How to build a stone wall with Round Stone

This video is a bit of a tutorial about walling round shapey stone - outlining the similarities and differences between that and flat bedded stone.

[@davidsabbagh6815]

Enjoying the rain must be a prerequisite for stone walling. It's funny how it was pouring rain while everyone was working but cleared up once the wall was finished. I seem to recall rain being present in a large percentage of your videos. Keep posting more videos of your work.

[@drystone-tv]

Yep if you don't like rain you're knackered. It's something you get used to over time. All my most expensive tools are coats!

[@kaygherbaz3007]

Have found these videos really informative and of great help. I’m building a garden wall with field stone. Can’t wait to get into it now that I have gathered my stone and done some research. Cheers, 😊 October 2023

[@yvind1465]

How is it going?

[@user-hh3cz1km6h]

Good film! We call it field stone, rubble and create puzzle stone walls. Dry walling is the artist version of masonry. It's unfortunate, but San Pedro Canyon, AZ, has a heavy, deep layer of caliche and adobe. But, San Pedro river is all roundy-rounds, river stones. Walls created on this property are low, but good. Keep up the great work! niio

[@barrygreen3926]

love it....looks like a good day with good folk doing a great job...the finished wall looks brilliant

[@tyfe]

Getting it done with local stone - even if it’s round and pointy. Going to force myself today to use more stone from the ‘nugget’ pile. Hugs from Portugal 😘

[@pi1872]

You do amazing work. I'm blown away

[@richyf194]

I think you should more vids on Cumbrian stone. A well made wall of Cumbrian field stone takes some beating in my eyes. Congrats for the Penrith show.

[@drystone-tv]

Absolutely agree! I'm always very jealous of the stone variety of Cumbria and sandstone walls can look quite boring. I might have some gaps to do in Crook in the autumn so will film that.

[@brandonSpivey-vx4eu]

Lovely work and seems like a good gang.

[@drystone-tv]

Aye it's an awesome crew!

[@craigharby5050]

I can see a call from netflix coming.... fascinating content, well done.

[@drystone-tv]

We need more drama really! We'll have to do more videos about tar.

[@paulgorman8097]

“A small twist of fate” some great tips there at the end from that beardy dude who told you to F off earlier…😊 he was spot on with his advice, well I mean later…😅 tks for sharing, great vid.

[@adeabbott9142]

Great channel, down to earth Yorkshire man, please could you show a retaining wall build. Learnt a lot from watching your vids, thanks mate. I have taken a two day introduction to walling at Penistone. Then hopefully do the four dayer. The intention is to build a Granite retaining wall in France. Would this be a similar principle. Any advice welcome

[@drystone-tv]

Retaining walls as my absolute favourite jobs. As soon as I get another good one I'll make a video!

[@lucasolmos6719]

Love this channel and your content. Are the stones just held together by their weight? When you pulled the old wall down, you could see a cross section of the standing wall and it looked like there was dirt in the middle.

[@kevm9908]

Top bloke. Great work

[@GeneseeBen]

Lunk alarm 🚨🚨🚨

[@mamierouthier5697]

I wish there was more detail and video to walling irregular field stone.

[@drystone-tv]

I'll try to get another, more in depth video out this winter. cheers!

[@matthewfinger2381]

Yes, all these other people on youtube were blessed with perfect flat and angular rocks while I have to deal with melon shaped boulders lol

[@mamierouthier5697]

I appreciate that. I am planning to build a dry stone wall out of round Michigan field stone in the spring. I am collecting rocks and tools now.

[@stuartmcq2118]

sublime

[@jamesmorley5811]

Hi, really interesting to watch your channel, such skill, thank you. Do you know any dry stone wallers who work in the North Somerset area? We have several lengths of walling in very poor state that needs rebuilding. Could be a great job for a team or an individual in between other jobs. Many many thanks. James

[@drystone-tv]

Hi, cheers for watching. Your best bet is to go on the dswa.org.uk website and look on their professional register. Off the top of my head I think there are a couple of wallers down that way. Bert

[@jamesmorley5811]

@@drystone-tv cheers Bert. Will do.

[@kaygherbaz3007]

Thanks

[@drystone-tv]

thank you! bought me a couple of coffees!

[@CraBundy]

Do you know of anything in Scotland central belt that i could learn this trade on weekends? Like a charity type thing? Very keen to learn this, also stone and lime construction

[@drystone-tv]

There is a central Scotland branch of the DSWA. That would be a good place to start!

[@CraBundy]

@@drystone-tv Thank you! Will go investigate. And thank you for your lovely videos, definitely will be watching ongoing

[@hankmeg1]

Can you get Lydia to do Jazz Hands!😂

[@richardmullins1883]

Anybody else end up here after watching "the wandering turnip"?

[@CastleHassall]

could have saved a lot of work if you'd left the wall up? :)

[@bratty00]

How many tonnes for a 20meter 3 to 4 foot high sandstone wall? Planning on building my own but there's not a lot of stone on the land... any thoughts would be much appreciated mate

[@drystone-tv]

It's about 1 ton per meter² where abouts are you? I could point you in the right direction if you're in the North of England.

[@bratty00]

@DRY STONE TV stoke on trent mate... keep the videos coming man they're awesome really enjoy watching them!

[@d.thorpe2046]

why would you take this wall apart in the first place? just for a workshop? didn't seem much wrong with it.

[@drystone-tv]

This wall was kind of slumped and spreading, not as easy to see on the video but I guess you'll have to take my word for it haha. It was one of them where you take a bit down then realise the next bit and the next bit has to come down. We built it as a bit of a social thing for wallers just for the craic really.

[@d.thorpe2046]

i wrote that comment too early in the video, it looked great when you were done. @@drystone-tv

[@TheIlovetrolling]

Do you hammer/chisel the stone to make it fit very often?

[@drystone-tv]

Totally depends on the stone type. Stone like this is too hard to hammer really. The odd bit might come off but it will usually break the wrong way or break your hammer. With other types of stone you might make small alterations to each stone with the hammer .

[@TheIlovetrolling]

@@drystone-tv ah right, thanks. Do you use batter boards or just string lines?

[@drystone-tv]

@@TheIlovetrolling I use a batter frame if I'm building a new wall and want it to be really accurate. But I find that they will just make your work worse if you tried to put one up in a gap like this. Quite a lot of the time if I'm gapping I won't use a string at all. Learning to wall straight by eye is a very important skill and a fun one to learn.

[@TheIlovetrolling]

@@drystone-tv oh right, thanks. I work on an estate and I'm teaching myself to wall when I get a free day. Il give gapping without a line a go

[@Puukko79]

TELL ME HOW TO WALL!!! 😂😂

[@carlroge]

What’s your email lads?

[@drystone-tv]

*and lasses! My email is [e-mail]

[@carlroge]

@@drystone-tv my bad! Hadn’t watched it yet. Thanks