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Continuing Flagstone Wall Construction

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Building a flagstone wall and prepping for pavers day1

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What happens here

Following the first course, the workers continue to build the flagstone wall upwards, carefully selecting and placing additional stones. They maintain the 'jigsaw puzzle' approach, ensuring that each stone is stable and supported by the ones below it. Smaller fragments of stone are frequently used to fill gaps, level surfaces, and provide crucial support for larger, uneven pieces. This intricate placement creates a strong and visually appealing dry-stacked retaining wall.

Goal: Construct the upper courses of the dry-stacked flagstone retaining wall.

Tools and materials

  • Flagstones — Extending the height of the retaining wall
  • Gloves — Protecting hands
  • Sledgehammer — Adjusting stone placement

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so you might have noticed but as the boys are building up the wall they use smaller fragments of the stones to help support the larger ones as they play stuff Blaine gets the biggest heaviest pieces he can for that step unit and a lot of times a piece has to come out to get a different piece that will make the puzzle complete our wall is done with just a scrap pile of rock to choose from this was the best that we could pull off I'll put a little step in here for her she's a little Vance than our age yeah how long did that take like two hours yeah two hours the next step is to excavate for the parking pad but there's a fairly substantial challenge that they've still yet to overcome going on it's where we have to excavate down to is really gonna undermine the corner of this slab and really undermined this busted wall that they got so what we're gonna do so we're gonna have to build a small wall along here to hold all that earthbag and not undermining everything

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