Did we STOP losing money yet?!? 2/4

[Music] all right guys so we are back out on our site today after like [Music] four days of awful weather it's gonna be a good day though because the volvo started first try i was betting against it but [Music] luckily i was wrong anyways planned for today we're going to tear that wall out up to the corner we're going to tear more of the top out and we're just going to keep building we actually got some extra hands today so blaine and i can base and then other two boys can build walls so it's gonna be a good day [Music] eight inches of snow we got eight inches of heavy heart attack snow right in october october 20th so this had to be about october 22nd [Music] thankfully the pile was tarped and with that snow blanket over it the soil ground's probably soft not frozen i'm gonna guess that snow insulated the soil because we were right at that that freeze fall state [Music] foreign so we're not tearing out the entire retaining wall from start to finish because we don't want to basically hog up the entire parking lot to do that so we're going to leave some of it in place while we build and then we're going to take out just enough that we can build it back up and then use that material to backfill the other portion of the retaining wall so it's kind of like we're flipping the soil from one side of the site to the other side of the site but when it gets really bad like this stuff we have to haul it out [Music] so we found out that that parking lot has flooding issues every single year that's what we were told at least so all of these things started to come to light after we had completely wrapped up the entire retaining wall and a person came out that i think lived in the association and just started to share with us all of the issues they had they have um they have to drill holes in the parking lot because they get water blisters forming i've never heard of that is that crazy uh the units are flooding someone told us i mean it's just one thing after another on this site that would have been nice if we would have known about it before we got [Music] started [Music] we're running a little behind today because i uh we needed glue and i had to turn around and run back up to my house to get it because i haven't been keeping it in the truck and keep it in my house so it doesn't freeze and get wrecked because that stuff is expensive this is sam's favorite caulking gun i think he'll probably walk you through it but in the corners when we come to our corners you can't always get the pin holes to line up so we heavily glue the corners and we'll show you how we build a corner we actually overlay the corners and overcompensate them [Music] you'll see in the bank some of there's some of the dead men left in there sam is going to do a really good explanation of why that's okay to leave in place he does it as good as anybody i know can do it so we'll just let him talk about that in a little bit that other retaining wall that's above us that will get yanked and hauled out it's just some of those dead men can stay in place [Music] quite a pretty good day today again we got a lot a lot done god site's so muddy you can hear it squish so plan for tomorrow first thing the rest of this upper wall is coming out we need to be six feet back from the front of our blocks for the geo grid we're at like four right now so we got two more feet to go that's gotta come down [Applause] [Music] see if we tear it out too fast and then we get a rain or whatever it just gives us a little bit more control over the site to remove it in sections and build in sections and also conserves more of the site itself we don't tear everything out all at once but it is a little more difficult to work we use that grapple for everything we're just used to using it now i mean we can use it like a bucket we use it for demolition we use it for boulder wall installation i mean if we were gonna go dig a full basement or something like that we'd take it off but for just what we do it's just like having an actual hand you know compared to a tilt rotator or something else uh that rotates around like this they don't have a very good grapple or thumb on them like with this thing this is this is like having a big old mitt you're working with it's pretty nice and it rotates in all the same directions as a tilt rotator basically it has just has a different learning curve look at all the rock and the retaining wall so even though we're burying that rock we've at times we've got two feet of rock and then it kind of this is the face of the wall we put the rock in and let it fluff down and then we put the dirt up but we always keep that 12 inches exposed even though below it is almost two feet of rock and then it goes back down to 12 inches and then two feet that's how we build it in sections going up the more drainage aggregate you have the the less your your actual drain tile will work i started to explain this in the other video but here's a great example by over compensating on the drainage aggregate the entire wall now will weep there will be no water getting stuck in any one zone and therefore the drain tile should never actually function this is kind of a cool just top down that you see how we build these things all right so we modified our plant a little bit initially we were going to leave the remnants of this corner of the old timber wall in but we are going to get a little bit more grid in off of the corner in order for us to get it in at the length we want it to be this has to come out now normally it would be fine to to leave that in there there's a ton of dead men going back in there this wall was built extremely solid wasn't going to go anywhere so normally you can bury that stuff and to rot they need moisture air and sunlight and when you get timbers for example encapsulated in that hyper compacted soil where it's not getting access to any light or any oxygen they're not going to rot they'll get waterlogged like a son of a gun you dig run out they'll be weighing you know four times as much as they went in but they won't rot so it's normally all right to leave that kind of stuff in there and the only reason we're taking it out is so that we can get more grit in on our corner for extra stabilization so everything sam said what you need the three components moisture air and sunlight was accurate except you don't need the sunlight um but basically what i think he was referring to was meaning it's exposed to the element that's going to destroy your retaining wall much faster than if it's buried in dirt so what i was saying is when we build them in two foot lifts we flip the grid up then we put the dirt in we pack that in two lifts boom boom and then we roll the grid down and then we're ready to go for the next one so we build everything in two foot lifts hope that's clear we don't put two feet of dirt in we put one foot of dirt in and pack it well in this case they they're also sealing it at the end so we've you've seen before we had that monster packer in place that's what we use to pack but they seal the soil it's just weird but we like to seal the soil because then you can't get water wicking into the water this thing right here milwaukee's m18 caulking gun i love it i wish we had gotten it sooner all right so with these corner blocks you can't get pins in them just with how they overlap on the course below so we gotta glue them and uh we're gonna glue the everleven heck out of this thing and then the rest of it will be sitting on rock like a step up but we're gonna go heavy on the glue just for a little bit of extra security [Music] want to make sure they're super clean and not dusty all right like i said we're gonna go real heavy with the glue so we're gonna crank this bad boy up to six and then it takes a second for the motor in here to cycle but once it does these are these blocks are versalock standard units and they are a solid block and they are pinned so the pins go through the holes they have two holes in them and then you see that slot we have to line the pin holes up with the slots lane went to go bust up what looked like a real big chunk of clay threw a shovel into it i mean threw a shovel into it surprise surprise it was a rock so he uh he ganked his back pretty good he's been he's been hurt in the last couple of days so he's uh he's out getting checked out today so we are going to be doing it solo out here today yeah blaine hurt himself pretty bad there for a few days and we don't like to have anybody work by themselves but with i need to start moving that big old pile of dirt over there but with blaine out of the picture sam had to fill in for a couple days by himself till we could get him some help uh pulled off from another site and brought out to um see that that's that packer see the yellow thing right there that's the packer that we use to put the lifts in but that's not to be confused with that little 150 pound plate packer that's a sheep's foot packer that you see over there and it leaves dimples in the ground and with rain snow rain snow we don't want any dimples in the ground so it leaves little literally dimples in the ground and we don't want that so you'll see us flat packing or sheen packing it with the smaller packer all right uh you guys are gonna have to excuse my french on this but today just went here's what's going on so this is this is gonna be our outside 90 right here and then the wall is going to start swinging out that way the first scoop or second scoop we took with the excavator through here water to start pouring in that's four inches of water sitting there where our bases are supposed to be going which is like the last thing you want to see when you're trying to put in a base for a wall uh we're not 100 sure where it was coming in from it filled in so fast here's what we're going to do to alleviate these water problems we're having on our corner though so we heard back from the engineer and all he wants us to do is go down like three feet and just go extra heavy with the base so that the water has somewhere to go um and in order to do that obviously we have to excavate down three feet we just filled this in right now because there's a whole lot of kids running around this complex and tim didn't want any of them falling in there getting hurt but in order to get down that three feet there's a ratio so for every foot you go down you have to go a foot out so we have to cut a chunk pyramid of the parking lot out in order to get that room in front of where our wall is gonna be to do this correction so three feet down we need three feet in front uh we're gonna do that right away in the morning and then uh after that as long as nothing else goes wrong we are just gonna get in as much base as we can through here okay so it's not technically three feet in front it's a it's actually a pyramid so because the weight of the block doesn't go straight down it put it goes outward we've got to compensate and create that pyramid effect so as we go down we may have 12 inches in front 12 inches behind just depends on how much rock we put in also when we get into a soil correction situation like this we like to layer grid into the rock as well and i don't know if we've got that on film or not we've had one problem after another on this job site not just limited to the actual job site but it's almost like this site is cursed to us because our my cameras completely fried out one of them fried after a week of filming we don't i don't even know what's savable at this point um so i mean it's just been one thing after another after another this is one of those jobs where it just feels good to say we're done i don't have to go there tomorrow i'm guessing some of you guys know haven't had that feeling and know about it so anyway that's what's going on on this one god bless go get em you guys and um we're gonna i don't even know what the next video is gonna look like because i got to go through it and start seeing what we've got for footage but hopefully we're just going to be able to release these all right in a row and so that should be on on friday hopefully we'll see you then catch you later