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Hand-Selecting Boulders at the Aggregate Pit

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What happens here

At the aggregate pit, the team meticulously hand-selects the boulders for the retaining wall project. This process is crucial to ensure that each stone meets the specific design criteria, which includes achieving flat faces and flat tops for a modular, consistent look while incorporating a random stone pattern. The speaker demonstrates the difference between the smaller, appropriately sized stones for the current project and much larger stones required for a future project (a 14-foot tall engineered retaining wall). This highlights the importance of precise stone selection based on the specific needs of each job, ensuring the right materials are used for structural integrity and aesthetic appeal.

Goal: Select appropriate boulders for design and structural requirements

Tools and materials

  • Boulders N/A — Construction of the new retaining walls
  • Daewoo Excavator Daewoo — Lifting and moving large boulders for selection

What they say

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we'll see you at the aggregate so we're at the anger get we've hand selected the song specifically for this project what i want to show you is a comparison of stones now these stones are sized for the job that we're on but right behind us we've also selected stones for the next project we're going on which is a 2 000 square foot engineered boulder retaining wall we're just going to show you the difference what we're going to be dealing with on this next project is a 14 foot tall wall that has to be built to keep the house from sliding in too late so when we get into the larger projects we like to use larger stones and we set this up so that we have all of our stones ready to go these will be base stones on the next job but you can see that this stone would have absolutely no business being on the job that we're currently working on it's a little bit of a unique relationship we have that gives us the ability to actually come into the aggregate pit and personally select the stones the only way we could do this is by making arrangements well in advance that we've made an agreement that allows us to come in and do that that gives us the ability to make sure that whatever it is we're building we have the right materials for that specific job site so we're at the final stages of this

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