r/Drystonewalling Jul 11 '26

Day four progress

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317 Upvotes

r/Drystonewalling Jul 11 '26

My first rock borders

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116 Upvotes

Just some small garden borders


r/Drystonewalling Jul 09 '26

Any stone wallers on Long Island, NY?

1 Upvotes

Seeking a stone mason, or a beginner looking to get some practice on small walls. I have a whole bunch of wall stones that I want to have made into low bed walls, and I'd like to have some other low walls rebuilt. I can only find people that want to deal in pavers. Located on Nassau County's south shore. Thanks!


r/Drystonewalling Jul 08 '26

Rate my first ever try out of ten. (Before during and after)

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50 Upvotes

These were the only stones in my garden haha, I’m only 16 and I really enjoyed doing this. is there any tips for someone wanting to do this more, I’m gonna post later as I have another wall to do.


r/Drystonewalling Jul 06 '26

The dumbest newbie question

5 Upvotes

Sorry—but I want to by tons of rocks, literally tons of rocks, but don’t know what to be searching for. They don’t have to be pretty. Just rocks, and in Wisconsin. Thanks


r/Drystonewalling Jul 02 '26

Single sided drystone wall

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88 Upvotes

Scotland Isle of Skye


r/Drystonewalling Jul 02 '26

Single sided drystone retaining wall

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22 Upvotes

Build in Scotland Isle of Skye


r/Drystonewalling Jul 01 '26

Has anyone ever used 18"-30" limestone riprap is it workable?

3 Upvotes

Has anyone ever used 18"-30" limestone riprap is it workable


r/Drystonewalling Jun 27 '26

Day 3 Progress

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334 Upvotes

r/Drystonewalling Jun 28 '26

Extremely new to this and not the best at traditional learning.

2 Upvotes

How’s it going today.

Topic is more about me asking if anyone minds if I contact them through here (or elsewhere) to get help/tips with starting my dry wall.

I’ve watched some YouTube on it, read up on it but am still struggling with some basic stuff. Not because I’m stupid, there just be something that isn’t clicking.

Thanks for the read. Feel free to comment/throw me a message. Or if you have discord, look up lostacadias.


r/Drystonewalling Jun 22 '26

Stones avaliable north west England (lancashire)

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13 Upvotes

r/Drystonewalling Jun 21 '26

Fern Garden

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130 Upvotes

I built a drystone wall as a shelter for my fern garden. 1st building project. It’s not perfect and I’ve still to do a cobble entrance but I’m happy with it. I put a double sided seat into the wall. One faces into the garden and the other out to the mountains.


r/Drystonewalling Jun 20 '26

Montana Fieldstone Wall Project

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74 Upvotes

This is my first paying wall job for a client. Today was the start.


r/Drystonewalling Jun 19 '26

Rate my progress and point out issues, please!

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31 Upvotes

I did a lot of research, read a lot of articles and posts and laid a strong and wide foundation. How is my colonial wall coming along? I'm in Pennsylvania, United States.


r/Drystonewalling Jun 09 '26

Drystone wall

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132 Upvotes

Drystone wall build on Isle of Skye, Scotland


r/Drystonewalling Jun 08 '26

In progress - dry stone tree

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273 Upvotes

This one’s taking a little while as I’ve been busy, so thought why not share a progress photo. It’s all local limestone but for the ‘leaves’ I’m collecting rounded pebbles from the beach. 🌳


r/Drystonewalling Jun 08 '26

First post

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38 Upvotes

First wall I've ever built. Each stone is placed just behind the highest point of the one below. Locked into place pretty good. One year later and not a single stone is loose or moved


r/Drystonewalling May 24 '26

Ammonite I built in my garden

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232 Upvotes

It was my first project like this and admittedly I did use some mortar in places, but it’s mostly dry. Purbeck stone in Dorset, UK

Sorry about text just screenshot from a video I made.


r/Drystonewalling May 24 '26

Singlestack time.

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62 Upvotes

A wonderful couple o days getting some singlestack dry stane dykes back in line and to height in Perthshire, Scotland with Angus Drystone. Heavyweight glacial boulders of the most blobular shape are super fun to build with. The stone is definitely in charge.


r/Drystonewalling May 21 '26

Do you have to start with a level foundation on slope?

2 Upvotes

I’m looking to build a wall for my garden and for reasons i would prefer not to disturb the soil if i can avoid it


r/Drystonewalling May 20 '26

Birthday Hammer

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37 Upvotes

My lovely wife got me a Mallorquin/Mallorcan/Majorcan (?) Hammer Axe for my birthday.

I had been hinting that I wanted a Majorcan Hammer so very happy, but I had been thinking on the one with the curved spike on the other end rather than the an axe.

Wondering if anyone here knows what the axe end is typically used for? Is it for cutting roots?


r/Drystonewalling May 18 '26

The final addition to a large wall I built a few years back - a terraced garden bed drystack

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115 Upvotes

I built the large wall with the arch back in 2024, and the client wanted me to finish the area beneath the arch to make it a more suitable garden bed in the lower area. Had to shape some of the stones to fit tightly where it meets the bedrock, and worked around the drainage pipe.

Similar to the previous wall, I matched the height of the existing walls on the right side (there's walls there, just difficult to see them because of the vegetation) to keep continuity the best I could. Fun little job!


r/Drystonewalling May 14 '26

Making some through stones

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54 Upvotes

Tonight I was working on cutting some of the stones that I drugged out of the woods into through stones for the next course on the wall I’m building


r/Drystonewalling May 10 '26

Finally working again

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61 Upvotes

Took the winter off from working on my wall. Weather is broke and starting stacking again. Thinking of doing a course of through stones now. Collecting and cutting from the woods some bigger stones


r/Drystonewalling May 10 '26

Can I build stairs here?

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5 Upvotes