Dry Stone Walling: 2 Day Fundamentals
Dry Stone Walling: 2 Day Fundamentals
Learn how to build a dry stone wall in this two-day dry stone walling course. Help us restore the dry stone walls around the farm and learn this ancient and beautiful art with our experienced teacher and waller.
On this dry stone walling course you will:
- Learn about the principles of dry stone walling.
- Find out how the walls are built, from start to finish.
- Learn about stripping out the wall and preparing foundations, building and packing, placing of through bands, copestones and finishing.
- Have lots of hands-on experience to build and pack a section of wall.
To make sure you get plenty of hands-on experience we have strictly limited the number of spaces on this course.
What you'll learn
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Day One - Introduction to Dry Stone Walling
Learn about the principles and techniques of good dry stone walling before starting the hands-on work of stripping and preparing the wall
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Day One - Building the Wall
Once the foundations have been laid you'll start building and packing the wall
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Day Two - Throughbands and Packing
You'll learn the hows and whys of placing through bands and continue building and packing the wall
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Day Two - Finishing Off
Learn about copestones and finishing, putting the final touches to your piece of wall.
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Q&A
The course will finish with tea and cake and the opportunity to ask any further questions.
Testimonials..
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Fantastic weekend, friendly and helpful hosts and very interesting and informative instructor. Looking forward to coming back.
Brian -
Wonderful guidance on building a wall.
Sue -
Excellent weekend with good tuition in a small and very friendly group.
Andy
The Essentials
Dry Stone Walling: Two Day Fundamentals runs from 10am until 4pm on Saturday and Sunday and includes a delicious farm lunch on both days.
Most of the weekend will be spent outside building the wall. Please check the weather for NP25 and dress appropriately, including:
– Waterproof and steel toe capped boots
– Heavy weight gardening gloves to protect your hands
– Weather-proof clothes which you don’t mind getting wet or dirty
Dry Stone Walling is physically demanding and not suitable if you are pregnant or have back problems.
Making a weekend of it? Why not stay on the farm or take a look at accommodation nearby.
Your instructor for the day..
Charles is an experienced Dry Stone Waller and has built many miles of dry stone walls for the National Trust.…