How to build a Dry Stone Wall: The Basics

[@bobowbomboween8901]

نحنا بحاجة إلى الكثير من هذه الفيديوهات التعليمية، نعيش في قرى جبلية ريفية كل مدرجاتنا الزراعية والسواقي بناها أجدادنا بالحجارة ولا نعرف كيف استطاعوا بنائها هذا الفيديو يعطينا نبذة عن حجم انجازاتهم ، شكرآ لك 🎉

[@drystone-tv]

I will make a video for you about building stone terraces! Thanks for watching!

[@geoffgeoff143]

Love to see more work with " rounded" stone. Field rock.

[@bossofthemoss450]

Another great example of craft skills that we mustn’t lose. Many congratulations on sharing this content 👏👏👏

[@geoffgeoff143]

The hardest working you tubers out there.

[@drystone-tv]

for sure!

[@RobertMillo]

Superb content! Kudos to the pair of you for sharing your skills and craft. It's truly appreciated guys. Keep up the great work. 👍

[@davidsabbagh6815]

Enjoyed the video. In future episodes could you discuss using round stones? Those kinds of rocks are very prevalent here in Detroit, MI.

[@drystone-tv]

Absolutely, in fact I'm doing a wall in a couple of weeks that's all irregular stone so I'll get it filmed.

[@charlesbenedictrai4252]

Thank you for the invaluable lesson 🙏🏻

[@pablolynch1152]

Away from not closing up the camera you do a good job

[@drystone-tv]

Yeah deffo! This was our first attempt at a video and there's a lot I'd like to change about it now. We'll probably re-do it at some point.

[@zannafidler2466]

@@drystone-tvI’m very appreciative of your guidance, thank you so much. I live in Canada with five huge piles of smallish bluestone and wish I could get my hands on sandstone as well to put something amazing together. I’m a gal cub so smaller rock felt more doable. In 2008 when I arrived here I tucked into stone landscaping with huge rocks to help the wasbund and got a years worth of arm tendinitis fir my efforts! Anyway, no matter your nascent sound recording beginnings you all ROCK and I am never bored listening to your wisdom 🙏🏻⚒🙏🏻 Many ta’s.

[@jonathank7421]

Hi Dry Stone TV. This is super useful tips and tricks of the trade. Very happy you are sharing this so that walls can be done right! Was wondering, have you done a video yet on ‘’batter’’ and working out the width of the wall? / how it withstands pressure? It would be very helpful to get that stuff explained in detail as well. Salutations from Norway. Here we have a lot of traditional dry stone walls for foundations / base floor on houses, and stone bridges. Looking forward to more content from you guys!

[@drystone-tv]

Hi there! This kind of content has been on my mind for a while. Its all about waiting for a good situation to film and trying to sort out my thoughts in my head on that subject.

[@homeonthemountain]

This is great guys, thank you

[@drystone-tv]

Cheers man

[@geoffgeoff143]

Your work is so much tighter

[@drystone-tv]

A little bit aye, the wall originally was built by complete beginners

[@willnicholson7169]

Just found your channel. It’s really great. I’m confused by this rebuild though…It’s blindingly obvious that your repaired gap is better built, the rocks are laid more structurally and the gaps are much smaller. This should mean that you need more rock to finish the wall section. However, you’ve got a pile left over. Is this dry stone physics?

[@geoffgeoff143]

You have good srone there.

[@denisconor648]

Great stuff.

[@plutonium6280]

The first layer would look great as paving.

[@jCrItCh5]

Bootiful...

[@glennsmith3303]

excellent, thank you

[@brodiering]

How do you only have 11k subs? Excellent channel! 👏

[@MikeF66]

Awesome 👍

[@PeterLee-zn3jl]

Dry stone dovecote done by a crew is REALLY AMAZING.. YOU MUST SEE THATThis is the basics..here , Looks better now

[@oneGodtobe]

Nice solid wall. I wonder how to estimate enough stone to build, for example, a two- meter long wall?

[@drystone-tv]

@oneGodtobe there's a nice easy way to work it out. For a 1m tall wall It uses 1ton per square meter. So 2m x 1m = 2tons

[@oneGodtobe]

@@drystone-tv ty

[@johnwayne3085]

I've been taught not to use pins under the base stones. Dig the base stone in slightly instead. Also no pins should be visible in the outskide of the courses. Cobble pins should only be fill, never seen. I'm not saying the wall in the video won't last 100s of years. Im just talking technique. Good video!

[@oilageman9883]

OMG, can you imagine miles of that?!

[@thefrisianviking28]

That's one big scary dog in the thumbnail.😅

[@Inheritedworkfone]

Easy peasy with these flats but whole different ball game where it’s all boulders round my location

[@drystone-tv]

Boulders are easier than flat stone in my opinion. In fact it's all easy when you know how to do it.

[@snakeeyes3733]

I know this is probably a mortal sin for even asking, but if I wanted a more permanent structure should cement be used in any capacity at all? I have a big pile of sandstone gathered up and wanted to build a stone wall and some planter boxes out of it. If it were going to be dry wall I would be afraid that the same thing would happen with the new wall as what happened to the original wall. Literally it was destroyed by vines, thickets and hawthorn uprooting it.

[@rncharrison]

Depends how permanent you want? most of the dry stone walls you see out in the country side are well over 200 years old. Also these walls move with the conditions where as adding cement makes them prone to trapping water and freeze thaw. So if built well and you’re not planning on living for more than 200 years I think you’ll be good.

[@snakeeyes3733]

@@rncharrison Thanks for the advice mate. It would really need to be bound together for this purpose though. I don't want any roots growing out of the wall.

[@hankmeg1]

Bill’s outfit is very confusing… was it warm or cold out that day?😂. Should have been some singing!👍

[@rollovaughan]

I worked with an old farmer many many years ago. It was a really hot summer and we were drystone walling in Holmfirth. He had a flat cap and overalls on. When asked why he didn’t go bare chested like everyone else he paused, looked into the distance and said “ paranoid ov wetha chanjin!” Followed by “Might unduu top button ore twoo”

[@ryanpedersen5722]

Im curious do you ever have a lots of rocks left over? Do you have to over order cubic meters for a stone wall? If so what do you do with left over rock?

[@drystone-tv]

We don't ever have much left over, just a few pieces normally then that stuff gets taken to the next job.

[@kennethcurran]

👍

[@IeuanBevan.]

How long did it take you to build that?

[@drystone-tv]

Couple of hours

[@IeuanBevan.]

@@drystone-tv any idea how many hours exactly or roughly😂

[@pikachuchujelly7628]

Are these really expensive?

[@drystone-tv]

Depends what you mean. They cost more than a wood fence but last 10 times longer. Very cheap if you DIY but labour of a waller isn't that cheap.

[@pikachuchujelly7628]

@@drystone-tv Seems like a bit of work, but they look quite sturdy. Do they hold up well against severe wind and falling tree limbs. I'm in a part of the US that gets plenty of hurricanes, and am considering putting one of these up.

[@dreamwell2020]

Ancient wisdom is good to share. My only quibble clashes with the local tradition. I propose that the wall top should be paved with those same stones so as to serve as an elevated public pathway.

[@BaumerPaulGefreiter]

5:56 construction supervision?

[@drystone-tv]

Haha. Grand master that dog

[@charlottewilliams7866]

Thank you for the instruction! Music is awful and too loud compared to your voice.

[@drystone-tv]

our first video.. before we had microphones. might be a good idea to re-film it!

[@charlottewilliams7866]

Or take the audio out and replace it with voice-over narration. I recently watched a video by a woman who makes willow fences and structures. Instead of competing with the wind she just went about her work and added narration later. Brilliant ☺️

[@SenorTucano]

Can’t hear you mate

[@drystone-tv]

Aye this was my 1st video before I had a microphone.

[@michael2934]

It looks worse than I did before. It don't match. Sorry

[@skitzochik]

ruin the video with music

[@ImZyker]

great help friends, i hope this helps me get better... my father always talks shit on how i build ... i like your boots, what brand are they?

[@drystone-tv]

These boots are Buckler, they're OK but there are definitely better boots out there. Don't take any notice of your old man, just focus in what you're doing and results will come.

[@rottenheavenly6245]

Where I used to live in Turkey they don't know much about crisps lines

[@drystone-tv]

That's a shame, all you need is a piece of string and your walls can be very crisp! Maybe they'll see my videos one day hah

[@rottenheavenly6245]

@@drystone-tv maybe…they only string they know is the string holding up their trousers