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Retaining Wall Construction - Foundation Layers

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How NOT to help trees guys. (while building a retaining wall)

What happens here

The team continues work on the retaining wall. This involves shoveling gravel into place along the base of the wall. Geo-grid material is laid down on the compacted base, extending into the excavated hillside to provide reinforcement. Additional layers of retaining wall blocks are placed, and the area behind the blocks is backfilled with gravel, which is then compacted using a plate compactor. This process ensures a stable and durable retaining wall structure.

Goal: Construct stable foundation layers for the retaining wall.

Tools and materials

  • Kubota R530 Wheel Loader Kubota — Transporting and dumping gravel backfill
  • Plate Compactor Wacker Neuson — Compacting gravel base and backfill
  • Shovel — Spreading and leveling gravel
  • Geo-grid — Reinforcing the retaining wall and hillside
  • Gravel — Creating a stable base and backfill for the retaining wall
  • Retaining Wall Blocks — Constructing the visible face of the wall

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taking underground you have to locate utilities but there's not just one number that you have to call like in Minnesota it's 811 or go for State one call or whatever you what have you but in your area it's going to be something different but those numbers only Mark Public Utilities when you're working on a big job site you also have to mark private utilities and let's talk about the difference public utilities are what come off from the public infrastructure into the site that's all they have to mark but once you're in the site and you're working there could be a spiderweb of utilities all over and that's where you need a private utility locator but here's what you don't do don't blindly trust that they're accurate don't blindly trust that everything they show you is going to be for your is going to be right because a lot of times they're not and today you're going to see that exactly happen so you have to always go move forward with a certain C amount of skepticism and a certain amount of caution because even though you may know where the line is they may be off by 1 2 3 ft or they may not have marked something at all and as a contractor you're going to see all of it and today you're going to see one of those exact scenarios happen here in just a little bit

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