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Uploaded by on Dec 15, 2008

Dry stone walling demonstration at the 2008 Heritage Skills Fair, Gibside.

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  • why do you put those vertical stones on top?

  • @bamptonbred most wallers will charge say £10 - £20 per hour and do around 10 meters per day

  • Why all the cursing? Seriously, if you cannot keep a civil tongue, do not comment. Enough already.

  • What the FUCK are we looking at his head for when he is showing how to build the wall DICK HEAD CAMERA MAN

  • He learned to make walls to keep the Germans out.

  • How much money can you expect to make doing dry stone walling?

    There is some company in oxford charging £80 per square meter. that seems alot to me

  • @MstislavRousseau And again, demonstration sucks. Yes, at 1:20 he addresses the importance of covering as many joints as possible and he doesn't actually do it, 5 sec later he said:"We didn't have any long 'Through' stones"... ah for feck sake! He wasn't asked to the demostration half an hour ago, was he? Be prepared, Lead By Example. Anybody could do what he does: pretend this stone is longer and this one is shorter, this stone doesn't cover the joint, but we'll pretend that it does. Job done!

  • @Panterex I think it's a fine demonstration. You may have noticed that at about 1:20 he addresses the importance of covering as many joints as possible, though you are right, there is A running joint. I'm sure he wouldn't have let it slip it if this wall were to be permanent. But because this was a demonstration at a fair, I'm guessing he had less than the usual amount of stone to work with and was more interested in teaching people about building with stone than doing an absolutely perfect job.

  • @cartoonhead2 Probably only if you offer it as a specialty as part of a landscaping business. It's very attractive when done well though, so perhaps if you find a big enough area with enough interested customers you could make your way.

  • When I joined the DSWA uk this guy was sitting his L2 test, as I was, I'd been working 25 yrs in Walling, had hurt my back, burst disc, so wanted to get into training, He failed his test, I passed, he was booked on an Instructors course, and I got his place as he had failed, a few weeks later I did my L3 Advanced test , in the meantime he had written a letter to DSWA Northumberland Members that as there was a shortage of Instructors there would be no more training that year......

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