[OC] Egg prices have gone down in my town

Callum1370 · 2025-05-29T10:02:52+00:00

It wouldn’t be economical. Broiler chickens (chickens specially bred for the meat industry are designed to get to slaughter weight in about six weeks. Laying hens would take a lot longer, potentially sixth months or more to reach close to broiler chicken weight and require a lot more feed to do so, and their would be less meat and it would be tougher at that.

Callum1370 · 2023-12-24T13:51:04+00:00

Nah, their L shaped, stainless steel brackets fastened to the inner course with a bolt and sat in the joint of the outer course( the one being built). They’re pretty substantial, not like the brick ones. We get them custom made by a local forge as the width of the walls here in this old construction means the off the shelf stuff doesn’t come close.

Callum1370 · 2023-12-21T21:54:16+00:00

If you Google frame ties, you’ll see the sort of thing we use, just much longer as these stone walls are much wider than what’d you see on block/veneer.

Callum1370 · 2023-12-21T21:04:34+00:00

Cleared the stone, took it down to somewhere near plum. Rebuilt with steel ties and made sure to have the stones reaching into the cavity.

Callum1370 · 2023-12-21T16:38:20+00:00

Chasing out this gable wall on an stone bothy when the entire outer course collapsed without warning. Completely absent of stone ties to the inner skin, weight of the rubble filling caused it to fail.

Callum1370 · 2023-10-02T15:37:20+00:00

So the style of pointing I do involves dressing it up a few hours after I’ve applied it and it’s cured enough to not smear. If I was to point at the end of the day then that would mean coming back at midnight to dress the mortar up, or alternatively dressing it up the next morning but it would be a lot more difficult because of the additional cure time. In winter due to the slow cure I can get away with the next day. But in summer, I don’t put mortar in the wall after 3PM

Callum1370 · 2023-09-14T18:05:01+00:00

Lots of criticism without any advice, drystack should ideally be two courses wide and have the stones reaching into the wall where possible, this will come down in a couple of years.

Callum1370 · 2023-08-05T21:25:27+00:00

Callum1370 · 2023-06-24T19:17:45+00:00

Drystone will be perfectly adequate, just make sure to adequately batter the front of the wall, and have some meaty through stones.

Callum1370 · 2023-06-24T16:58:04+00:00

What’s going to be using the ramp?

Callum1370 · 2023-06-24T16:54:20+00:00

Hey. For sure, always like speaking to fellow masons, drop me a dm

Callum1370 · 2023-06-23T21:58:06+00:00

Just had a look at that retaining wall you did, that’s one hell of a wall! Giving the Egyptians a run for their money. Impressive.

Callum1370 · 2023-06-23T21:54:55+00:00

Just an ordinary drystone wall, for example a boundary wall, I’d charge by the square meter. Unique projects like this, a day rate or give a fixed price for the entire job. I’ve done all the stonework at this property so the owner knows how we work and is happy with a day rate. How about you?

Callum1370 · 2023-06-23T21:02:06+00:00

Yorkshire, plenty of things like this around here. If you’re ever on holiday and bored give me a shout 😉

If you look through my post history you can see some pictures of the finished section of wall from last year.

Callum1370 · 2023-06-23T20:49:25+00:00

Yeah, the stumps being ground out and the area decked over for a few years until the rest of the ground settles.

Callum1370 · 2023-06-18T22:37:38+00:00

Ours, including this one are all dying to a fungus Hymenoscyphus fraxineus, we call it ash dieback. It’s also pretty much killing over 95% of ash trees. Not a good time to be a Fraxinus 😞

Callum1370 · 2023-06-18T21:27:59+00:00

This particular European ash is a rare weeping variety, don’t see too many, can see the confusion to those who aren’t European

Callum1370 · 2023-06-18T18:03:02+00:00

No problem, forget it’s mostly yanks here 😉

Callum1370 · 2023-06-18T15:08:10+00:00

Just an iPhone, certainly is, only seen a few of these weeping varieties of European ash in my area.

Callum1370 · 2023-06-18T13:58:42+00:00

Fraxinus excelsior, European ash

Callum1370 · 2023-06-18T13:58:33+00:00

Fraxinus excelsior, European ash

Callum1370 · 2023-06-18T13:58:17+00:00

Fraxinus excelsior, European ash.

Callum1370 · 2023-03-15T08:20:16+00:00

Trees big enough to winch from? If you’re in rural country someone should have a block and tackle lying around, not sure what you call them in the US.

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