Comments on: Technical Terms

By: And now with Pictures « Town Mouse

And now with Pictures « Town Mouse — Tue, 14 Jul 2009 17:07:18 +0000

[...] I promised you an explanation, so here’s what we did: First demolish your wall. Note that on my side of the wall, the [...]

By: itsagoatslife

itsagoatslife — Fri, 03 Jul 2009 14:59:31 +0000

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.

By: disgruntled

disgruntled — Fri, 03 Jul 2009 08:24:48 +0000

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.

By: uphilldowndale

uphilldowndale — Fri, 03 Jul 2009 07:47:13 +0000

Mr Uhdd has been on such a course, at the National Stone Centre in Wirksworth, he can do horsehair and lime plastering too!

By: Flaneur Brian

Flaneur Brian — Thu, 02 Jul 2009 22:04:31 +0000

BTW…what happened to the dyke in your photo? Looks like a sheep was blown sideways through it…

By: Flaneur Brian

Flaneur Brian — Thu, 02 Jul 2009 22:02:36 +0000

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?