I enjoy dyking and get a lot of satisfaction when it's done - but the thought of starting a slab puts me off. I'm useless at gate cheeks.
you'll have to translate slab and gate cheeks, north Antrim is close to Scotland but some of the lingo doesn't travel.( I think I know what you mean)About 2 or 3 topstones in from the very left, upto the step is what i rebuilt. I got the line slightly wrong, but i actually ran out of stone! We have plenty stone bings but i wasn't inclined to fetch any over and do it proper.
Iv never been trained/taught. Iv put up a lot of rough bits, too
or maybe the butt cheek
... sorry i'll go now.
we call it a slap instead of slab no idea why, cheek could be called anything,stop end, corner, butt end etc.
It's a gap round here, " i see you've got a gap down"
that would certainly make more sense if you looked up the three words in the dictionary
over here the field walls are almost all single skin walls, generally we have much bigger boulder type stones than you do. Plenty of them are just hanging together, It's a slightly different skill than double skin walls like yours. There's a stonewalling thread in Agricultural Matters I'll put up a couple of pictures and tag your name to it.(when I get the pics)
That's it, looks a tidy job [emoji106]
Mine involves a pallet, a broken hurdle, terrible walling, 3 different bits of old barbed wire and lots and lots of baler band [emoji23][emoji23][emoji23]If you stand in the trees looking into the field... you can see there are one or two big air gaps
Chucked that up in about 10mins
When making new windows/openings in walls here builders talk about "slapping out". Same principle I guess.
probably connected
