John Vivian

Building Stone Walls

Storey's Country Wisdom Bulletin A-217

• Broschiertes Buch

Produktbeschreibung

Instructions on how to go out and build a really permanent monument to yourself are the next best things to having a real old-time expert working alongside.

Produktdetails

• Verlag: Workman Publishing
• Seitenzahl: 112
• Erscheinungstermin: 3. Januar 1976
• Englisch
• Abmessung: 230mm x 154mm x 9mm
• Gewicht: 234g
• ISBN-13: 9780882660745
• ISBN-10: 0882660748
• Artikelnr.: 21392270

Autorenporträt

John Vivian is a veteran practitioner of many country crafts. He is the author of Building Stone Walls and The Manual of Practical Homesteading. He lives in Vermont.

Inhaltsangabe

Introduction
Kinds of Stone
Equipment
Laying Out the Wall
Above-Ground Building
Ends & Corners
Using Not-So-Good Stone
Drainage
Special Walls
Wall Furniture
Quarrying
Mortar
Maintenance
Some Other Uses of Stone
The Story of a Wall