Yorkshire Crafts: Meet the drystone wallers

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  • @helengrant3475
    @helengrant3475 7 місяців тому +809

    I could listen to that chap all day, he's well spoken

    • @tyronwheatley2306
      @tyronwheatley2306 7 місяців тому +36

      His voice was music to my ears

    • @lairddougal3833
      @lairddougal3833 7 місяців тому +64

      Note the absence of moronic fillers in his delivery. No ‘likes’, no ‘you knows’, just clear understandable statements. I counted a single ‘um’. This should be shown to every school kid as an example of good communication.

    • @ForkOffjewgle
      @ForkOffjewgle 7 місяців тому +38

      He's a product of a functioning education system

    • @seanseoltoir
      @seanseoltoir 7 місяців тому +10

      There are a lot of different accents in the UK... Some are easily understood and others are quite difficult... It's really surprising that they can have so many noticeably different accents so close to each other in such a small country...

    • @kevdimo6459
      @kevdimo6459 7 місяців тому +14

      There’s not much better than watching a master craftsman plying his trade, and creating something so unique and beautiful! 👍🏼👍🏼

  • @libertyvilleguy2903
    @libertyvilleguy2903 7 місяців тому +336

    Love this kind of thing. Centuries old craft, still being kept alive by a quiet, dedicated, humble hardworking few. Well done men.

    • @fredfred6296
      @fredfred6296 7 місяців тому

      most original walls were built by women...

    • @BodywiseMustard
      @BodywiseMustard 7 місяців тому +9

      ​@@fredfred6296They're clearly referring to the fellows in the video.

    • @jonb12321
      @jonb12321 7 місяців тому

      ? You're indoctrinatec or have some non-truth agenda. I live in Yorks, do some dry walling, it's physically hard, women never did it apart from helping out, most dry walls we see today were built by gangs of men around the time of the Enclosure Acts.

    • @illbeyourmonster5752
      @illbeyourmonster5752 7 місяців тому +17

      @@fredfred6296 Sadly, most claims about women tend to turn out to be more false than true these days.

    • @Philitron128
      @Philitron128 7 місяців тому +7

      ​@@fredfred6296Where did you read that?

  • @siggyincr7447
    @siggyincr7447 7 місяців тому +360

    As impressive as the craft of dry waling is, this man has a talent for narration and story telling that is what really caught my attention.

    • @nofurtherwest3474
      @nofurtherwest3474 7 місяців тому +7

      He has a soothing voice

    • @fulop._.szilard3000
      @fulop._.szilard3000 6 місяців тому

      Wanted to highlite the same, its so important to chose the right narrator for these kind of shows/documentaries.
      He did an excellent job of describing the history and process...u just watch the whole thing even if, even if u arent interested.

  • @bmedicky
    @bmedicky 7 місяців тому +204

    The waller is as articulate in explaining the craft as he is skilled in actually laying the stones. A marvellous little film.

    • @nikita3.14
      @nikita3.14 6 місяців тому +4

      I'm not a native speaker but hell do I enjoy listening to him. I think it's the best spoken English I've heard for quite a while. He should do narrative work.

    • @bernardhill1622
      @bernardhill1622 6 місяців тому +2

      Indeed ❗👏🏻👍🏻🙇‍♂️

  • @42lookc
    @42lookc 7 місяців тому +156

    The serenity he speaks of comes right through in his voice and mannerisms. He really has found his niche in life.

  • @stephenbrown571
    @stephenbrown571 7 місяців тому +82

    This man would be a good narrator for historical documentary.

    • @JH-lo9ut
      @JH-lo9ut 7 місяців тому +1

      Yeah probably.
      But there are a lot of narrators but not so many people who knows how to build dry stone walls.

  • @secondhandlyon2603
    @secondhandlyon2603 7 місяців тому +75

    What's cool is that here in Kentucky we still build these in the same way. Our ancestors carried the technique across the Atlantic and kept it alive to today. Nice work.

    • @PetroicaRodinogaster264
      @PetroicaRodinogaster264 7 місяців тому +3

      there is always one of you from there that has to brag, so self absorbed.

    • @uncouthboy8028
      @uncouthboy8028 7 місяців тому +3

      There are far more stone walls that have been swallowed up than are visible in Kentucky.

    • @uncouthboy8028
      @uncouthboy8028 7 місяців тому +32

      @@PetroicaRodinogaster264 What a resentful thing to write.

    • @bravo2966
      @bravo2966 7 місяців тому +22

      @@PetroicaRodinogaster264 What you think you are saying to them, you are actually saying about yourself. What a horrible self obsessed comment you've written.

    • @bravo2966
      @bravo2966 7 місяців тому +16

      It's great to hear these walls made it across the Atlantic. I live near the North York Moors and see these walls pretty much every day.

  • @the_millwright
    @the_millwright 7 місяців тому +51

    My dad loves sharing the story of when he first started driving in Somerset and lost control on a corner and took out a dry stone wall just as the mason was putting the final stones in. My grandfather made him go back the next day, and for the week after, to help repair the wall.

    • @johnduffy6546
      @johnduffy6546 7 місяців тому +11

      Dang. THIS is how things should be. Your grandfather was a wise man and a great role model....Man, that just made my day! Thank you for sharing.

    • @the_millwright
      @the_millwright 7 місяців тому +8

      @@johnduffy6546 and it rubbed off as my dad taught me the same sense of responsibility, and I’m teaching it to my two boys.

    • @seeharvester
      @seeharvester 6 місяців тому +8

      And now you're all stone masons.

    • @CastleHassall
      @CastleHassall 6 місяців тому +1

      i hope you all learned to drive more slowly on bends in the road too!!!

    • @louisegogel7973
      @louisegogel7973 5 місяців тому +4

      That is the way! Have people redeem their mistakes and not only does it make things better for all, it gives that person a chance to learn a skill that will serve him or her all their life.

  • @threeriversforge1997
    @threeriversforge1997 11 місяців тому +52

    Culture is the collection of a million little things you do every day, and dry stone walls are a perfect example of that. If you don't support your craftsmen, these glorious walls are what you lose. Of course, supporting the craftsmen is about more than just hiring someone to put up a wall because it's the laws, regulations, taxes and everything else we support which has a huge impact on the small businesses we normally pay no attention to. Everyone talks about the straw that broke the camel's back, but never the million straws that came before and how they prevented the camel from doing camel things.

  • @NZbird
    @NZbird 3 дні тому +2

    And here we have a narrator in the mould of David Attenborough and Jacob Bronowski - absolutely world class and thank you sir! Best wishes from New Zealand.

  • @ronniechilds2002
    @ronniechilds2002 3 місяці тому +4

    As an American tourist in Northern England, I had the good luck to attend an agricultural fair, out in the middle of nowhere. One of the events was an in situ dry stone wall building demonstration. Believe it or not, a lot of technology goes into building these magnificent structures. The two sides are leaning slightly inwards, each side constantly trying to fall into the other, using gravity to hold the opposite up. As he said, some of these walls are truly ancient. In certain places they are many hundreds of years old and still doing their job. Amazing.

  • @dougtheviking6503
    @dougtheviking6503 7 місяців тому +39

    True craftsmanship! hello from the U.S.A. Beautiful work

  • @Dancing_Alone_wRentals
    @Dancing_Alone_wRentals 7 місяців тому +8

    By the time he stepped through the squeeze stone, I was in awe of their patience, strength, and skills.

  • @BC-yd6dl
    @BC-yd6dl 6 місяців тому +8

    I watched a video about hedge laying and now these dry stone walling videos are also in my feed. I love it.

  • @Hashashin_Fidayin
    @Hashashin_Fidayin Рік тому +12

    Beautiful work, Master craftsmen! Thankyou for sharing their expertise!

  • @thomashiggins4923
    @thomashiggins4923 7 місяців тому +19

    Utterly absorbing - like the comment below, I could listen to that man for hours, he explains everything so well. I live in Burgundy in France, and have dry stone walls on my property that need some upkeep. Actually, that's something of an understatement. I still hope to be able to do the work myself at some point, and this little video has inspired me. Many thanks, Tom.

  • @Tyrfingr
    @Tyrfingr 6 місяців тому +7

    I have to admit that, the squeeze through was really marvelously built. So elegant, it does go naturally with the landscape.

  • @welshman100
    @welshman100 7 місяців тому +4

    As nice as a job it is and looks, when he said there were complaints about them at first. I can imagine so, what those beautiful rolling hills looked like without them... must have been stunning.

  • @LukeLongboneOfficial
    @LukeLongboneOfficial 7 місяців тому +7

    Brother there ain’t a stone mason to be found here in the States that can talk as proper as that fella. Especially in the rural areas (the dales). Impressive craftsmanship and a great video. Thanks for sharing.

  • @TheJrak47
    @TheJrak47 7 місяців тому +22

    I’m obsessed with Masonary stonework just incredible works of art just mesmerized by the workmanship

  • @StroMedia
    @StroMedia 7 місяців тому +7

    Hats off to the wallers! And to those who recognized and filmed these craftsmen. Thank you!

  • @PieterBreda
    @PieterBreda 7 місяців тому +12

    Brilliant story teller. That man is a natural.

  • @eladlutz
    @eladlutz 7 місяців тому +9

    True craftsmen can hardly put into words their appreciation for these skills, work done right is it's own reward !

  • @stephenrice4554
    @stephenrice4554 7 місяців тому +10

    Magnificent walls , effective , of the place where they are , longer lasting than anything bar hedgerow. Great job . 👍🏴󠁧󠁢󠁥󠁮󠁧󠁿

  • @OFmissleanalee
    @OFmissleanalee 4 місяці тому +2

    I live in Arkansas, USA and we have these everywhere! Lots of traditions came from other parts of the world. I’ve learned to build them to some degree myself on my land!

  • @jamesdavid7099
    @jamesdavid7099 6 місяців тому +4

    "The mind can go elsewhere".....exactly right. The sign that you've mastered your craft. These types of walls can be found in Ozark county, Missouri, where my family homesteaded.

  • @paulnicholson1906
    @paulnicholson1906 6 днів тому +1

    I grew up in Derbyshire and took care of things with my dad. He taught me stone walling but we called it gapping. Basically it was repairing where a wall had collapsed and needed building back up again to keep the cows in etc. That was pretty common. A few years ago I was visiting and when taking a walk along a road I saw a wall that needed a bit of attention so I couldn't help myself but put it right again. This guy doesn't have much of a Yorkshire accent if you ask me but his enthusiasm for the "art" makes up for it.

  • @lollihonk
    @lollihonk 6 місяців тому +2

    Wow this shows how primitive our "walls" and fences are today. This is true craftmanship. ❤

  • @denjhill
    @denjhill 7 місяців тому +11

    Beautiful masonry. Having mostly flat rock to work with must be a joy. Here in northwestern U.S. the stone is glacial till and mostly rounded cobbles and boulders. Makes fitment a serious challenge.

    • @DedicatedSpartan
      @DedicatedSpartan 7 місяців тому +1

      They do some cutting to get it that flat.

  • @dougbennett9685
    @dougbennett9685 6 місяців тому +3

    This is quite a refreshing look into enduring fruits of the dry stone wall craft

  • @jimmartin7437
    @jimmartin7437 7 місяців тому +10

    Wow dude. Your calling, if not a waller, should have been a teacher. My grand kids would understand the basics of walling after this video. Well done.

    • @redwarf8118
      @redwarf8118 7 місяців тому

      ok dude

    • @louisegogel7973
      @louisegogel7973 5 місяців тому

      Have they seen the video yet? Let us know what they think of it, please.

  • @dabroncobabe
    @dabroncobabe 2 місяці тому +3

    Fell in love with those gorgeous walls when I was in England and just saw a beautiful one in Tennessee!!

  • @brianwhite9555
    @brianwhite9555 5 місяців тому +3

    Monuments to man's ingenuity. Turning a free resource, stone, into a functional component of the landscape. Marvelous!

  • @andrewburbury2261
    @andrewburbury2261 6 місяців тому +7

    Most informative, the presenter was very well spoken and outlined the craft very well to make it easy to understand. Thank you so much

  • @MarSchlosser
    @MarSchlosser 6 місяців тому +3

    Beauty unto itself. I was raised country in rural Pennsylvania, an area where the farmers' best crop is rocks. They made permanent fences, and there are zigzag walls, where colonists put in rail fences, laying rails on rails without any binding for miles, followed by stone after the forests were removed. When learning walling, my father and uncles were adamant. If you can lay a good dry wall, you can build a house. When I moved to Arizona, one thing I did was hire someone to haul in rubble, and am still in the process of building retainer walls. thank you for this film. It takes me back to working with Dad and the uncles, laughing, joking, and maybe cussing a little. niio

  • @marshallferron
    @marshallferron 6 місяців тому +2

    I fell in love with the Yorkshire landscape and these walls as a kid watching Last of the Summer Wine on PBS

  • @TheLandyfan
    @TheLandyfan 7 місяців тому +5

    What a perfect short, sweet, yet fantastic video. Thank you for that.

  • @carlos1rsa
    @carlos1rsa 5 місяців тому +2

    Just love the way he speaks. A true Englishman.

  • @drbichat5229
    @drbichat5229 7 місяців тому +4

    Very nice work. He has the most soothing British accent I have ever heard

  • @lorrainemclay3343
    @lorrainemclay3343 6 днів тому +2

    Brilliant work. I am so glad l had the opportunity to see such master craftsmen/ women working. Marvellous explanations. Thank you 👏👏🖐😃🇭🇲👏👏

  • @sme_sage1241
    @sme_sage1241 Рік тому +10

    Thank you for this very interesting video. The walls are a beautiful piece of art dotting the landscape. 👏👏👏

    • @primelightfilmsltd1803
      @primelightfilmsltd1803  Рік тому +3

      Glad you enjoyed it!

    • @abdirisakdirie3124
      @abdirisakdirie3124 10 місяців тому



      If some body or animal bush the Dry stone wall is it collapsed

    • @cho4d
      @cho4d 6 місяців тому +1

      @@abdirisakdirie3124 it is strong! dry stone construction can sometimes last longer than mortar construction because mortar can fail over time. these walls are naturally stable and heavy enough to last 100 years.

  • @thestoneforestchannel
    @thestoneforestchannel 2 місяці тому +2

    Excellent work.... I am a stonemason and I also rebuild very old stone walls. Greetings from a stonemason, from Barcelona.

  • @mandynewey7215
    @mandynewey7215 7 місяців тому +3

    Yorkshire is a beautiful place and the drystone walls and barns add to the beauty. Thank you for this video.

    • @ey954
      @ey954 7 місяців тому +1

      i don't get it when the waller said that some people says it look ugly.

  • @marymathis9299
    @marymathis9299 6 місяців тому +3

    It's so gratifying to see this kind of art continuing today!!! Here in the USA, if it's a few decades old, it's considered REALLY old, but there...ha!! Well, you get my meaning? There, across the pond, it's just life as it's always been. That's a comfort to me.
    Love seeing this brought out in such lovely detail.
    Love the craftsman that revealed it all for us!
    Thanks so much! ❤❤❤

    • @NutsinMay185
      @NutsinMay185 11 днів тому +1

      I visited friends in Olympia, Seattle and they pointed out an 'ancient' bridge almost 100 years old. Couldn't help replying' I've got older underpants than that'. Love my American friends, but I treasure our heritage that goes back centuries. As I write I can see Nottingham Castle (former home of the Sheriff) on the skyline about 3 miles away. All the best from England

  • @williamwilson2748
    @williamwilson2748 7 місяців тому +3

    The satisfaction you must get deep down inside when you look at that wall and say I built that with my own two hands must be a awesome feeling

  • @onlineidentity6826
    @onlineidentity6826 9 днів тому +1

    This brings back wonderful memories for me. As a kid in Derbyshire dry stone walls were everywhere also, and my great grandfather’s house had a dry stone wall around it ! Great times. Thank you.

  • @davidgraham2673
    @davidgraham2673 7 місяців тому +3

    Great video. Somehow i got pulled in.
    "Just a quick peek, i told myself"....
    Now i want more.

  • @paulreynolds9003
    @paulreynolds9003 7 місяців тому +7

    Fantastic mate, a pleasure to watch you all work .

  • @Chris-ut6eq
    @Chris-ut6eq 7 місяців тому +8

    I admire the craftsmanship!

  • @evennorthug2585
    @evennorthug2585 7 місяців тому +7

    Beautiful, and strongly presented.

  • @decmans
    @decmans 7 місяців тому +3

    A wonderful video to understand how this masterpiece of work has been done. Greetings from Germany. 🫡

  • @johnallen7807
    @johnallen7807 7 місяців тому +3

    Fantastic craftsmanship! My very first job was a trainee QS on the M62 and we had a gang of wallers, a real pleasure to watch.

  • @brettpaterson8042
    @brettpaterson8042 6 місяців тому +2

    So interesting, how great to have a skill and craft like that and apply it to a practical use. 👍

  • @Hope_Boat
    @Hope_Boat 7 місяців тому +51

    Salutation from a Greek island covered with dry-stone walls.

    • @kbkesq
      @kbkesq 7 місяців тому +1

      Are all the trees cut down there too? Amazed how bare the land is in Yorkshire and how they didn’t think to plant even a few trees.

    • @JH-lo9ut
      @JH-lo9ut 7 місяців тому +1

      Same on the island Gotland in the Baltic sea.
      Trees don't grow very tall and wood has always been in short supply.
      But the whole island is made from a sedimentary limestone that is easy to quarry and easily cut down to size.
      There are large areas with only a thin layer of topsoil, not fit for agriculture and where only sheep can graze.

  • @serendipity1046
    @serendipity1046 8 днів тому

    Nothing better in this crazy world than watching and listening to a true craftsman

  • @skipstewart9376
    @skipstewart9376 7 місяців тому +5

    What a great video, and what a great group of people to carry on a tradition!

  • @LCdrDerrick
    @LCdrDerrick 7 місяців тому +3

    Rural England is such a beauty, also because of these walls.

  • @carlospinheirotorres9499
    @carlospinheirotorres9499 7 місяців тому +2

    He handsomely captures the concept of 'flow'', the effortless proficiency of a skilled craftsman ❤

  • @steve-qe7tj
    @steve-qe7tj 6 місяців тому +2

    Very beautiful workmanship, pleasing to the eye as well as practical! All the stones in the fields can be used to border the same fields!!❤️😊

  • @michaeloxlarge4345
    @michaeloxlarge4345 5 місяців тому +1

    What a briliant tradie, any aprentice trained by this man is surley lucky

  • @matiasishere1487
    @matiasishere1487 7 місяців тому +1

    I dig the meditation aspect. Making badass things with our hands is reward like no other.

  • @gregperez919
    @gregperez919 6 місяців тому +1

    As an American traveling through Ireland, Scotland and the UK, I’ve always been fascinated by these walls found everywhere in the countryside. They do indeed have character. The precision involved is obvious. That why I was curious about this video. It makes sense one needs formal training to do this properly. Not just stack a pile of rocks. Great presentation. Thank you.

  • @louisegogel7973
    @louisegogel7973 5 місяців тому +1

    🟤⚪️⬛️🟠⬜️🟡🟫🔴🟧⚫️◻️🟨
    I love Yorkshire and I love building with stone, though I am very much a beginner. There is something so satisfying when you can fit stones snugly together in a pattern or a wall or whatever you are working on. Stones are so varied and are so beautiful to me.

  • @watergal82
    @watergal82 7 місяців тому +1

    Interesting and beautiful. I'm from New England, where we have the uglier, less cared for brother of these stone walls, the fieldstone wall. They were made from the meeting of two practicalities of life. The fields in New England grow stones more easily than any crop, so farmers needed to remove them to plow, and they needed to have markers between landowners and fences to keep sheep in. Building fences of stones made a useful way to dispose of them without carrying them far. These days the farmers have mostly moved to more fertile areas and the fields are woods. So if you go for a hike, you'll inevitably come across an old, falling down waist height wall.

  • @colintuffs568
    @colintuffs568 7 місяців тому +37

    Once came across a gentlemen repairing a wall in Derbyshire. He was well over fifty and i asked him how long he had been walling . His reply was that his eighty five year old father was teaching him !😊

  • @bernardhill1622
    @bernardhill1622 6 місяців тому +1

    Beautiful work Sir ❗🤔
    As a 78year retired Arch' Eng', i took the liberty of teaching myself " Dry Stone Masonry " as late as 1991 to enhance my skills..❗
    Hardwork but very stimulating for the Soul..❗🤔
    Barrelvault Construction is also one of my favourite construction principals and has been since graduation in 1969 even with recycling of modern high-tech waste material combined with Ferrocement Yacht Building Techniques ( having constructed 4 off in 1973-'76) as cleaning up of the Environment..❗
    Keep up the good work ❗👏🏻👏🏻👍🏻
    Shalowm ❗🙇‍♂️from " Out of Africa" ❗🍉🏴󠁧󠁢󠁳󠁣󠁴󠁿🇿🇦

  • @simonwalker8300
    @simonwalker8300 8 місяців тому +3

    What a great short doco, on something i have always admired. Bias perhaps, as my family come from there. Looking forward to learning that skill myself one day.

  • @christopherleblanc9599
    @christopherleblanc9599 7 місяців тому +4

    amazing work , true heritage

  • @arwedgroen
    @arwedgroen 8 місяців тому +3

    ❤ Aloha 🌺 from Germany. Thank you so much for sharing this "know how" amazing! In northern Germany we do have a lot of little stones of granite... collected from the farmers... I love to build walls in our paradisegarden. 😍🙏

  • @stickshaker101
    @stickshaker101 7 місяців тому +4

    A mile of that a year per man is astonishing!

    • @kevinsavage808
      @kevinsavage808 6 місяців тому +1

      I don't know about you, but a mile a year is just 365 days. How many hours and days did they work a month, that in its self is incredible.

    • @raypitts4880
      @raypitts4880 6 місяців тому

      @@kevinsavage808 wake up go there get on with it
      stay there all day if possible
      stop walking away from it

  • @lawriemorritt3492
    @lawriemorritt3492 21 день тому

    Who would have thought that such a dry subject could be made so interesting by the personality and narration skills of this craftsman

  • @donaldelfreth553
    @donaldelfreth553 3 місяці тому +1

    Interesting. I take note of what he calls a squeeze through. In my part of the US, the northeast, the the rural equivalent (for either a wooden rail fence or a dry laid stone wall) is called a stile, or in older times a grike.

  • @SuperBlinding
    @SuperBlinding 7 місяців тому +6

    There are great stone walls in Ireland ~ Built mostly with Limestone.

  • @artlein
    @artlein 4 місяці тому +1

    Thanks so much for this video! Very informative, wonderful narration, great to know that this custom has not faded away. ♥

  • @vicsaunders9710
    @vicsaunders9710 5 місяців тому +1

    Excellent video 👍👏

  • @sixtenjohansson4246
    @sixtenjohansson4246 6 місяців тому +1

    I learned so much from this video. 🥰 Thank you. 😊

  • @ronaldmansfield.6439
    @ronaldmansfield.6439 19 днів тому

    Still have that feeling to make stone walls it is in my bones. I am from Australia but my ancestors "Mansfields" were from that area. Beautiful work, good workers and a great video.

  • @robertcorradi8573
    @robertcorradi8573 5 місяців тому +2

    Fantastic...
    And a terrific commentary. That gentleman has an absolute gift . A natural orator.

  • @mystisith3984
    @mystisith3984 4 місяці тому

    I've always found stone a great material to build things with. Those walls are not ugly in my eyes, they give cadence to the land. What a beautiful country, keep taking care of it. Thanks for sharing.

  • @thomasgargano8813
    @thomasgargano8813 7 місяців тому +4

    Don’t you worry about some people calling the walls ugly, I think they looks great! Glad to see that groups like you and your good friends doing a great and wonderful jobs. Keep up the OLD WAYS and do teach this trade to the younger generation,so they can pass this knowledge on, peace and may GOD bless you all.👏👏👏👏👏👏👏👏🇺🇸🇺🇸🇺🇸🇺🇸🇺🇸🇺🇸🇺🇸🍺🍺🍺🍺🍺🍺🍺☮️☮️☮️☮️

  • @turinhorse4232
    @turinhorse4232 Рік тому +9

    incredible. Admire this as you would the egyptian pyramids. THIS IS YOUR HERITAGE AND CULTURE. protect it

  • @davidarenal3043
    @davidarenal3043 Рік тому +4

    Really interesting. In northern Spain, on a territory called "Valles Pasiegos", there is a similar landscape made of dry stone walls and stone cabins.

  • @karlhungus888
    @karlhungus888 7 місяців тому +1

    beautiful video. salute to these craftsmen

  • @Garage_Caster
    @Garage_Caster 6 місяців тому +1

    What a fantastic passion! Great Video

  • @juliecumming9243
    @juliecumming9243 5 місяців тому

    Absolutely marvellous. I was thinking of building a small drystone wall in my garden ❤

  • @AlexDiesTrying
    @AlexDiesTrying 7 місяців тому

    DRystone or mortar... the natural look simply feels grounded. It's utterly beautiful. Not as artificial, cold and lifeless as concrete. Most likeable.
    Also, David does a marvellous job explaining things.

  • @jonasgeez2140
    @jonasgeez2140 7 місяців тому +1

    I love how he said it seems to grow from the landscape rather than dominate it

  • @TS-1267
    @TS-1267 8 днів тому

    .... "" 🎉 RESPECT TO THE YORKSHIRE WALLER'S 🏆 THANK YOU ""... Greetings From Bradford West Yorkshire 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁥󠁮󠁧󠁿✌️

  • @johnduffy6546
    @johnduffy6546 7 місяців тому

    WOW! How could anyone possibly think these are ugly? They are MAGNIFICENT! The skill, determination and just plain hard work involved makes them a treasured art form! I can easily see where this would be a meditative craft

    • @canislatrans8285
      @canislatrans8285 7 місяців тому

      Mid 19th century version of cookie cutter subdivision houses sprawl lol.

  • @professornuke7562
    @professornuke7562 7 місяців тому +15

    I am a dry stone waller, all day I dry stone wall
    Of all appalling callings, dry stone walling's worst of all.
    ~Pam Ayers

  • @curtismarean6963
    @curtismarean6963 7 місяців тому

    It's good to see this ancient craft still alive.

  • @jamesellsworth9673
    @jamesellsworth9673 6 місяців тому

    I grew up with much less crafted drystone walls throughout our farmland. The skills shown here are outstanding!

  • @MrPhotodoc
    @MrPhotodoc 7 місяців тому +10

    One man + one year = one mile. Got it.

  • @rogerdevero8726
    @rogerdevero8726 7 місяців тому +1

    Great Video. Awesome Stone Artwork. God Bless You All - John 3:16

  • @madwhitehare3635
    @madwhitehare3635 6 місяців тому

    What a blessing to do what you love doing as a lifelong career....
    Hedgelaying, too....a work of art just to look at....

  • @kristine8338
    @kristine8338 7 місяців тому +1

    🤩 rijke informatie en niet vanzelfsprekend landschap. Een sociale handtekening. Merci 🌷

  • @YouBazinga
    @YouBazinga 6 місяців тому

    An amazing craft and a very eloquent chap explaining the construction.

  • @judahbrutus
    @judahbrutus 5 місяців тому

    Love that accent and way of speaking. Very interesting video as well

  • @cathmcfarlane-noble2087
    @cathmcfarlane-noble2087 6 місяців тому

    Absolute respect for those working this craft.

  • @Ian20232
    @Ian20232 7 місяців тому

    Could listen to this chap all day long. Very knowledgeable and clearly spoken. Same as I could (and still do on UA-cam) listen to Fred Dibnah.