Building a Failed Boulder Wall

It doesn't continue to ch flake off. There's nothing more uncomfortable than running an excavator tipped sideways. Oh, there's another one. [Music] >> All right. Good morning, one and all. Big boulders means a big retaining wall. Why do we have such big boulders on this one? Uh because whoever had built this wall first kind of used too small of ones and didn't uh put them in there properly and it's starting to fail on the customer. So they want something that's really beefy and is going to last them a long time and is safe. You know, older tenants living here. So, and that's a very typical thing when you guys that's a it's a shortcut that contractors we buy these by the ton, >> right? But we install them by the square foot. And when we buy small boulders by the ton, we can get more square feet because less boulder is going behind. That's not good though because what happens is you call us out for this. Look at that. That fence is jammed >> and it is going to come out a few more feet. So now it's going to be, you know, four to 4 and 1/2 ft tall. But >> Oh god, this is another one of those freickers. >> Yep. So pop the fence out. We'll pull all these boulders out. And again, it's just a matter of, you know, the boulders are angled down. And they're going to put this round one right on top so it can just spit out when everything's getting pushed around. And over here, this one is uh I know there's one really Yeah, you can see instead of putting this one like this would be the face and you would have it buried back deeper into the bank, they just short and skinny stacked it up and now it's actually pushing out and dirt's settling. >> They did it on that one. They did it on that one. They did it on this one. >> So you can see where this is. When you look at a boulder, you're optimizing it for the most square footage of the face. >> Exactly. >> Uh cuz so the a boulder like this should have been laid down to give more meat into the hill so that you don't have cuz we've got the search charge from there's a slope behind it. You got a searchcharge from the the the building itself. And then there's no towin, >> right? >> Look at this. Look at this. There's no tow buried in. >> There's there's zero towin. We're going to give it a good 10 in to a foot. Burying it in. You know, we're going to add some fill to the front, too. So, our initial base will probably be a little, you know, >> how's Timmy getting down here? >> Uh, we're just going to run along the edge here. We're going to start on that end and kind of work our way out. >> Are you going to build the Are you going to build the road? Level that out. >> You got to level that out. I mean, there's nothing worse to you guys, and Alex knows this, but if you have never ran an excavator, there's nothing more uncomfortable than running an excavator tipped sideways cuz you always feel you always get that weird feeling in your butt. You know what I mean? >> Yeah. It's just not comfortable. >> It's terrible. >> Your whole body's tight cuz you're trying to hold yourself up and Yeah. >> Yeah. Yeah. It's awful. Is this the only wall we're doing or do we got more? >> There's a bunch of other walls out here. Um, this is like the main scope of the work. So, we're going to be removing all that rock. Getting all these grates set. >> Oh, we're doing work back here. >> Yep. Yeah, we're This is all everything. Drain boxes. You can see they kind of have, you know, water's all just running right back here. >> They got a sprinkler system in front of this wall. So, this wall has been getting sprinkled, which is another no, >> right? >> Don't sprinkle your freaking retaining walls, people. Uh, it's not that they're they they can't be sprinkled, but don't do it if you don't have to, unless you're going to plant the retaining wall, especially on a situation like this. And then I could see where the drain tile is actually running straight underneath. So, they got the wall right here. It's daylighting out. You That's drain tile right there. >> Yeah, I think that they have existing drain tile up there right now. >> Right there. Yeah. Coming down straight through. We're going to do the same thing except for we're going to go, you know, all the way into the woods. >> Get get it gone. Get it down and gone. >> Yep. So, let's look at the tools of the trade on this one. We've got the dayoo, which is uh it works pretty good now. Or >> Yeah. Yeah. >> Yeah. Okay. We got a CMP. It's uh Hydrograph. That's a damn good grapple. Good company, good grapple. They're good folks. So if no matter what you buy from them, just know that. And they don't pay me. They don't even talk to me. So it's no big deal. I I I just haven't talked to Derek or the team in a year and a half or two years almost. So doesn't mean that they don't make good stuff. >> Yeah, I love their Hydro Bucket. I love the Grapple. The Hydro Buckets on every site. >> Yeah, Hydro Hydrobucket is a phenomenal thing. Um, >> yeah, >> I think they I think I think there's only one other company making anything like a hydro bucket and I don't even know who that other company is. >> So, there is another kind of a hydro bucket type of a thing out there, but I don't know who it is. Now, I've got a Rockaway bucket, >> but that's not a hydrograph. That's designed to pick rocks out of dirt. >> Yeah. Well, I got you here. >> Yep. >> Southland trailer. Tell me about this. How How's that been? We've had it for 2 years now. >> Oh, thing's great. Yeah. >> Oh, yeah. Okay. Yeah. No problem at all whatsoever. Uh loading it up. I put some good uh you know 8,000lb axles. So, I've had 16,000 loaded up to the max and lift it up no problems. I like these door latches that you know at first I was kind of like I don't really know about those. But I would take these over this barn door style any day of the week. >> Yeah. I don't like the barn door style. I got them on my Texas Pride. I'm not happy. God, these are good looking boulders. >> Yeah. Nice and big and beefy for the basement. >> Oh, yep. >> Holy crap. But while we're looking at a boulder, let's just look at it. Right. So, this is why they don't buy this because this boulder here is not going to give you as many square feet because it's got so much mass. You look at the m just the mass of this thing. These are super expensive for us to buy. >> Yeah. Uh, and they just don't go as far as putting a whole bunch of little teeny tiny stones all over the place. But now my ADHD has kicked in. So now I want to talk about the trailer some more. Uh, squirrel. Wait, let's talk about squirrel. No, look at the bottom. I did want to mention that. Um, we've had this trailer now for a couple years and that bottom is does not look like an ocean floor. >> No. And uh, we just did a pool demo with this dump trailer. a whole pool demo because the job site was just one block away from Fatalones. So, it was like concrete. I mean, everything concrete in here. Huge huge load. >> Dang. >> So, and yeah, holds up good. All right, let's take a look at the paint job. Everybody's everybody's critical of these Southland trailers for some reason or another. And Southland, what they do, and again, they're not paying me, but what they do is they paint them the same that they paint pickup trucks. This is not a powdercoated process. This is a baked on finish just like you would your truck. We've had this one using it and abusing it because these guys aren't easy. Yeah, we it it's it gets put to work, that's for sure. >> I don't I mean I um I see rust here, but I don't see anything here. >> Scratches here. >> We've got a scratch with rust, but look at that. It stops. It's almost like it doesn't continue to to flake off >> and the back and the gates. I mean, we're putting the ramps and whatnot on there, putting machines in and out of there. So, >> you got a little little dinger right there. >> Yeah. >> This is what happens of 2 years of construction. >> And not even construction, demolition. >> Demolition. Exactly. >> And how many miles have do you think you put on this thing? >> Oh gosh. >> 30 40,000 miles, I think. >> At least 40,000 mi. Cuz when you look at the the tires, it's time for new tires. >> Yeah. I'm just milking that along just a little bit longer. >> There ain't no milk in that. That's got to If Timmy saw that, >> he's been seeing it. He's been complaining for two months. I said just We have to buy You see these are the light tires so they wear down really fast. We get the H's. >> Yeah. >> For our trailers cuz we put them on the shirt track three years ago. Never wore down. So I'm just waiting till the other ones are kind of, you know, cuz you can't buy one of those tires. They're a different size that will throw everything off. >> No, we need all new tires. And you're going to regret that. >> I know. It's to the point. >> You're going to regret waiting cuz I'm going to tell you right now. You may get a few extra miles, but it ain't worth the time you're going to spend broke down on the side of the road going, "Uh, I need a tire. I need it now. I can't get can't move." Blah, blah, blah. >> It's the next thing on the on the agenda is to drop this off and get the tires put on there. >> What are you doing today? >> I'm I am busy today. So, not today. >> Oh, not today, boss. We're busy. >> Another day. >> We'll get it down. Oh man. All right. Well, let's keep this show rolling. I'm going to hand the camera over to Timmy. He's gonna crank this thing open tomorrow because otherwise I think he'd just be sliding sideways down that hill today. >> Yeah. Make it more >> two and a 2.55 in of rain last night. And Timmy at Timmy's house, he said he had 2 to three inches of hail >> on the ground. Like snow. >> It was like snow. Yeah. >> Y keep the show rolling. Heat. [Music] Heat. Heat. [Applause] Heat. [Music] Heat. [Music] Hey I I hey I hey I hey I hey hey I hey hey I hey hey I hey hey I hey hey I I [Music] Heat. Heat. [Applause] [Music] Heat. [Music] Heat. Heat. [Music] Hey, hey, hey. [Music] Hey, hey, hey. [Music] Heat. Heat. N. [Music] Hey, [Music] hey, To do this build the right way meant we needed to import larger stones and we needed a better variety so that we could make sure that everything we were putting and reinstalling back into that wall was the right size right out of the gate. We can reuse the old stones that are there, but we need better ones for the base course and for strategic structural places of the project. Heat. Heat. [Music] [Applause] [Music] Heat. Heat. [Music] [Applause] [Music] Oh, look at that pretty kitty. Good lord. Move over. Heat. Heat. [Music] We done. [Music] All [Music] right, guys. Well, that's going to call it for today's video, but not for today's project. We've got a lot more coming up on this one, and things get interesting in the next video. So, make sure you hit that subscribe button and come back for more. But as always, I want to say to you guys, God bless and go get them. We'll catch you guys on another one. [Music]