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Understand Specialized Equipment and Boulder Sizing

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How to Build a Boulder Retaining wall

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Tools and materials

  • Daewoo 75V Excavator
  • 2-foot and 18-inch Boulders
  • 3-foot Boulders
  • 4-foot Boulders

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the requirements, surveying with the city and approved. Here's the machine we're going to use. It's nothing more than a daywoo 75, but the key component to build these walls the right way attachment, not the machine, but this part. But what happens is he can grab a boulder with this machine, pick it up, and as you can see, he can spin that baby 360°. So he can take a boulder and put it anywhere he wants it in place like a jigsaw puzzle. Without that attachment, you couldn't do a job like this. We're going to be using 4ft boulders as our base. when you're using a boulder that's big enough to sleep on. Okay, that puts it in perspective. These things are gigantic. We're going to be using threeft boulders as secondary courses and 2ft and 18in boulders for our tiptop course. You can't build a structural retaining wall using these smaller stone. This is not technically a landscaping job. This is a structural retaining wall. Those smaller stones, they're awesome for smaller projects. There's a time and a place when you get involved in a project like this where you're holding up a house. You got to have the right tools and you got to have the right materials and you got to have the right plan. You don't lick and stick. We've

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