Avoid the 'Bad Cheat' in Boulder Orientation

better long-term result alright next let's talk about how a contractor can cheat when they're building a boulder wall now this is a fairly decent stone you see this flat surface right here this gives me the optimum ability to lay this thing down so that I can stack other stones on it you see the length of this Boulder and then it's skinnier this way than it is long this way and a contractor that we buy these things on a price by the ton so we buy them by weight but a lot of times we charge customers by the square foot so when we're looking at this Boulder we got a big face right here and then a small face right here well this Boulder should be literally just picked up and sandwiched in to the wall but a contractor a lot of times will flip that up and put the face exposing outward putting the biggest surface area facing out means that he's optimizing his square footage on that Boulder but he's compromising the long-term straw actual integrity potentially compromising the long-term structural part a integrity of the retaining wall because then we only have this little tiny squeezed part holding soil back and it should be flipped the other way so I'm gonna be sandwiching this one in the right way and if I wanted to do it the wrong way you would be seeing this part you won't this is the part you're gonna see so when you're attempting to position boulders with a skid loader you have zero ability to actually maneuver the boulders around after you have them set on your Forks so really what you've got to do is lift the boulder around on the ground until you can see the position on the ground that you want in the wall once you discover that then you can pick the boulder up and then put it into place now you also have to take into consideration what angle your machine is at the skid loader itself is not going to be able to spin around and get in and out as easily as an excavator with a grapple so you have to know ahead of time what side you're gonna grab that holder from and what positioning you want it before you set it into place we've got a long way to go on this one and this is an excellent spot to jump in