Stonewalling

[Darren Hough]

Maybe if we hassle him enough @Darren Hough could put some pics of the drystone walling legend , brian hough,s work etc

or even some of my own

 

[Landyman]

or even some of my own

Well i suppose second best will do, at a pinch

 

[glensman]

I fixed the end of this wall after it collapsed near the end of the big stone, this should give you an idea what most of the field walls are like over here @TexelBen. @Nithsdale Farmer

 

[Kevm]

Is that just one stone wide? surely it would be way more sturdy to make it two wide then put one on the top crossways.
They are what I call "rumblestones" been rumbled about in a glacier for a few million years, it's like trying to build with footballs.
If you put cattle in there would they push the wall over?

 

[KMA]

Its known as a Galloway dyke round here, they pulled some of the base stones into place with horses, there are some on my brothers place. I spent most of my life on stuff that had been rounded off by glaciers, it was like stacking bowling balls and footballs, mix of stones but mostly blue whin which you can split ok if you get it as it comes out of the ground but is a bugger if it gets a chance to dry out. The old guy that taught me (Willie Jardine) reckoned if you learned to dyke on our place you could dyke anywhere.

 

[glensman]

Is that just one stone wide? surely it would be way more sturdy to make it two wide then put one on the top crossways.
They are what I call "rumblestones" been rumbled about in a glacier for a few million years, it's like trying to build with footballs.
If you put cattle in there would they push the wall over?

no doubt it would be, but they were built that way for a reason. The stones are so big it would need to be a hell of a width, this would lead to running out of material for the length of the wall. The wall in the picture is about 500m long.

 

[KMA]

All the dykes on our old place were built with stones straight off the fields but originally with sandstone thrubands at regular intervals at 2 levels. By the time I came to be repairing them the thrubands were few and far between and it was a case of stripping the slaps back until you had something stable enough to tie into and always against dad's stopwatch. As a result my dyking tends to be functional field dykes rather than decorative. I'd quite like a chance to work with some of the sedimentary stuff I see around the country - slate, sandstone, limestone and the like.

 

[JohnGalway]

I fixed the end of this wall after it collapsed near the end of the big stone, this should give you an idea what most of the field walls are like over here @TexelBen. @Nithsdale Farmer

Looks similar to whats here, reckon your stone is a little better for building maybe.

 

[glensman]

Looks similar to whats here, reckon your stone is a little better for building maybe.

I drew some good stuff from an old derelict dyke on the other side of the field, the most our stone is round and horrible probably something like your own.

 

[KMA]

Repaired a gate cheek over at Dalbeattie a couple of years ago seemed to be all granite off the fields, looked quite similar kind of stone, if you can find a straightish edge somewhere on them you're doing well all wedging, pinning and chinking.

Demolishing an eyesore outside the house just now, apart from the odd broken curling stone there's some nice sandstone in it. I've already started sorting it out I really need to just walk away NOW!!

 

[itsintheblood]

Finished this a couple months ago , always was a bit of a pinch point in the lane, so thought I'd do a proper job whilst I'm about it , widened by about 2 1/2 feet

 

[KMA]

Very nice job, sort of hedge/dyke combo, quite a few like that round the St. Bees area of West Cumbria.

 

[NW Ferreting Service]

HI Guys

We may able to help protect some of your walls withing the NW of Cumbria, Lake District.
Further areas possible.

 

[egbert]

 

[egbert]

what I was up to last spring, taking poxy vernacular single skin garbage - well, it kept in sleepy South Devons- and fixing it.

 

[Hilly]

I built a stone wall in the living room .

 

[reverand]

Atlas stones. Nearly killed me that end one

 

[Gator]

Atlas stones. Nearly killed me that end oneView attachment 855738

Roll it up ya chest ??

 

[reverand]

Roll it up ya chest ??

I’m getting older

 

[itsintheblood]

Still here widening gateways