Learn how to build THIS! Work with NATURAL STONE!. Advanced tips from an active Stonemason! ***

Рет қаралды 144,489

4 жыл бұрын

A how-to for beginners shaping natural stone for walling with basic hammers and a pointed, carbide tipped chisel.
Check out how to use natural stone in this online course covering staircases:hardscapecanada.thinkific.com...
#chiseling, #naturalstone, #walling #hardscaping #masonry #stonemasonry #hardscaping #landscape #landscaping #baseprep #base #construction #masonry #diy #canada #hgtv #homeandgarden #project #garden #gardening #pavers #patio #backyard #ideas #patiomakeover #backyardmakeover #patioideas #diybackyardprojects #diypatio #paverwalkways #backyard #renovation #hardscaping #landscapingdesign #landscapedesign #landscapeconstruction #outdoorliving #patio #paving #driveway #walkway #hardscape #hardscapeinspo #backyarddesign #outdoorlivingdesign #landscapingideas #DIYhardscaping #hardscapeDIY #landscapingtutorial #landscapingtips

Пікірлер: 108

@llazarmarini5882 20 күн бұрын

Perfect job

@tomazpavlovic8560 16 күн бұрын

Bravisimo

@user-io9ln1or7c Ай бұрын

Simple and effective.Thank you Sir. 🎉

@metamorphosis8813 Ай бұрын

Man, it is such a hard and tedious work that eventually results in a masterpiece. No wonder that stonemasons have become philosophers in the past

@HardscapeCanada Ай бұрын

So true

@tysonberry4552 Жыл бұрын

You must've been taught really well it takes along time to make this look easy I've been taught by a master mason and have done some really impressive jobs out of natural stone. And it amazes me to see other artists work since we are a dying trade in younger generations I'm 23 yrs old but been doing this since I could literally walk great videos brother keep up that good work 👊👍

@HardscapeCanada Жыл бұрын

Love it Tyson you are the next generation to take this timeless trade into a truly modern era! Get it young man!

@lenturtle7954 8 ай бұрын

Ýý

@lenturtle7954 8 ай бұрын

@@HardscapeCanadaùùu

@urischwartz6711 8 ай бұрын

I love this kind of work and watching how it's made, beautiful things to last for centuries. I hope such age old professions never disappear. Big shoutout from a viewer in Israel.

@deedoubs 18 күн бұрын

Masonry is a pretty badass trade.

@HardscapeCanada 18 күн бұрын

Agreeeeeed

4 ай бұрын

wonderful work mate. Thank you!

@Simonsimon-fy3hq 4 ай бұрын

Top tip from my late grandfather (Master Stonemason) Don't waste time looking for the perfect stone to work with.Use the stone you pick up and make it work. (Corrected - with thanks to umairshah!)

@umairshah6358 2 ай бұрын

Are you sure that your father was a Master mason?

@Simonsimon-fy3hq 2 ай бұрын

Well spotted! A Master Stonemason of course.@@umairshah6358

@constantinbucur3243 3 ай бұрын

Super!

@FR-sr9sy 2 ай бұрын

Beautiful work!

@IgedeBejamin-by2wz Жыл бұрын

Great lecture

@hasnainali3233 Ай бұрын

Cool bro

@Soldadodelreyno 6 ай бұрын

Thank you 💯🤝🏼

@donrblx 4 ай бұрын

Good job!

@HardscapeCanada 4 ай бұрын

Thanks!!

@samuelallison4365 8 ай бұрын

Amazing work, very informative. Thank you 🙏

@HardscapeCanada 8 ай бұрын

You’re very welcome!

@Sierrabuildco Жыл бұрын

Aweome video brother! Thanks for sharing-hopefully I can incorporate these skills in our pools!

@HardscapeCanada Жыл бұрын

Thank you! Great to connect with you!

@damianpietrar4928 9 ай бұрын

My last name literally means stone mason, I got curious and I found your video. Nice job, keep it up!

@ModernPracticalStonemason 3 ай бұрын

Awesome video.

@HardscapeCanada 3 ай бұрын

Thanks!

@ModernPracticalStonemason 3 ай бұрын

@@HardscapeCanada I think you Canadian guys have a similar standard to Scotland when it comes to stone it’s nice to see it done well.

@MB-pl8ij Жыл бұрын

thx

@mehmetozugur7046 Жыл бұрын

It looks wanderfull.Thank you for educational video.😊

@HardscapeCanada Жыл бұрын

You’re very welcome!

@hudaverdiagalday8228 Ай бұрын

Teşekkürler selamlar sevgiler

@user-vd6ee2ng7q 10 ай бұрын

👍🇩🇿👍🇩🇿very good work

@MarcusT86 10 ай бұрын

Beautiful work mate. I'm in South Wales in the UK, and in clearing decades of debris and digging up my back garden to return it to a blank canvass, I've unearthed a tonne of buried natural stone, with which I'm going to attempt to create a retaining wall, so this amazing demonstration is the sort of thing I was looking for.

@HardscapeCanada 10 ай бұрын

Love it! Have fun building!

@jamescameron7633 8 ай бұрын

Good tips and nice work bro

@jamescameron7633 8 ай бұрын

Im a Stone Mason to keep up the good work brothers

@HardscapeCanada 8 ай бұрын

I appreciate it man!

@thusithasampath6132 9 ай бұрын

❤❤❤

@grantgalvin9854 Ай бұрын

This is great! I have a lot of shale/shale-like stone on my property. How would that work for building a stone wall, and what unique considerations might there be?

@HardscapeCanada 29 күн бұрын

Interesting! Shale can be tricky, you will have to be careful to lay the stone so that the layers/grain is level to the earth for max strength. Everything depends on the strength and quality of your specific stone!

@diegosalinas9463 Жыл бұрын

Esas piedras son Muy suaves

@frantisek_heca 9 ай бұрын

And also.. I am puzzled with the time spent working on the stones and my mortar hardening - how do you work with mortar, please? Still mixing small batches?

@adamwee382 2 ай бұрын

0:32 convex is outward and concave is inward. A cave is concave is how i remember it. Similar to how you remember that port is left because they both have four letters. Just dumb little tricks for remembering words that you very rarely ever use.

@HardscapeCanada 2 ай бұрын

Thank you!!! Much needed info!

@gary24752 6 ай бұрын

Did you use a NHL3.5 lime mortar?

@frantisek_heca 9 ай бұрын

Please, can I easily join nearly any stone format, only chiseling the front flat face, but not care about the other sides and fill the gaps with a lot of mortar? Sorry for the stupid question, but I am beginner and started to watch your videos first and I am not sure if this is the only way, or if this is the best way with minimum mortar? And the other (less work) way will also work, but there will be aesthetically lot of mortar, right?

@mrkps1986 2 жыл бұрын

Great your work , 👍👍👍 ,have you made a video about stone masonry tools?????

@HardscapeCanada 2 жыл бұрын

Thank you! My latest video is all about chisels!

@mrkps1986 2 жыл бұрын

@@HardscapeCanada 👍👍👍yes

@robhi3518 11 ай бұрын

Hey mate , great videos you have created. How would I best prepair the area if I build a dome? String won't work I assume. What else could I do the mark . Cheers to you

@HardscapeCanada 11 ай бұрын

Great question! Try mounting a 2x2 board in the centre on a swivel, it will allow you a reference for the dome shape. Check out some pizza oven building techniques here on KZfaq and you’ll see what I mean!

@mrkps1986 2 жыл бұрын

This talent has to be recreated, it's a common craft for 5 thousand years of human history,but now we have lost it almost I think 🤔🤔🤔🤔

@HardscapeCanada 2 жыл бұрын

Trying to keep it alive!

@mrkps1986 2 жыл бұрын

@@HardscapeCanada 👍👍👍for sure

@cortexavery1324 Жыл бұрын

Lost it ? What ? We nowadays know both about ancient methods and new ones, we are at the peak of stonemasonry, it's just used less cause we got more exigent, more particular about what material we use for which contruction.

@dmoeller0 Жыл бұрын

i started training last week!! lets goo

@mrkps1986 Жыл бұрын

@@dmoeller0 are you making videos.

@chameleonicblu22 7 ай бұрын

Beautiful! Aspiring wall builder here, specifically what kind of stone is this here?

@HardscapeCanada 7 ай бұрын

Hey! This is a mix of basalt and granite local to Vancouver Island

@vladstarchenko3005 Жыл бұрын

Really great looking wall! Curious what stone is this?

@HardscapeCanada Жыл бұрын

Much appreciated! It’s a local stone to Vancouver Island that is a mix of basalt and granite. We just call it ‘blast rock’

@russellradwanski5771 11 ай бұрын

Very good work! What sort of rock are those stones? I haven’t yet begun the building process, but I’m concerned that my type of stone will be more difficult to shape

@HardscapeCanada 11 ай бұрын

This is a mix of basalt and granite. It’s one of the hardest stones to work with! What type do you think you’ll have?

@russellradwanski5771 11 ай бұрын

@@HardscapeCanada I believe it’s a type of quartzite

@diveinnjim 2 жыл бұрын

how would you lay the first stone you dressed? I'm sure you would need to put a flat base on it so it would sit squarely on your wall, as it is it would simply slip off...

@HardscapeCanada 2 жыл бұрын

Hey Jim that’s a very good question. Yes this stone will likely need to have the sharper angle chopped back so to sits flat, otherwise it could definitely slip out when laying it and make it very challenging to work with.

@Mr.McWatson 9 ай бұрын

I'm guessing this is the kind of thing that pros make look easy? I would like to build a timbered house with a stone foundation someday, so I'm curious- how do you know the wall can hold up an entire house? Once the stones are mortared together, is it pretty much as strong as concrete?

@predragantonijevic9349 8 ай бұрын

One master told me that stones become stronger than concrete after many years. The wall is actually like one big tough stone.

@jasont4852 Жыл бұрын

Is there a particular type of rock you use? If I were to order rocks from a local delivery outfit, what would I order?

@HardscapeCanada Жыл бұрын

It all depends on your type of local rock. I would ask your local delivery outfit what they typically deliver for local landscapers!

@tysonberry4552 Жыл бұрын

Btw bro you gotta try using tungsten carbide tipped hammers you'll never go back to steel 👍👊

@HardscapeCanada Жыл бұрын

Yeah I’ve been meaning to get myself a carbide rock hammer!

@tysonberry4552 Жыл бұрын

They cut like a dream they're expensive but well worth it, just picked mine up about 2 years ago while working on a flagstone floor job and use it all the time, they're really good at keeping an edge longer than steel

@aubads Жыл бұрын

Nice stone. Length into the wall. Smallest end out with least realestate showing will last longest. Veneer stone with large faces outward is quick but has challenges with strength and aesthetic. Eg thin corner stones... Just a comment.

@HardscapeCanada Жыл бұрын

Thank you I appreciate it!

@jonathanvillegas1842 Жыл бұрын

is this a wall strong enought for people to sit and kids to walk on ? what type of rock is that ?

@HardscapeCanada Жыл бұрын

Yes but it depends on how wide of a wall you build, and if the base prep has been done correctly as well. You can cap a wall like this with a concrete or stone slab that would be great for sitting etc

@richardbeagan5039 2 жыл бұрын

Any recommendations on where to buy the tools?

@HardscapeCanada 2 жыл бұрын

Yes Micon tools out of Vancouver. They carry the best by far!

@richardbeagan5039 2 жыл бұрын

@@HardscapeCanada thank you.

@geoffgeoff143 8 ай бұрын

Is your pointed chisel tungsten carbide tipped?

@HardscapeCanada 8 ай бұрын

Yes indeed!

@jimbojackson2900 11 ай бұрын

How would this be achieved with rounded stones?

@HardscapeCanada 11 ай бұрын

With a river rock or round fieldstone you would build the same way, however stone selection will be key. You will need a lot of various sizes to pick from, and will have to take care and time to fit them as nicely together as possible. Then we would use mortar as a jointing to seal up the visible seams between the rocks.

@jimbojackson2900 11 ай бұрын

@@HardscapeCanada so it would be okay to split the rock and shape it with chisels like you did here? Or should they be left as is? Thank you!

@HardscapeCanada 11 ай бұрын

Most of the time we keep round stones intact instead of chiselling so it has a round appearance. You could chip away at the portions of the stone that won’t be visible to help them fit.

@memetfilik7127 2 ай бұрын

Turkish subtittles please

@jonathanvillegas1842 Жыл бұрын

also, so these walls don't require a footing I've seen some where they build a footing.

@HardscapeCanada Жыл бұрын

Yes it depends on the style, this type of natural stone wall is built 1/2 as wide as it is tall, and on load bearing clay or 6” of compacted road base, so it virtually becomes its own footing. For larger scale walls 4’ + I would typically pour a concrete footing. This stone is a mix of basalt and granite.

@opticecho6556 2 ай бұрын

How much does it cost you to get rock?

@HardscapeCanada 2 ай бұрын

It’s very cheap where I am! $40/ ton roughly

@guswilliams9603 11 ай бұрын

I’m 25. Is it too late to get into stone masonry for a career?

@HardscapeCanada 11 ай бұрын

Hell nah it’s not too late! If you’re interested in it then I would suggest giving it a try.

@guswilliams9603 11 ай бұрын

@@HardscapeCanada what’s the best way to get into it?

@HardscapeCanada 11 ай бұрын

Id suggest simply working for a local masonry company, trying to learn as much as possible on your own first wouldn’t hurt!

@guswilliams9603 11 ай бұрын

@@HardscapeCanada how did you get your start? And what age did you start? Is schooling at a trade store not necessary?

@Drbob369 3 ай бұрын

It's easier if you use alien technology like the pyramids 😅

@Amelia-wl4lq Жыл бұрын

Es terrible ver cómo se lastima su pierna al recargar las piedras para darles la forma deseada.

@HardscapeCanada Жыл бұрын

It's okay just a couple of bruises!

@JayFolipurba 8 ай бұрын

In the last 10 years or so, people have started building these disgusting "stone walls" around where I live. It's just loose rubble in a chicken wire cage. It's like: you had the materials, you could have made something nice, but instead it's so ugly, just rubble in a square wire prison, pure shape without structure. And it's especially bad because I live in a city with 100 year old ACTUAL stone walls and they just look right, which makes the no-effort modern ones even uglier.