Rebuilding a drystone wall, badly

I rebuilt eight feet of drystone wall under supervision and it took a day and a half. Callum Reid, who does this properly, was extremely kind about it.

Every stone has one place it wants to go and about forty where it will sit for a year and then fall out.
Callum Reid

In this episode

1. 01:30 My eight feet, assessed honestly.
2. 11:00 Why you never break a stone if you can turn it.
3. 20:40 Walls that have stood two hundred years and walls that stood two.
4. 31:15 On being paid by the metre for something that lasts a century.
5. 38:00 Forty more years.

Mentioned

• The Dry Stone Walling Association craftsman scheme
• Stone Walls by Andrew Loudon
• My own eight feet, still standing at time of writing

Recorded on a hillside above Cheddar, out of breath.