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Final Grading and Project Review

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Building a Boulder wall Start to finish

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What happens here

Perform final grading of the topsoil across the entire project area, ensuring a smooth and even surface that integrates seamlessly with the existing lawn. Carefully rake the topsoil to achieve the desired contours and slopes for proper drainage. Place drainage gravel along the base of the house and around the new retaining wall. Finally, create a new gravel driveway or path next to the garage using more gravel. The narrator provides a walk-through of the completed project, highlighting the new boulder wall, stone steps, drainage solutions, and newly graded landscape.

Goal: Ensure all graded areas are smooth and review the completed hardscaping and landscaping.

Tools and materials

  • Drainage gravel — Creating effective drainage paths and a new driveway
  • Plastic edging — Defining landscape beds and drainage areas
  • Rakes — Fine grading and smoothing topsoil
  • Shovels — Detailed work and moving materials
  • Skid steer CAT — Spreading and leveling large quantities of gravel and topsoil
  • Topsoil — Final layer for grading and planting
  • Grass seed — Establishing a new lawn on graded areas

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walked up the hill [Music] so he's got the fabric laid over behind the bait the back of the wall double layered then impervious material laid underneath it and then the rock goes on top of it [Music] wonder why he's hand raking oh i probably couldn't get the loader in i don't know why you hand right there ah probably small enough and they i'm not sure why he's not hyper bucketing it anyway the new grapple we got we love see well here's my final uh walk through of the finished product looks like the customers threw some seed down and started watering it already so tim is showing us the dirt i wonder if he's gonna actually show us the wall someday we'll come back and see the wall take care of this wall it's got a few years left in it though thanks for showing us the dirt tim make it all match with this one here he just for the challenge man the challenge of it can he do it he left that boulder he built that whole thing towards that one bowl the other side to see if he could do it i knew it i knew it didn't get much footage of this wall going in this was all hand work that's hilarious he did that staircase over here god look at that beautiful beautiful i like them small boulders chunked in there like that just dyed it with this you don't have to have it right here but it might need some replacement someday all right dude this was fun it's kind of like just hanging out with you guys right you guys tell me did i talk too much maybe don't tell your stories disappear yeah that is cool that is cool here's a little portion of the job i failed to get on camera it was a hectic crazy day we had to get out of here before the homeowners had guests over so i forgot to bring it over here but uh made a little driveway so we can get his mower in and out of the barn here and uh touched up the front because the drip edge here or where the water rolls off created a void but now it'll splash down on the rocks and plastic and this should help with some runoff on the side

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