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Setting Stone Steps

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Landscaping a steep Hill until this happened.

What happens here

With the base prepared, carefully lower the heavy stone steps into position using a mini excavator. Multiple crew members work together: one operating the excavator, and others guiding and adjusting the step by hand. Use a level to ensure each step is perfectly horizontal and a rubber mallet to make fine adjustments, tapping the stone into its final, level position. This process is repeated for each of the 18-19 steps, ensuring a consistent rise and run for comfortable and safe ascent/descent.

Goal: Install each stone step with precision, ensuring proper leveling and alignment.

Tools and materials

  • Gloves Maxiflex — Protecting hands during handling of materials and tools
  • Levels — Ensuring each step is perfectly horizontal and at the correct grade
  • Mini Excavator Bobcat E25 — Lifting and carefully lowering heavy stone steps into place
  • Rubber Mallet — Making precise, gentle adjustments to the stone steps without damaging them
  • Stone Steps — The main components that form the staircase treads
  • String Line — Establishing and maintaining a straight line and consistent grade for the steps

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first hour or so. While they're working on getting that set and stuff, we got edging, drain box, rock, bunch of stuff. Got a whole lot of little things going on at the same time on this one, which is fine. We can kind of split up and everybody going to be staying busy. Little more. Coming right about right. Yep. Go ahead and tear her down. Even a little more You want me? Go ahead. Give that whack cuz I know this is going to go down over here. Good. [Music] The little fine adjustments will get Yeah. by hand. Okay, I'll go ahead and set her down. [Music] The sun, right? A little sweaty action. Yeah, I didn't need to put my log on. I did. Yeah, I mean, I'm right there with you, man. I didn't check the weather. [Music] Landscaping is unique in the fact that it combines two elements in a profession that you don't typically see going hand in hand, and that's artistry and technical skill. There's a certain amount of lick and stick that goes with being a landscaper, but there's times when that can't happen at all. Here's an example. Let's say you're looking at a set of plans, blueprints, and it's got all of your plants put in, and you start to lay them out in the pots, and you're looking at them, and you step back, and you go, you know, I think the purple would go better next to the yellow instead of the yellow next to the red. And that's when you can start to switch things out, get the opinion of the customer. That's a licking stick. But

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