Putting things right

[Dean Lofthouse]

& how much did the logs creep up by

 

That comes into effect next season

[Stephen Blair]

That comes into effect next season

 

what an old git, we had an old guy today park beside a tree we were pollarding, it was a no parking zone, my lad asked him nicely if he could move bacause we wouldnt like to hit his car with a branch, his reply was hit my car and i will hit you, put up the window and blasted the horn non stop for 2 mins till his poor old wife came out a house, these type of folk were young idiots, middle age idiots and now old idiots.

 

oh nice wall mate,

[Jason James Gairn]

Andy Goldsworthy. google his name and go to google images oh and add sheep folds. The man has taken drystone walling to the next level. His books are awesome and the one called `wood' is very cool indeed.

check it out.

[Stephen Blair]

Andy Goldsworthy. google his name and go to google images oh and add sheep folds. The man has taken drystone walling to the next level. His books are awesome and the one called `wood' is very cool indeed.

check it out.

 

cool, guess what dean will be doing tomorrow.

[scotspine1]

I reversed through his gate straight back into a little ornamental drystone wall under the drift. It shift all the top stones 6" along and misaligned a few course of stone, from a little shunt

 

I blame the 130:001_tongue: if you'd owned a Transit, Cabstar or a Jap pick-up you probably wouldn't have ventured out into the blizzards.

 

I told him no-one builds to my standards and I have higher standards than him.

 

Probably not the best thing to say Dean, especially when you've just trashed his wall.

 

 

 

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Edited March 6, 2009 by scotspine1

[Mesterh]

Wheres the pic of the finished job then?

 

 

Looks like your doing a nice job of rebuilding it and your a better man than me because if someone started whining about a wall that size and talking about insurance after driving through blizzards of snow I think I would have told him to F*** right off and then preceded to demolished the thing good and proper.

[Joe]

theres just no pleasing some people.

[Dean Lofthouse]

he said no because no-one builds stuff to his standards as he is an ex engineer (your worst nightmare) I told him no-one builds to my standards either and I have higher standards than him. I am a drystone waller, so he can like it or lump it, my offers on the table.

 

 

I very nearly went ballistic with him but I understood his stand point as in the above paragraph.

 

In the last 15 years I have employed all manner of trades to do jobs for me. I dont know whether this is nationwide or just me being particularly picky, but I haven't found one tradesman that does a good job.

 

Infact one builder I set on doing a £25K rebuild of two gable walls was a builder from hell, absolute cowboy. I ended up digging holes in the bottom of the gables to remove tons of crap he had shovelled down the cavity to save on skips.

 

I had a 90ft drystone wall down my drive fall over in gales, the insurance sent out a "Drystone waller" he started the job and was using the "throughs" as "Jumpers" and filling the middle in with soil . When I confronted him he asked me how dare I critisise his walling, he teaches in college.

 

I sacked three different wallers that the insurance company sent out, until eventually, after the insurance company just thought I was picky, they let me choose the waller. After he had finished they could see the difference and accepted I wasn't being funny and have now set this lad on as their waller.

 

I have honestly not come across one tradesman with pride in his work, which is one of the reasons I go all out to ensure my customers are satisfied with the work I have done and being from an engineering background is probably the worst thing ever because you work to finer tolerances.

[tommer9]

That all sounds like the bloke was a tosser. Still, from the little bit visible in your photo, it looks like he is getting a good job. I have built stonewalls in cornwall for a few years, and down here the wall are mud filled, with mud in the joints, designed to become grown in and then called cornish hedges. My mate and i built dry stone walls though, filled only with stone. always wanted to meet a "proper" drystone waller from up north. Honest opinions please- what do you reckon?

 

 

[Dean Lofthouse]

They are absolutely stunning Tommer, I wouldn't hesitate to employ you with those standards.

 

Very nice stuff.

 

Are the mud filled walls mainly used for retaining walls?