Did they stop doing everything else to add in this enormous task? Farmers don’t live leisurely lives ;)

Many many enslaved in RI - blacks and native Americans.

Indians with farm animals ?

I have never seen a stone wall with multi ton boulders. It was not a single farmer it was thousands of farmers

engineerjay420 In 1871 the USDA estimated that it would take 15000 men working day and night 365 days a year, 243 years to build the 252,539 miles of stone walls. And Thorson and a few other authors tell us that most of the stone wall building between 1775 and 1825 (with no footnote) in which the Revolutionary War and the War of 1812 took place predominantly in the Northeast. In a mere 50 years!!!! 😅 Uh huh, ya OK and I suppose Unicorns and elves helped them and made cookies for them in trees.😜 The history these guys give is pure romanticized fiction. I'm going to do another video on this mythology these guys are creating real soon, I'm doing some research now. Check out my other videos on my channel if you are interested in this topic.

engineerjay420 I don't think that Thorson or these other guys are "bad" guys, they want to preserve the walls for posterity and that is good. But creating this whole fantasy about early New England is doing a disservice to Americans and to the history of mankind.

engineerjay420 yes,anyone whos been to Putnam co ny knows these r ancient....2000bc +

Jay, I just put up a video on my channel addressing this issue. Check it out kzfaq.info/get/bejne/Y7VdmKRzm7fJnqs.html

So here is the math. One man can build around 10ft per day, back then he would probably work 300 days a year. that's 3000ft per year. over 400 yrs = 1,200,000 ft or 227 miles. 1000 wallers and you're done, simple.

Agreed. People don't realize how hard the colonists busted their asses back then.

Yes, I'm from the New England area and a serious researcher on this subject doing "hands on work". Site your information resource that backs up your statement "It is documented". Professor John Delano Associate Dean Emeritus at SUNY Albany says he can't find any "documentation" and he's a supposed expert on stone wall history in New England but you have that documentation. That's great, post the link or links to your source material in this comment section so we can all go there and get educated because apparently, there aren't any academics that have documentation so this will be a total surprise for them. Thank you.

So here is the math. One man can build around 10ft per day, back then he would probably work 300 days a year. that's 3000ft per year. over 400 yrs = 1,200,000 ft or 227 miles. 1000 wallers and you're done, simple.

Andrew195407 Yes, the farmers built the walls but they had no time to farm because they were building stone walls and the small issue of inhospitable weather in winter and religious days, at least 52 Sundays, very religious in those days. But hey, whatever you say, they may have employed magic as well. Get bent pal, you are talking out your ass.

Colonists and settlers did build stone walls, some very nicely crafted ones. But they did not build all of them. The very primitive type, the type that are in very remote and inhospitable areas were not built by either colonists or settlers. They were built by an unknown race of people we hardly know anything about. My own research proves it and furthermore I have discovered aboriginal artwork built into the walls themselves in these remote areas, particularly Vermont.