The granite boundary wall on both sides of our property is not in very good condition, after years of neglect. We have already done a few repairs to the right hand side, but there is a massive hole in the wall on the left hand side (caused by our trees growing too close to the wall). We had said trees cut down last year, but we've been putting off the dyke rebuild as we weren't sure we had the necessary competencies. However, this is the moment! Hubby demolished the offending section last week, and we have been working on the rebuild for the past 5 days. It's jolly hard work, and some of the stones we can't lift ourselves. Here, our young and fit son is lifting the biggest of the stones, ready to place it on the prepared and cemented section of the wall. Small steps. It's raining this morning, so that has stopped play. Maybe we'll get a few more stones laid this afternoon though.
The perfect time to rebuild when you have a very captive workforce! Those stones look very heavy...a sort of strongest man dry stone walling task! I expect there are some scraped knuckles!
@tunia Yes and we need him to stay a bit longer as he will definitely be needed to lift some of the massive coping stones back onto the top of the wall!
@quietpurplehaze I do a lot of gentle labouring work ... passing cement, lifting reasonable sized stones, choosing the right shape of stone ... nothing too strenuous. Can't say the same for hubby though!
You won't forget which year you did that work!
Very nice in b&w!
of the work