Rough Grading and Wall Completion (Day 03)

7:05

12:16

8.4K views

At 7:05 in

Can they BUILD the wall in time!

Watch on YouTube

What happens here

On Day 3, the crew focuses on grading the rest of the yard, ensuring it slopes correctly away from the house and towards the street. This involves rough-grading the soil using a combination of hand tools and possibly a mini-excavator or skid steer with a hydro bucket for larger areas if available (though it caused delays in the video). The existing soil is moved and smoothed to create the desired drainage patterns. The retaining wall is further built up and secured. Concrete chunks unearthed during excavation are removed. The primary goal is to establish the proper contours of the yard before adding new landscaping elements.

Goal: Complete rough grading of the yard and finish building the retaining wall.

Tools and materials

Hydro Bucket — Moving large amounts of dirt for grading
Levels — Ensuring proper slope and block alignment
Rakes — Leveling and smoothing soil
Retaining Wall Blocks — Building the retaining wall
Shovels — Moving and shaping soil
Wheelbarrow — Transporting debris and materials
Concrete Chunks — Debris removal from excavation

What they say

(2,172 characters)

Hide

stretches all right good morning everybody gosh it's another beautiful day out here today I will take it so you're going to have to use your imagination for a little bit of what we got done this morning it was a mess we needed the Hydra bucket for some grading we were set up to grade right away in this right away in the morning um Zach got down in the yard bright and early to have that Hydra bucket out here by 8 30 or so cuz that was the first thing that we were going to do gets down to the yard and it was still out on another site so he had to drive out on to the like the opposite side of the city's in traffic to grab it and by the time he got down here we we didn't need it anymore I tell you so here's what we got done this morning we did get this grade roughed out and then we got our trench dug for all of our base and stuff like that we got to get some more rocks so sent Zach right back on down to the yard to get some more of that and while he's doing that we're going to get this base in and hopefully well not hopefully we'll have the majority of this W done today and finishing up tomorrow and I feel like I'm really rambling so I'm going to stop talking and we will just get into it all right so first majority of Base done I did have to kick everything down this way a couple of inches after I got uh got down to that end went to go line it up off the side of the step there cuz we want to hug that tight and uh so next step I'm going to get these returns going uh actually be back with more rock here pretty quick then while I'm working on the returns just he going to be building and back filling behind me and then building and back filling and building and back filling and then hopefully we'll be done oh speak of the devil and he shall appear look at that who that right there can't see him yet cuz he's so freaking short there he is right there look at that guy woo he has returneth with materials my man I was all freaking was all wound up about this mess of a morning or whatever and I I I like mismeasured lining up off of the stairs so I had to shift everything down 2 in smooth yep yep like dropping a piano Sam I know I know I just I know

Auto-generated from the video audio.