Living Stone Dry Stone Bridge

A thing of beauty. blown away! WOW!

Is that Hobbiton? ;)

It's a beautiful structure, made more beautiful by the fact that it is held together only by gravity and friction.

fantastic craftsmanship...

Sooo cool Sooo impressive ... Thanks for sharing

Beautiful job, well done!

Nice job.

Seriously good work

Beautiful

I wonder if I could 3D print the long slabs. They have concrete house printers now. I could print the wedge slabs with no undulations. I know... I just bastardized the entire "stone" thing. Just thinking out loud.

Hey! I know... Make small injections of an epoxy that goes in well and "hardens" with elasticity, Kind of like the modern tar. You could probably make one from hemp. It is post construction, so it is still an all stone bridge as far as mechanical structure and support, but rains and silts one supposes is the current "sealing method" over time or do they never "leak" beneath or I guess it doesn't matter on a small bridge that will not have walk through traffic beneath the bridge.

Outstanding excellent workmanship and perfect location just missing a dam with a waterwheel and power house get busy lol

Sulla pietra chiave di volta bisogna scolpire l'anno di costruzione...
2020 A D !

I'm a dry stone mason from the west of Ireland, I love seeing these videos so much. The hardest part of being a stone mason is that it takes so much time to get it perfect but each job feels like a work of art that you can't rushb

Wow, you are the GOAT. This is excellent work, engineering and assembly. Thanks for sharing

Absolutely beautiful. So inspiring to quit the suburb life and go build something beautiful!

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Beautiful. There should be more projects like these nowadays! How long does it take to build?

wonderful work. congratulations.

Damn that’s really cool. Good work dear craftsman

Beautiful work man! though people in the comments think this will last for more than a thousand years but there is a reason people don't build bridges like this and it's because while the stones are tough, the ground isn't and one big freak flood or a lot of small floods after the course of a few decades will eventually erode the base and it will fall, it doesn't matter where you live, if it's over a waterway eventually there will be a flood. It's true that stone bridges like this lasted for a long time but only because people maintained and rebuilt them, hell even fords that commonly preceded a bridge and where commonly right next to each other needed to be maintained.

woooooow 😍😍😍😍😍😍😍😍😍

Сказочный мостик!!! Браво мастеру!!!👍🏻👍🏻👍🏻👍🏻👍🏻👍🏻👍🏻👍🏻👍🏻👍🏻👍🏻👍🏻👍🏻

Beautiful!

MAGNIFICENT!

How long did this take?

Pure skill at its best

I still can't wrap my head around how the arch stays put.

The trolls will be very happy under there.

I don’t like to match up permanent fixes/materials/remedies squandered into temporary solvings/savings/values. That path is too narrow even for a lawn tractor to squeeze across that ditch. Bridge walls are intentionally narrow to prohibit any loads which test expectations . I don’t resent misuse for cemeteries’s sakes; but what are more appropriate uses? How much much graveyard monument area is required anyhow?

Future area uses cannot add onto it useful construction. So within one human generation, this becomes a land-lock of inconvenience, because even Greenpeace’s obstructions are legislated as offenses. It is cute but not so realistic.

Great, now I want to look for property with a stream . . . .
I envy your circumstances that enabled you to do this inspiring work . . . . it's not the same without the water. I've built many walls and rock structures, though not for a living, just pure enjoyment. I've put up structures on family member's properties as well, that will be there long after I'm gone. Great job, thank you for recording and sharing!

Impressive

romans build it

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Best way to build small bridges, this will last forever… well definitely not forever but pretty dang long, also since it’s just rocks it’ll probably look just as beautiful in 100 years, if not more so with moss and stuff, I just love rock work

Actually I should probably make something like this

Magnifique

I want one.

It's a gravity art.

Simplify Beautiful

Beautiful work !

Absolutely beautiful!!!

Impressive. We should be proud of your creativity and craftsmanship!

It’s genius……

I am way beyond impressed to the point of envy!

One of the best things I've seen in a long time. Beautiful.

Spectacular...

Thank you for sharing and inspiring

I am not surprised that the last dry stone fixed in place was a tapered wedge known as 'key stone' which holds the key to the bridge's strength!
The workmanship and the resulting beauty is excellent!

I'd love to have something like that in my Garden one day if I ever had one

I am lost for words. This is an amazing job, and will last probably forever.