“OK so it’s really simple: you just want to take off the copings and the covers and lay them off to one side. Then break it down with the doubles – which will be your builders – in one line and your hartings in another about a foot from the base. Take off the through stones for the band and set them off to the other side. When you’ve got down to the founding stones you want to start building it up again with the doubles remembering to always pin it in from the back and if it doesn’t quite fit just give it a wee dunt with the hammer …”
Translation tomorrow.
July 2, 2009 at 10:02 pm |
I would imagine that “copings and covers” are the top layer of vertically and horizontally stacked stones. “Doubles” must be the larger stones that make up the two outer courses of the wall and the “hartings” the smaller infill, “through stones”, the lateral ties between the two rows of “doubles”. Close?
Do you “pin” the “doubles” with “heartings” to ensue they run plumb vertical?
July 2, 2009 at 10:04 pm |
BTW…what happened to the dyke in your photo? Looks like a sheep was blown sideways through it…
July 3, 2009 at 7:47 am |
Mr Uhdd has been on such a course, at the National Stone Centre in Wirksworth, he can do horsehair and lime plastering too!
July 3, 2009 at 8:24 am |
RB – more or less – except you don’t make them vertical, you have to make sure there’s a batter on it… (I may not have got the words exactly right, this was all filtered through a thick scottish accent). Oh and the dyke in the picture has been mortared at the top, hence the gravity-defying hole. The walls round here aren’t all that well maintained
UHDD – I hope he enjoyed it as much as I did.
July 3, 2009 at 2:59 pm |
You know – that hole – if you turn it upsidedown and change the shape a bit – is an exact outline of Crete, or Cyprus, or maybe even Malta with a bit more engineering. Gawd it’s hot.
July 14, 2009 at 5:07 pm |
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