerized by the workmanship

Now I know roughly how to make them, I might try this on a miniature scale in my garden :)

@bravo2966

16 күн бұрын

How did it go?

@Fred-zc8lt

14 күн бұрын

Yes Dan. Did you give it a go? Were you able to build a small one?

Can't believe this was 20 years ago. Feels like a couple of years..

@spilledit

17 күн бұрын

I had farts last longer

Brilliant story teller. That man is a natural.

Beautiful work, Master craftsmen! Thankyou for sharing their expertise!

Very beautiful workmanship, pleasing to the eye as well as practical! All the stones in the fields can be used to border the same fields!!❤️😊

Brother there ain’t a stone mason to be found here in the States that can talk as proper as that fella. Especially in the rural areas (the dales). Impressive craftsmanship and a great video. Thanks for sharing.

I find dry stone masonry completely beautiful and almost mystical. I would love to someday make a short wall separating the front yard from curb area, and include an arbor trellis for some climbing roses. Here I'd have to buy the right stone to do it and it's expensive so for now it's a lovely dream.

I am a dry stone waller, all day I dry stone wall Of all appalling callings, dry stone walling's worst of all. ~Pam Ayers

@robinharwood5044

17 күн бұрын

First thing I thought of when I saw the thumbnail.

@user-ht4pp6ly1v

17 күн бұрын

Waah.😂

Magnificent walls , effective , of the place where they are , longer lasting than anything bar hedgerow. Great job . 👍🏴󠁧󠁢󠁥󠁮󠁧󠁿

True craftsmen can hardly put into words their appreciation for these skills, work done right is it's own reward !

Wow dude. Your calling, if not a waller, should have been a teacher. My grand kids would understand the basics of walling after this video. Well done.

@redwarf8118

16 күн бұрын

ok dude

This is quite a refreshing look into enduring fruits of the dry stone wall craft

The satisfaction you must get deep down inside when you look at that wall and say I built that with my own two hands must be a awesome feeling

There are great stone walls in Ireland ~ Built mostly with Limestone.

Beautiful, and strongly presented.

I grew up with much less crafted drystone walls throughout our farmland. The skills shown here are outstanding!

I admire the craftsmanship!

incredible. Admire this as you would the egyptian pyramids. THIS IS YOUR HERITAGE AND CULTURE. protect it

By the time he stepped through the squeeze stone, I was in awe of their patience, strength, and skills.

I fell in love with the Yorkshire landscape and these walls as a kid watching Last of the Summer Wine on PBS

I have to admit that, the squeeze through was really marvelously built. So elegant, it does go naturally with the landscape.

What a great video, and what a great group of people to carry on a tradition!

Fantastic mate, a pleasure to watch you all work .

Beautiful masonry. Having mostly flat rock to work with must be a joy. Here in northwestern U.S. the stone is glacial till and mostly rounded cobbles and boulders. Makes fitment a serious challenge.

@DedicatedSpartan

16 күн бұрын

They do some cutting to get it that flat.

@Madamoizillion

5 күн бұрын

I've seen dry stone walls made with rounded rocks, though it does look a lot harder to do.

What a blessing to do what you love doing as a lifelong career.... Hedgelaying, too....a work of art just to look at....

Great video. Somehow i got pulled in. "Just a quick peek, i told myself".... Now i want more.

A wonderful video to understand how this masterpiece of work has been done. Greetings from Germany. 🫡

Very nice work. He has the most soothing British accent I have ever heard

What a perfect short, sweet, yet fantastic video. Thank you for that.

He handsomely captures the concept of 'flow'', the effortless proficiency of a skilled craftsman ❤

Wonderful video. Drystone walls are a thing of beauty.

A mile of that a year per man is astonishing!

@kevinsavage808

11 күн бұрын

I don't know about you, but a mile a year is just 365 days. How many hours and days did they work a month, that in its self is incredible.

Rural England is such a beauty, also because of these walls.

As nice as a job it is and looks, when he said there were complaints about them at first. I can imagine so, what those beautiful rolling hills looked like without them... must have been stunning.

Thank you for this very interesting video. The walls are a beautiful piece of art dotting the landscape. 👏👏👏

@primelightfilmsltd1803

10 ай бұрын

Glad you enjoyed it!

@abdirisakdirie3124

3 ай бұрын

​ ​ If some body or animal bush the Dry stone wall is it collapsed

@cho4d

10 сағат бұрын

@@abdirisakdirie3124 it is strong! dry stone construction can sometimes last longer than mortar construction because mortar can fail over time. these walls are naturally stable and heavy enough to last 100 years.

I like how the stone work complements the countryside.

Thank you, oh mysterious KZread algorithm

Don’t you worry about some people calling the walls ugly, I think they looks great! Glad to see that groups like you and your good friends doing a great and wonderful jobs. Keep up the OLD WAYS and do teach this trade to the younger generation,so they can pass this knowledge on, peace and may GOD bless you all.👏👏👏👏👏👏👏👏🇺🇸🇺🇸🇺🇸🇺🇸🇺🇸🇺🇸🇺🇸🍺🍺🍺🍺🍺🍺🍺☮️☮️☮️☮️

Fantastic craftsmanship! My very first job was a trainee QS on the M62 and we had a gang of wallers, a real pleasure to watch.

Thoroughly enjoyed watching this thank you

Interesting and beautiful. I'm from New England, where we have the uglier, less cared for brother of these stone walls, the fieldstone wall. They were made from the meeting of two practicalities of life. The fields in New England grow stones more easily than any crop, so farmers needed to remove them to plow, and they needed to have markers between landowners and fences to keep sheep in. Building fences of stones made a useful way to dispose of them without carrying them far. These days the farmers have mostly moved to more fertile areas and the fields are woods. So if you go for a hike, you'll inevitably come across an old, falling down waist height wall.

Really interesting. In northern Spain, on a territory called "Valles Pasiegos", there is a similar landscape made of dry stone walls and stone cabins.

that is so beautiful

What a great short doco, on something i have always admired. Bias perhaps, as my family come from there. Looking forward to learning that skill myself one day.

In the Cevennes France there are dry walls, but the stones are not worked, but are used as is. The essential feature is that they are porous so they can't swept away by rain, because they provide no resistance to water.

not a single like, stuff, whatever, or literally said. love it

Great Video. Awesome Stone Artwork. God Bless You All - John 3:16

If nothing else, this video very effectively frames the capacity of iron tools for working stone. Distribution of such implements was spotty across the globe for a long period of human history.

Fascinating, and what a narrator and guide!

As a young guy I was on visit in 1979 in Huddersfield/ West Yorkshire. At that time I was very impressed by these many Stone Walls there. Today I am very happy to watch this very interesting Video. I am from South West Germany from around Esslingen.There, steep vineyards are still today terraced by " Dry Stonewalls". This also endless work was done by so called " Field-Masons" Thank you very much, good luck and all the best From Tschatscho Schwabo

Douglas Adam’s book ‘the meaning of Liff’ used the name ‘phrean’ to describe the feeling you get when looking at a really good bit of dry-stone walling.

It's so gratifying to see this kind of art continuing today!!! Here in the USA, if it's a few decades old, it's considered REALLY old, but there...ha!! Well, you get my meaning? There, across the pond, it's just life as it's always been. That's a comfort to me. Love seeing this brought out in such lovely detail. Love the craftsman that revealed it all for us! Thanks so much! ❤❤❤

amazing work , true heritage

Having worked with brother (a skilled mason) years ago and having atteMpted to gain basic competence in this art, I can say convincingly that it is not anywhere close to as easy to learn as this modest chap lets on. There are those that can and those that can’t

❤ Aloha 🌺 from Germany. Thank you so much for sharing this "know how" amazing! In northern Germany we do have a lot of little stones of granite... collected from the farmers... I love to build walls in our paradisegarden. 😍🙏

So interesting, how great to have a skill and craft like that and apply it to a practical use. 👍

Yorkshire is a beautiful place and the drystone walls and barns add to the beauty. Thank you for this video.

@ey954

12 күн бұрын

i don't get it when the waller said that some people says it look ugly.

DRystone or mortar... the natural look simply feels grounded. It's utterly beautiful. Not as artificial, cold and lifeless as concrete. Most likeable. Also, David does a marvellous job explaining things.

I dig the meditation aspect. Making badass things with our hands is reward like no other.

How wonderful that this really fine man is so able to get over in such a humble manner the whole feeling of people who are so dedicated to this craft, which should really be classified as Engineering, and those people who look on, and take joy and solace, understanding the skillful time and effort that these perfectionists have used to create such marvels.

I live in Puglia, in southern Italy, and it's impressive how similar the construction technique is to the drystone walls you can see down here.

I can never see a stone wall again without hearing gerald...

I learned so much from this video. 🥰 Thank you. 😊

WOW! How could anyone possibly think these are ugly? They are MAGNIFICENT! The skill, determination and just plain hard work involved makes them a treasured art form! I can easily see where this would be a meditative craft

@canislatrans8285

13 күн бұрын

Mid 19th century version of cookie cutter subdivision houses sprawl lol.

An eternally fluid rock laying genius.

Beautiful work!

It's good to see this ancient craft still alive.

Beautiful work

That was absolutely brilliant. Thank you

The old walls are still all over the place in different states of abandonment in parts of central MD USA. Some are more maintained, others are just scant remnants, and everything in between. Different kind of stones ( schist in 1 area, dark granite with iron ore in another), and most are similar to English style. The granite ones are like the ones in this video, but the toppings are different. The schists are like some walls have seen in other areas of the UK. Long flat slabs on top, but not the pointy/sharp style. There were a bunch of wall ruins on properties behind where I used to live. I found 1 stretch I could barely get close to due to the amount of brambles, that looked like it could have been 5 feet high originally. Another looked like a large square or rectangular corral. One property also had a stone lined road on it. 1 end lead to an old farm house, the other end sank into the swampy ground and we had to guess where it had been and lead to a county road still there. No one knows who built the walls and why there was a long well built stone road leading to a mid 1800's or so farm house. This is flat stones fitted to make a smooth road. Only a very wealthy person would have had that built back in those days. It was the middle of nowhere back then. Funny thing is there are a lot of German names in that area. Sietz is the listed name on a 1915 land survey for the old farmhouse with stone road. If the wall style is English, I'm not sure the Germans built them. And MD was a slave state, sooo, who built the walls?

What a fantastic passion! Great Video

Really enjoyed this.

Really nicely done. Thank you.

Absolute respect for those working this craft.

Excellent craftsmanship.

There are also thousands of miles of drystone walls in New England, in America. They are seen in the forested hills of Vermont and New Hampshire. When settlers first arrived, they cleared the land and farmed it, and built walls. Then they discover much more land to the west that was far easier to farm, so they let the forests regrow around the drystone walls.

beautiful video. salute to these craftsmen

Same walls in New England, US. The walls here stretched end to end would circle the world 4 times. All English and Dutch settlers clearing our rocky glacial landscape.

@judycook4314

17 күн бұрын

I watched a video about the stone walls in Maine. I understand they aren’t as tall due to the heavy stones, but at 3 feet are still very functional. Equally as interesting as this type of wall.

An amazing craft and a very eloquent chap explaining the construction.

Could listen to this chap all day long. Very knowledgeable and clearly spoken. Same as I could (and still do on KZread) listen to Fred Dibnah.

The walls are beautiful

This waller makes me want to build walls.