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Planning and Boulder Placement Strategy

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Rebuilding Retaining walls-Start to Finish

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The presenter outlines the project for the day: building the most challenging section of the retaining wall, which is the longest side of the house. He explains the strategy for boulder placement, which involves picking up a boulder, rotating it to determine its best fit, imagining its position in the wall, and then picking it up from the opposite side for final placement. This methodical approach ensures proper orientation and stability.

Goal: Understand the strategy for selecting and positioning boulders for the retaining wall.

Tools and materials

  • Boulders N/A — Main components of the retaining wall. These are local sandstone boulders

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today's project so one of the easier ways i i'm doing this i come up to my pile and i grab a boulder and then i put it out here and i drive all the way around it i flip it and rotate it and i get it imaginarily positioned into the wall the way i want it and then i pick it up from the opposite side up here so that i get it positioned so wherever i just drive in i can hopefully just set it down so let's check this boulder out and see which position we want it this is going to be a corner piece this is one of the larger boulders and it's got a slide right into the corner and this is our best choice for this so let's just take a peek at it what he got well i don't think i gave you before yet so there it is before and what we don't want is a wall we don't want this vertical straight up and down and before what we had was a wall that came out here and another wall that came out here and this is more of what we're trying to do kind of more of a settings more of a naturalistic want to try to incorporate the house right into the whole landscaping

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