WHAT I DO

I will lay your Hedge, Build or repair your Dry stone walling or plant new hedges.

Hedgelaying, Planting, Drystone Walling, Garden features, House stonework, hedgelaying, teaching, illustrated talks, Training in Hedgelaying, Stonework, Drystone Walling

I live and work in the North York Moors area



I'm a qualified hedgelayer and have laid hedges in Ireland, Holland and in the UK. I'm also a drystone waller and have built houses (and walls), garden features, gate entrances in Ireland, Australia and in England.

I've been told I'm a bit of walling and hedgelaying nerd. But I don't mind it because it's normal. Doesn't everyone stop and take pictures of these when they are on holiday?

Some of the site contains my work along with pictures of hedges, walls and walling features from places I've visited. It should be pretty obvious which is my work.

Tuesday, March 9, 2021

Covid has reduced the amount of traffic so it gave me the chance to rebuild  this wall.


 

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I'd already removed the tops, although they were mostly triangular I was going to have to create some other tops from suitable stone.


(Above)  This is part way through the re-build.  Notice that there are few  gaps between stones which reducesthe amount of rubble fill you need.  (Below)  Over many years the fill erodes, becomes smaller and eventually falls down the inside of the wall leaving large 'cavities' or gaps into which the building stone gradually collapses into - as you can see in the photograph below.  Which I why this wall has partially collapsed.




😀 And here's the finished job (below)







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