The mason supplying my new stone wants to buy the scutched ashlar block that makes up most of the bothy. That means a cheaper price on the new stone but it also means we have to take down and stack by hand so no machines....who needs to go to the gym?
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Will he take the crappy brick too?
you are fooling no one Thud, you have a fondness for old materials and would have taken it down stone by stone, lovingly saving each one, even if it was just going to stay in a heap somewhere...
Ha! guilty as charged, I was planning to use much of it for a wood drying shed with a workshop in a little wooods I'm clearing.The tudor arched windows and doorways will be reused in the new building.
wood dryng shed ? hmmm...time for you to try the very old technique of wattle and daub... a timber main frame....you probably have small diameter growth for the wattle panels, plenty of clay in the ground for the daub and it's a technique the kids can join in with... great , if a bit messy, fun to be had by all.
if you have a grumpy old farmer nearby that you can scrounge some hay from to mix in with the clay so much the better...
H, plenty of small diameter hazel available. I intended on building stone stub wall maybe a yard high and then wood on top, trying w and d sounds interesting.
Had to Google "bothy" but good stone building material is hard to pass-up!
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