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Additional Soil Excavation for New Wall

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What happens here

The existing slope is further excavated to make space for the new retaining wall. This involves removing more soil from the bank behind the wall alignment. The process is done in sections to maintain site stability and manage the excavated material. The soil is then transported away from the working area using the excavator and skid steer. The video emphasizes that removing and building in sections provides more control over the site and conserves the existing landscape.

Goal: Excavate the bank to create sufficient space for the new retaining wall structure.

Tools and materials

  • Daewoo Excavator — Digging and moving soil
  • Dump Truck — Hauling away excess soil
  • Volvo Skid Steer — Transporting excavated soil to the dump truck

What they say

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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

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