Boulder Transport and Initial Placement

and then one of them of course is a bad cheat and this is something that contractors are doing when they're going out and putting in Boulder walls for customers by the time you're done with this job hopefully you'll have enough basic knowledge to be able to put together your own Boulder wall spec out your boulders because not all stones are designed or created equally and we're going to be limiting our equipment to a skid loader with a set of Forks because not everybody has an excavator with the grapple attachment so we're going to show you that it is possible to install a Boulder retaining wall when you don't have the absolute perfect piece of equipment to accomplish the job so let's get this thing going now if you're using a skid loader Forks are going to be much easier to build a boulder wall with than a bucket because you're going to want to be able to adjust the tines on those Forks in and out to be able to get underneath the stones and pick them up without carrying dirt the adjustability is also going to help you when you're setting your stones as well so a good set of forks goes a long way to accomplishing this job now you'll be surprised with just how much control you have and your ability to manipulate those boulders into place with a set of Forks but building the boulder wall is a lot easier if you have a second person there and that person all they have to do is stay out of the way and occasionally put in a shim yes you do have to shim Boulder walls and there's a reason why that I'm going to show you in just a minute I think this