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Perform Excavation for Terraces

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How to turn a hill into a flat yard with a Retaining wall

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What happens here

The first major phase involves extensive excavation to create flat, usable terraces from the steep hillside. This process requires heavy machinery, such as a large excavator (specifically, a Daewoo 75V mini excavator is shown) and a New Holland 480 skid steer. Hundreds of cubic yards of soil are hauled away to achieve the desired flatter grades. Simultaneously, the excavation prepares the aggressive slopes for stabilization. The process emphasizes minimizing the need for extensive retaining walls to keep costs down, leveraging the excavation itself to create as much flat space as possible.

Goal: Create flat, usable terraces and prepare slopes for stabilization by excavating and removing excess soil.

Tools and materials

  • Excavator Daewoo 75V — Large-scale earthmoving and digging
  • Skid Steer Loader New Holland 480 — Moving excavated soil and materials, assisting with grading
  • Excess Soil N/A — Material to be removed from the site

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uh behind the scenes how we actually accomplish this. What you can see is we have an assortment of stones of various sizes. And what he does is he uses the largest stones for the base for the lower stones. and then he uh sorts and separates the smaller stones based on where he wants to place them in the structure itself. Um we like to be able to get those big 3 to 5ft stones on the bottom and then go the subsequent courses anywhere from 3 to four uh and then smaller sizes on up from there. The retaining wall itself in this case is a random pattern. Uh we like to break up a standard basket weave style boulder wall by putting a few boulders in uh at different um different angles just to give it a little bit of interest instead of having it looked like we laid uh like like we laid a bunch of uh bricks on top of each other and just a a standard brick form pattern or a basket weave pattern. So the retain this retaining wall is the random style and we need

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