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Install Deadman Anchors & Cables

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Day 1: Emergency Foundation Repair

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What happens here

To provide long-term stability and prevent the wall from bowing again, a "deadman" anchoring system is installed. First, the mini excavator digs a trench further back from the garage wall where the deadmen will be buried. Cables are then threaded through pre-drilled holes in the reinforced sections (corfills) of the wall. These cables are wrapped around heavy timber deadmen placed in the trench. A turnbuckle is attached to the cables to allow for manual tensioning and fine-tuning of the wall's position. This system provides continuous inward tension, counteracting the external soil pressure.

Goal: Install a permanent anchoring system to hold the wall in its straightened position.

Tools and materials

  • Bobcat 325 Mini Excavator Bobcat — Digging trenches for the deadmen
  • Cables — Connecting the wall to the deadmen anchors
  • Heavy Timber Deadmen — Buried anchors for the wall stabilization system
  • Turnbuckles — Adjusting the tension of the cables

What they say

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is he actually wants to puncture a hole through the wall and wrap a cable around the core fill then he wants to tie that to a dead man back behind the garage the next step is to dig a trench where the dead men in place all right so obviously cable we're gonna loop it around on the inside bring it out that way run it up through the channel and then loop it around those beams we get in there and bury it a little more I can grab it here I got it wasn't one thing long once you chew it I got and we'll sit right here sounds good Frankie also wants to add a turnbuckle to the system so he can make any final adjustments to the wall by hand I think and then that way then we'll go over it and then that bigger one will be on top they're both tension will do on it yeah he's gonna wrap it around two dead men because well honestly Frankie that likes to over engineer just about anything he goes yeah and then lay that yeah literally I don't anyway you wanna there it'll take itself up once we with the dead men in place Frankie does the final tweaks on the garage wall using the turnbuckle on that cable the next thing that we've got to do is backfill over the top of that trench but we've still got a long way to go on this job this was just day one my plan with this video series is to bring you a day-by-day journal of our job sites good bad or in between this job just happened today and so I'm releasing it today tune back in because you're gonna see how the rest of this job goes and basically as real time as I can make it god bless and go get them you guys we'll see you on the next one where we finish back filling the garage wall we regrade on the outside and I don't know what's gonna happen because it's actually going on right now

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