I call myself a fair-weather waller.
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I call myself a fair-weather waller. I don’t do drystone work through the worst of winter. If you have ever jammed numb fingers between cold stones, started a morning by sledgehammering apart a frozen stone pile, or done a pee outside, bum exposed to biting winter air, you will understand why.
Drystone season is almost upon us. This year we have a run of really interesting jobs and I have a new ambition, learning to drive a digger.
Seems like a good metaphor for life, too, I guess. Something about preparing for bad times during the good times?
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I call myself a fair-weather waller. I don’t do drystone work through the worst of winter. If you have ever jammed numb fingers between cold stones, started a morning by sledgehammering apart a frozen stone pile, or done a pee outside, bum exposed to biting winter air, you will understand why.
Drystone season is almost upon us. This year we have a run of really interesting jobs and I have a new ambition, learning to drive a digger.
@kristiedegaris I lived in Wensleydale and my neighbour had a large garden with a long ry stone wall one side. The ram that did it took many weeks (guaranteed by them for 100 years) but the debated how many tonnes of stones (am I right a tonne per metre) and how long it took to build all the walls we could see across the dale, just a tiny proportion of the Dale’s walls
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I call myself a fair-weather waller. I don’t do drystone work through the worst of winter. If you have ever jammed numb fingers between cold stones, started a morning by sledgehammering apart a frozen stone pile, or done a pee outside, bum exposed to biting winter air, you will understand why.
Drystone season is almost upon us. This year we have a run of really interesting jobs and I have a new ambition, learning to drive a digger.
@kristiedegaris I'm curious how logistics work for drystone wall building. Do you arrange the material needed? or is it the client who has an abundance of it
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I call myself a fair-weather waller. I don’t do drystone work through the worst of winter. If you have ever jammed numb fingers between cold stones, started a morning by sledgehammering apart a frozen stone pile, or done a pee outside, bum exposed to biting winter air, you will understand why.
Drystone season is almost upon us. This year we have a run of really interesting jobs and I have a new ambition, learning to drive a digger.
@kristiedegaris i swear i will upvote every single post about building stone walls I see here
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I call myself a fair-weather waller. I don’t do drystone work through the worst of winter. If you have ever jammed numb fingers between cold stones, started a morning by sledgehammering apart a frozen stone pile, or done a pee outside, bum exposed to biting winter air, you will understand why.
Drystone season is almost upon us. This year we have a run of really interesting jobs and I have a new ambition, learning to drive a digger.
@kristiedegaris I worked several decades in construction so I've some idea what you're saying. Brickies labourers breaking the ice on the water butt so they can mix when the temperature rises enough, working with timber that's been outside and freezing overnight, fixing roof timbers in the icy breeze all day.
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I call myself a fair-weather waller. I don’t do drystone work through the worst of winter. If you have ever jammed numb fingers between cold stones, started a morning by sledgehammering apart a frozen stone pile, or done a pee outside, bum exposed to biting winter air, you will understand why.
Drystone season is almost upon us. This year we have a run of really interesting jobs and I have a new ambition, learning to drive a digger.
@kristiedegaris Lovely job
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@kristiedegaris I'm curious how logistics work for drystone wall building. Do you arrange the material needed? or is it the client who has an abundance of it
@RakowskiBartosz It works all sorts of ways. Firstly we try to use local stone where possible, that could be reclaimed stone, field stone or local quarries depending on what client wants/needs. Sometimes clients have stone but almost always they underestimate just how much they are going to need as well as the type of stone they need for different parts of the wall.
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I call myself a fair-weather waller. I don’t do drystone work through the worst of winter. If you have ever jammed numb fingers between cold stones, started a morning by sledgehammering apart a frozen stone pile, or done a pee outside, bum exposed to biting winter air, you will understand why.
Drystone season is almost upon us. This year we have a run of really interesting jobs and I have a new ambition, learning to drive a digger.
This bench is fantastic!
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@kristiedegaris +1 on the digger. it's super useful and fun and you get to feel a bit like godzilla
especially using one of the larger ones to demolish an old house..
gets a bit dry and repetitive for normal things.. like a long drive you sometimes wish the thing had cruise control or autopilot or something. These are more fun and less tedious for bulk digging, in a straight line..
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@kristiedegaris +1 on the digger. it's super useful and fun and you get to feel a bit like godzilla
these 2 things are conceptually quite similar, even while you are doing them..
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@nflux I think I'd like that a lot
these things, in all their various forms and configurations, are little gems.. easy on fuel, light on maintenance, and quite strong. Uses maybe 6-8L of diesel running all day long.. 8-10 hours. Agile in tight tight spaces, surefooted, strong pullers, low gearing, 4wd.
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these things, in all their various forms and configurations, are little gems.. easy on fuel, light on maintenance, and quite strong. Uses maybe 6-8L of diesel running all day long.. 8-10 hours. Agile in tight tight spaces, surefooted, strong pullers, low gearing, 4wd.
these are ok, too, provided you don't have too much earth moving to do. if you are moving a lot of dirt or trying to grade & fine tune the grade of the landscape then something with a drag bucket behind it is faster and gives you fine control over slope and grade. The caveat is they need space to operate.
These bobcats are for very tight spaces, which is why you see them in cities but out in the country, less so. they are tippy, hard riding, and a bit unpleasant to use all day. They have an odd center of gravity. Visibility from the driver's seat is mediocre. In actual use, they perform a hybrid function, usually a cross between a fork lift and a shovel, in that configuration, but don't specifically excel at either task.
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these are ok, too, provided you don't have too much earth moving to do. if you are moving a lot of dirt or trying to grade & fine tune the grade of the landscape then something with a drag bucket behind it is faster and gives you fine control over slope and grade. The caveat is they need space to operate.
These bobcats are for very tight spaces, which is why you see them in cities but out in the country, less so. they are tippy, hard riding, and a bit unpleasant to use all day. They have an odd center of gravity. Visibility from the driver's seat is mediocre. In actual use, they perform a hybrid function, usually a cross between a fork lift and a shovel, in that configuration, but don't specifically excel at either task.
@FelisCatusDomesticus @kristiedegaris 14/10 would drive any and all of those
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@FelisCatusDomesticus @kristiedegaris 14/10 would drive any and all of those
14/10?
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@FelisCatusDomesticus @kristiedegaris its a thing the kids say when something is very good. better than 10/10
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