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Construct Boulder Retaining Wall

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Start to Finish Rebuild -day 1 of 2

What happens here

Large boulders are carefully placed to form the retaining wall. A Bobcat E325 excavator is used to lift and set each boulder. The process often involves significant manipulation and adjustment to achieve a tight, stable fit. Two workers assist, guiding the excavator operator and making minor manual adjustments to position the boulders effectively, sometimes requiring them to be 'smashed' into place for better contact. Geo-textile fabric is laid between layers to enhance stability and drainage.

Goal: Build a stable and aesthetically pleasing boulder retaining wall.

Tools and materials

  • Bobcat E325 Excavator Bobcat — Lifting and positioning large boulders
  • Boulders — Main components of the retaining wall
  • Geo-textile Fabric — Enhancing stability and drainage behind and between boulder layers
  • Safety Gloves — Protecting hands during manual adjustments

What they say

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torrential downpour come and soak us out [Music] tim shows up to help blaine get a jump start on the boulder retaining wall but blaine has built dozens of boulder retaining walls and doesn't need help the real reason tim is there is because he's sick of doing paperwork in the office the boys are using big boulders and they've got a little excavator so that means they're not able to manipulate the boulders as easy as if they were using the hydrograph but that doesn't mean we can compromise on how the boulders gets placed rain is in the forecast and that means all of the dirt has to come out of the street this was for the broken heart laying the weed to afraid to starve the jews that only came to pass them by here's to the broken man who stood in ward when it hurt you can't shows me that faith [Music] by smooth packing the top like you see right here he's making sure that the dirt will shed as much water as possible if he left it rough and uneven it would trap and contain water and make the soil that much harder to work with after the rains pass through the boulders don't always play together nicely and that means sometimes one just won't cooperate enough to allow us to figure out how to use it inside of a boulder wall and so it gets all the way [Music] so they hand place the next stone to get as tight of a fit as possible good if you can flip it around it's got a nice v to it like turn it if it was turned the other way yeah it would fit like that just kind of scoot this over just a hair in the back it'll drop down or give it a love cap or something perfect give that give that big one a smack because we lost we lost the contact i mean i think that's wedged in there pretty good

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