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In modern standards a straight wall is much easier to build because you can just measure once for each row and stretch a string to match the bricks against. A c
by bitslayer 7y ago
In modern standards a straight wall is much easier to build because you can just measure once for each row and stretch a string to match the bricks against. A curved wall requires a level placed against every brick to make sure you are still going straight up. I expect older walls actually trusted the mason's skill without going through all that. The Wiki photo certainly looks true.
- MagnumOpus 7y ago> In modern standards Even in ancient times masons had pieces of strings and plumb-bobs to level vertically and horizontally. The more likely constraint is that before the 20th century the farmer couldn't afford masons to lay orchard walls, but did it himself...