I'm from Siberia, Russia, I"ve never put any stone to any dry wall. I have no idea why I'm watching it, but I can not stop. Thanks for your work it's really awesome.

Thankyou so much! your video is so helpful thankyou..i am going to try to fix my friends wall for them as they can't move about too well and the sheep on the surrounding croft are getting into their garden so I'm so glad i found your video thanks for helping us to see the proper good ways to do things.. hugely appreciated

Brazilian here, doctor's secretary, never built anything and here I'm wondering if I should build dry walls from stones for life. Good video (:

I love it. You folks are awesome. I love the top tips. Really concise, simple and clear. Especially, if you're spending 5 minutes on a stone, it's the wrong stone. That's excellent advice, for walling, and probably for life as well.

This video is boring... unless you're building a dry stack stone wall! Thank you for this well-done video. I'm grateful for the opportunity to learn, without having to travel.

DRY STONE TV... Gotta love KZfaq. This is perfect mate!

Best stone wall video on KZfaq

I'm doing some dry stone walling here in Ireland, I just came across this video and I think it's great. Well done and keep promoting your craft, it's not too many people who know how to build or repair these walls, well except old farmers here in Ireland but still a lost trade, congrats.

I'm 65 and wish I could tackle this! Your video is not boring at all. I feel blessed to sit and watch your amazing work. Seems like I'm right there with you! Interested in a video using small stones. Thank you for sharing this information in such a conversational way.

great stuff....dry stone walling down on Dartmoor with granite....different style but same principles......awesome videos...really appreciate you going to the effort of making them!!!

I worked for a pair of stone masons 40 years back . I was the labourer. When they let me build my first wall one of them walked on it when it was half way up . He said it passed .great videos

What a handsome and hardworking gentleman! And that mustache...

not boring at alllll!!!! im learning thank you!!

Wonderfully informative ! Certainly not boring ! You had my full attention. Thanks and keep at it.

This is fantastic content, thank you. Very enjoyable and informative.

Awesome guys, thanks. SO TRUE about NOT being in the stone manufacturing business!

I'm so happy I found your channel, what a lost art! I'm in Canada and trying to learn hedgelaying and dry walling is on the learning list ❤. You guys are amazing!!!!

These videos are terrific & Bert is very engaging throughout. Keep up the good work.

Loving the videos man keep it up.

From New York U.S. enjoying your videos, keep up the good work m8

Your craftmanship is beautiful and the content is excellent. Hope you keep educating us all. I love the close ups of you dressing the stone. Cheers from Canada!

I went to Bolton Abbey in Skipton, Bradford recently. I was amazed that the church shell structure has been without a roof for 400+ years and it looks strong as though it was destroyed less than a decade ago. As I looked at the stone wall boundary fence at the roadside, I noticed that the wall had three parts: Two parallel outer and inner walls and the gap between them filled up with mortarred heartings/fillings. The inner wall, at the open exit however, was pulling away from the joining center. Since I had watched your videos and believed in your method of overlapping stones, it was like further validation of your style. I have never built a stone wall but I hope to, one day, God willing, and I will build like you have tutored me. I hope I will be able to give feedback to my tutor. Thanks a million for sharing.

Great stuff.

Thanks for the great content

This looks sooo satisfying. And obviously you are very skilful! Thank you for the videos, very interesting and well explained.

Thank you, this was awesome. Beautiful work. Your comments were so helpful for learning the principles of walling. I'm so interested to see this grow higher and the other principles. I'd love to see a video for dry walling a foundation for a home. I'm going to watch some more of your videos right now.

Incredible video thank you ❤❤

Bloody satisfying

I'd love to see how you "finish" the ends of the wall. Great content, keep up the good work!

One more comment, not many channels as detailed as you are, thanks for the effort!

Had the dubious privilege as an American to live in Scotland for three years. During that time I became quite familiar with the ubiquitous stone dykes criss-crossing the land as evidently the country's main agricultural by-product is stone. I plan on building these types of walls on family property in the Ozarks as part of my retirement. Interestingly, we have these constructions featured on neighboring property but the walls themselves in the area are quite rare. Not for a lack of source material. I regularly refer to the land as: "a pile of rocks with some dirt and sticks scattered on it..." Thanks for the instruction as it is very informative and helpful

I once tried to repair a very old, slightly collapsed wall of a rustico in italy. This was impossible without any prior knowledge. The stones there are smaller and it's a real handicraft and even there there aren't that many people who can do it anymore. Thanks for sharing your knowledge.

Great video, part 3 please. cheers

Thanks heaps for sharing this man

Useful video cheers!

New fetish unlocked - Im in northern England for Holidays in October and looking forward to see some dry stone walls! Thanks

Lovely! Thank you for sharing your knowledge. I'm planning a cob barn with a good strong stone footing.

tip on proper use of face of hammer (bottom edge) is very helpful thank you

Great job man, great explanation good video, keep it up

Awesome 👏 👏👏

I'm building a dry stone fieldstone wall. This is fascinating! Writing from North Carolina in the United States.

This is incredible to watch and very informative. I’m curious, where do you find your stones? Did you have to get specific types or were they just laying around the yard? I’m wanted to build something similar but all I have is shale

This has absolutely nothing to do with my life in any way, but I thoroughly enjoyed watching it. lol

thanks!

I've seen many vids about dry stone walling and this is by far the most informative. Really great method. Cheers lads!

... Thankfully He's a True Northern Lad... Greetings from Saturn 🪐

Love the videos! Any chance you could do one on dry stone retaining walls? Cheers

You might see from my picture - I have built a bit with Big Logs. Yesterday I did a very rough dry stone arrangement to make steps to access a public beach. After watching this - I know what mistakes I made. PS Cheers from South Africa.

Is this a vertically-faced wall, or is there a batter on it? I come from an estate in South Devon, where hedges are stone-faced earth banks, narrower on top, but wide enough for a huntsman's horse to stand on briefly as it jumps the hedge. My great-uncle was the equestrian etcher Geoffrey Sparrow, and he immortalised his brother, my grandfather, jumping a hedge on his grey horse in the 1930s or 1940s. Such hedges are wonderful for wildlife, and hedgerow trees grow for centuries. My father, an ex-Royal Navy submarine captain, who married into the estate, would put strands of barbed wire across a slipped hedge, but I would keep an eye out for demolitions, and do it properly in stone. We had our own diused quarry on the estate that had supplied shillet for barns and hedges. Our hedges were laid with thin vertical stones - but with better stone from buildings free at that time, I never tried vertical shillet myself. Very challenging, I would think! / In the 18th century, we owned huge limestone quarries in Plymouth, where from 1812-1841 we supplied 4.5 million tons of stone for Plymouth Breakwater. / With quarrymen available, in the 1860s, a new road was blasted out of the side of a steep wood, down to a new one arch bridge across the River Erme, to form a drive 3/4 of a mile downhill - great fun on a bike! The wall against the very steep hill was made of really quite small vertically laid shillet, laid in rows. and very attractive. In 1886, the Elizabethan monor house was demolished, and a cut limestone house built. / They certainly knew how to use stone in the past, and it breaks my heart to see stone dumped or crushed when it has centuries of use left in it. I never used any cement, even for setts laid in the ground, as if packed tightly with earth, they did not tend to move, and they can be lifted and reused at any time. / Which is to say I love stone! I am a natural healer, and working with stone is a perfect healing technique. City life and people are what harms, whereas the best of country lie and people heals. They rush about faster and faster, sicker and sicker, while anone with CommonZense does the precise opposite! Best wishes, Zen cz4m.blogspot.com/2018/07/cz4m-mission-statement.html#stt_mnu /

Awesome video. I've seen some KZfaqrs use a clay mortar in a drier climate. What do you think about that?

Nice work ,subscribed. One of my least favourite myths about walling is "a good waller should never pick the same stone up twice" - usually from someone that's probably never picked a stone up in their life! Boils my piss! Do you hear that one much? (I'm a waller in Cumbria by the way)

Nice wall

This is brilliant content lads. With through stones I’ve seen mentioned before that a through stone should be used at set distance in your wall (one a metre?) what do you think to that?

I live somewhere with about the same weather as Moscow, hah, the frost line is almost 2m down, in your first video on foundations, you just talk about getting the organic soil off to get down to the mineral subsoil below, but what do you recommend as far as frost heave? If I have to dig the foundations down below the frost line, that's a huge amount of dirt to move, as well as more than double the stone I'd need for a 4-5' wall. Can I just take the top soil off instead? There are a bunch of 100+ year old stone walls in my area, that look more like they've had stone robbed from them, rather than theyve fallen over from frost heave, If you dont have experience with cold climate, I think I'll habe to disassemble a section and see of they have a deep foundation or not. Thanks again for the great videos. I've been fortunate enough to do several traditional apprenticeships, in wooden boat building and metal machining, and I'm fascinated by the "good stuff" that doesn't get written down in the books, and stone masonry is sort of the most famous as far as keeping the tricks secret, hah.

Fascinating. New Subscriber. I am American,so I have difficulty with your accent. I occasionally work on walls on my property. I am not even close to your talent mate. Cheers🍻🍻🍻🍻🍻🍻🍻🍻🍻🍻🍻🍻🍻🍻🍻🍻🍻🍻

Class videos big yin

i used to think the throughs were styles! are they used for that by people when getting about? or is it frowned on to use them for that? genuinely be useful to know the etiquette on that or should we always use gates etc?

I love your videos! I live in the US in New England. My house, like many, have a stone foundation. (Mine is stacked, not motared). If someone wanted to build a house with a stone foundation, should it go below the frost line? Also, would you recommend pouring a concrete footer even though they didnt do that in the 1700s? Thanks in advance

It's a little hard to follow some of what's said when English is not the primary language. Even my "CC" tool had trouble rendering much of what's said. I did, however, catch most of it. Very nice, indeed!!

Really tidy walling! What stone hammer are you using?

Brilliant. What kind of stone is that?

Hi from the desert, a novice dry stoner in the making. A question that you might have an answer for, is "sandstone" good for walling?

So would you suggest a heavy angle batter on walls that are used for stem walls for a house or garage OR straight up from first course ?

Very interesting, thanks. One question for you: is there a reason you don't use those chisels which have a flat plate at the end which protect your chisel hand from a misplaced blow from the hammer? Or are they just for noobs who aren't as accurate as experienced wallers who've been using hammers & chisels for years?!

Awesome video. What kind of stone is this?

It's almost like playing tetris, but if the stone doesn't fit you hammer the shit out of it until it does.

What coat is that you’re wearing in the rain?

absolutely fucked, love it.

I wonder, would you be interested in coming to New Zealand to work on a large (300m2) dry stone wall project? I can cover flights. Job is in the most beautiful part of the country Queenstown Lakes.

I want to build a low, 2 ft retaining wall. Does it need to be built like a regular wall, with 2 sides, or just one face side with threw stones and batter? Hard to find any videos on dry retaining walls.

it looks so effortless when you shape the stones. When i try to do it i hammer it for 30minutes. Is that some special rock?

Hi, Why is there no foundation in your build? I'm from the Netherlands and our soil is no rock. Mostly earth, clay and sand. What would you recommend for a foundation for dry stone wall on such underground?

How long would it take for one person to build a wall 5 ft high, 20 ft long?

Great craftsmanship! I’m surprised you don’t wear safety glasses, seems like bits of rock would fly into your eyes.

Hey, what brand of hammer is that?

Is limestone an acceptable building material?

I'm sending Bert a belt

Do you ever dig a trench first?

nice informative video!

Is no gonna talk about that cloud at 4:40 ?

... Blooming Eck... This Chap Can Move Around A Bit Sharpish. Fetting Whilst Walling. How Novel

Let’s “Crack On”

There are good reasons why medieval and earlier stone walls, buildings and roads have lasted. In a country filled with stone construction, we’d be fools not to closely listen to those who - through construction experience, not some theory - know how that lasting bit has been achieved!

you do not use any through stones?

Ok

Great video and content ... except for that damn chirping noise when the video speeds up!!!

Women hate that this is all a man needs in his life to be happy.

outside flat inside flat butting up on each other ;; spend no more than five mins on each stone ;if you are do better job selecting stone not manufacture them good info soon i hope to build a wall like a monument i can leave before i die

It’s sad that he feels like he has to justify providing the actual, experience derived, hands on knowledge of an ancient craft. I’ve spent my entire life believing that deep down inside every human had the intrinsic desire to dig a hole or build a wall, or a tree house. If I only knew now what I knew then.

I really appreciate the obvious high level of drystone skills demonstrated in these videos. However, i am a little confused re your comments about movement of foundation stones. What you say appears logical. But...i see in Stonework a Technical Guide to standards and identification of common faults in drystone walling,( by Sean Adcock ) that it is stated that; 'none of the stones should wobble when walked upon'. Given that this non movement of foundation stone seems to be?? one of the key criteria in achieving DSWA certification I find it interesting that you appear to be dismissing the ' foundation stone standard' as ' a total load of crap/myth made up by people who weren't wallers in the first place'. 😳

Turkish subtittles option please

Eeeehm. Otherwise, very entertaining and informative.

Is it a trade secret to not wear safety glasses when you are chipping rocks with a hammer?

All good except the music, that's boring.

Cracking videos to watch thanks. Without being that wanker (me) do you not wear eye protection?