Although much of the day today was taken up with briefing a kitchen designer (I have high hopes!!), I did manage to spend a couple of hours on the dry stone wall along Hagg Wood today. The corner of the wall is not in the best of shapes. While I have managed to get away with just repairing the top 2-3 courses, this part of the wall needs to be rebuilt. While some of the wall has a bit of a “wiggle”, this part of the wall is just lost to the under growth.
I have tried to keep the amount of rebuilding to a minimum and concentrate more on “repairing”. But with the corner, I have no choice. Yesterday, I spent some time digging out this part of the wall. Today will be spent rebuilding a 4m section. This is in comparison to spending a day repairing a wall when I can do 10-15m in a day.
The yellow string shows where the wall should be. Mmm…there is a bit of work to do here.
There is little option but to dissamble the corner of the wall and re-building. I tried to keep the amount of rebuilding to a minimum, but it had to be done.
At least it is now straight. It is amazing how much stone goes into the wall when it is rebuilt.
I have to admit that I did take the coping stones off and had a second go as the first attempt had a bit of a “wave” in it. This is not perfect, but better.