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Commencement of Demolition & Excavation

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Retaining Wall BLOWS Mud and block everywhere

What happens here

The team, including Sam, Joey, and Blaine, starts the demolition and excavation process. The mini-excavator begins digging out the loose soil, collapsed blocks, and debris from the severely eroded area behind the retaining wall. Other crew members use shovels to assist in clearing materials, ensuring the area is prepped for the subsequent reconstruction. The narrator concludes by emphasizing the upcoming video series, where they will demonstrate the correct methods for building a retaining wall to ensure its longevity.

Goal: Begin demolition of the failed wall and prepare the ground for reconstruction.

Tools and materials

  • Hard Hats — Head protection
  • Mini-Excavator Bobcat 325 — Digging and removing soil and debris
  • Safety Glasses — Eye protection
  • Shovels — Manual clearing of soil and debris
  • Steel-Toed Boots — Foot protection
  • Work Gloves — Hand protection

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whoops did i say that it was already like that i seen it everybody everybody knows that blaine is the name i'm trying to get some shirts made that say build it like blaine yeah build it like he's pretending he didn't hear me i'm surprised you got it up there we were doing we were moving it in the rain he's got the best field of vision out of everybody yeah me except for maybe joey oh look at how destroyed those tracks are who i was talking to alex and he he slipped the same track that we did same one on that same side fell off on him too nope we gotta get some fuel in there laner's my hero really he's like you need to set your standards higher anyways i don't know the code on that one there's it's a funky code where are all my batteries there they are you do all right guys uh first thing we're going to do is we're going to get that fence down that's a pretty sharp looking egg right there all right it's gonna be a good day today uh so i gotta get my impact and my sockets and uh we'll get that fence down um planes running down in the yard to get some stuff that we need to get and uh you should be back right about the time we're done getting everything prepped right there i don't know what's over here oh no yeah yeah that's not good hey those are the paper wasps though so luckily they shouldn't be in the ground okay um they'll they'll be uh there will be a big old hive somewhere but that is that's unfortunate i don't think i got any of my spray any spray in the truck anymore either but i'll go look trying to catch him before he leaves the yard i think he got a couple cans of that wasp killer up there [Music] you know when sam said that there was no drainage anchor get behind the retaining wall ah that did not shock or surprise me in any way shape or form because i could tell almost just by looking at the kind of block that they used that there was going to be other problems with the retaining wall let me explain if you're going to use a cheap block in a retaining wall you're probably going to cheapen out on everything else that makes a retaining wall the right way and there's not a whole lot that goes into these retaining walls but if they are missing any single component then a whole lot can go wrong really fast and so when i see cheap block i'll usually think okay there's probably not going to be a lot of drainage aggregate behind it there probably is not going to be geogrid behind it they probably didn't take the time to base it right and they probably…

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