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How to Build a Boulder Retaining wall

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Tools and materials

  • Daewoo 75V Excavator
  • Boulders
  • Structural Fill Soil

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and that goes in horizontally every 2 feet and then we angle it up. We got the 33inch commercial Ram Xpacker. That's actually ours. We bought it from a rental store. But you can see that's how we get all the compaction behind the wall. So it's not just so soft soil going in place. And then you can see how he lays this out like a jigsaw puzzle. Now it looks like he's using a basket weave pattern on this job site. Any particular reason? Is the customer want that or no? No. Just what he's prefer. That's what's working. He can throw a random boulder in if you want. In fact, this would technically be considered a random boulder. This big bottom one here. Um, sometimes what he'll do is he'll put them up vertically just to break up the pattern a little bit. But I don't know. I think this is a pretty good looking retaining wall. It's going to keep that deck and the rest of the house from falling into the lake. So, looks like he's making some good progress, especially for the rains we've recently had. Um, and after this wall gets built up, then it's over to the other side and then we're out of here. What do you think, Tim? Two days. Yeah, two days. No problem. The grades are a little bit deceiving in this case. It's tough to tell, but we have about a 16 ft drop. Hence, that's why we're going to need a 16ft tall wall. What you're going to find is when this project is done, you're going to see a retaining wall that cuts through here and then it wraps up and then it wraps around and then it hooks into the corner of the deck up there, which allows us access to come straight down through the middle. But not just us.

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