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West Of Scotland Dry Stone Walling Association

2 weeks ago

Day 2 of our weekend Introduction to Drystone Walling Training Course and the weather was not as fair as it was yesterday, however, our hard core of trainees cared not a jot. 'Bring on the masseeeeeve throughs and mighty copes ', they were heard to cry in unison after the morning briefing 😊Yeah, some showers throughout the day, however, we had finished and cleared off from the site afore the later deluge arrived, phew 😅 Yup, the 18 peeps who attended, some having travelled a fair distance, Aberdeenshire, Arran, Glasgow and Edinburgh ,to enjoy playing with the Auchenfoyle whinstone, should be very proud of themselves for the wall that they transformed 💪💪💪👏👏👏👏👏👏👏👏👏👏👏👏👏👏
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West Of Scotland Dry Stone Walling Association

2 weeks ago

Today was our second ,two day Introduction to Drystone Walling Training Course of our 2026 at Auchenfoyle, near Kilmacolm, and the weather was set fair, hurrahhhhhhh 😁A group of 18 were in attendance today, champing at the bit to get stuck in to the large unforgiving whinstone .After an introduction into what the principles were of the 'craft', we then began the strip out.We had two sections of wall to work on today, one being the access gap used on the March 'course build , the other work site was the section that was the intended to be the March site,however, due to flooding ,it was deemed insafe to work on.Today we had no such safety concerns, the ground was so dry that participants were able to park their vehicles in the we were working in, a first for our training courses.Anyhoo,after about two hours the strip outs were almost complete, so it was an ideal time for a short break.A grand day's work all the part being very receptive to instructions given during the build.Day 1 concluded with more or less attaining throughstone height, so very well done all. They most certainly won't take much rocking tonight…😴
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West Of Scotland Dry Stone Walling Association

4 weeks ago

Well, enjoyable and satisfying builds must come to an end at some point, and today we said goodbye to the Auchengillan Outdoor Centre A couple of hours work today found us finishing the memorial cairn to mark 100 years of the centre's existence ,having been opened by the founder of the Scout's movement Robert Baden-Powell in 1926.There's lots happening at Auchengillan throughout the year to celebrate it's centenary and we'd like to think that we played a small part in it's celebrations, aye, here's to the next hundred years.😊Don't worry yourselves regarding the protruding centre pole, it will be cut down once the 'centre decides what type of stone they wish cut to form the cap stone, an inscribed plate will also be added to the cobble blocks that feature on the build. The End 😁
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West Of Scotland Dry Stone Walling Association

4 weeks ago

Our community project this weekend was at Auchengillan Outdoor Centre near Blanefield which is used by the Scout movement. Auchengillan was opened in 1926 by the founder of the Scout movement Robert Baden-Powell .The centre is currently celebrating a century of outdoor adventure and looking ahead to the next 100 years of outdoor experiences. Auchengillan 100 | Auchengillan Outdoor Centre share.google/ip2Mx4BgfP8TKE51rTo mark this event, we were requested to build a memorial cairn on one of the highest points of the facility. Paddle stone was the 'building material' of choice for the cairn, a first for a few of those present who were engaged on the build.Great progress made today , with perhaps half a shift's work required tomorrow to complete the task.
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West Of Scotland Dry Stone Walling Association

1 month ago

A braw day at yesterday's Kilmacolm & Port Glasgow 191st Annual Show giving members of the public a demonstration of our craft.There was a bulge on length of wall caused by a sloping stone aswell as poor hearting .The offending section was stripped down and rebuilt. This also gave us an opporchancity to use our 'cargo net' to lift the mighty copes back on to the rebuilt section of wall. Yes, as we pointed out to the public, there is more than one way to lift 'heavy stones'.There was also a steady stream of enquiries at our 'stand' with members of the public perusing folders displaying our work.Many enquiries were also made re our weekend training courses.Yes, overall, a very braw day indeed 😊
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West Of Scotland Dry Stone Walling Association

1 month ago

That's us all set up at The Kilmacolm Show and the weather is set fair.Pop along, loads to see and do for the family, come and say hello and find out more about our 'craft'
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