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Fine Excavation of Parking Pad & Retaining Wall Corner

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Building a flagstone wall and prepping for pavers day1

What happens here

The mini excavator (Bobcat 325) is now used for the fine excavation, precisely removing soil to match the depth guided by the string lines. This ensures the sub-base is exactly 12 inches below the final paver height. During this process, a challenging corner section where an existing wooden retaining wall meets the paver area requires special attention. To prevent undermining the unstable old wall and a nearby concrete slab, this specific corner is carefully excavated by hand using shovels, and the removed soil is loaded into the skid steer bucket.

Goal: Achieve precise sub-base depth and safely prepare the retaining wall corner.

Tools and materials

  • Ear Protection — Protecting hearing from machinery noise
  • Measuring Tape — Checking excavation depth
  • Mini Excavator Bobcat — Fine excavation of the parking pad
  • Shovel — Manual excavation at the tricky corner
  • Skid Steer — Receiving excavated soil from manual digging

What they say

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they can still do a little bit more of the excavation with the equipment before they've got to switch over and make a different plan and to make it even more interesting technically by the rules of st. Paul we're not allowed to park in front of our jobsite so someone has to man the truck the entire time for us to be able to load it when the guys are running heavy equipment like this they can't really hear each other so they typically communicate using hand signals which you'll see in just a moment alright so you want to be a foot [Music] he's just taking nice little scoops at a time that's weird we don't want to get any deeper than a foot rain is in the forecast and both Blaine and Tim need the exact same equipment on two different job sites so they put a plan together cuz I'm gonna need the dump trailer tomorrow to serve a project I could get maybe delay one more day you're gonna need it you know you'll use it in the morning cuz I'll need it right away I mean I'll need the mini X and the I didn't ever taken down you can have that I can start taking some trees down but it'd be nice to have a dump trailer but you're gonna need it a little bit longer yeah yeah you pick it up tonight so we ran the company for 20-plus years without ever owning a dump trailer and now that we have one they're finding it difficult to get by without it so you're gonna need it for another half a day he's not don't you yeah I mean they're also at the stage where they've got to address what they're going to do with that tricky retaining wall we know they can't dig it out with a piece of equipment and jeopardize undermining it so everything has to be done by hand

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