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Assessing Progress and Planning Upper Wall Sections

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The Ugly Hill gets a makeover

What happens here

Upon arriving at the job site, the project manager inspects the newly constructed sections of the boulder retaining wall. He engages in a detailed discussion with the excavator operator about the placement of future boulders, emphasizing the importance of proper 'joint spaces' between stones. This is crucial not only for the structural stability of the wall but also for allowing areas for future planting. He highlights the need for 'meat' (sufficient material) behind smaller stones in the lower courses to ensure robust support for the upper layers.

Goal: The project manager evaluates the completed lower sections of the retaining wall and discusses design elements with the excavator operator, focusing on aesthetic and structural integrity for subsequent layers.

Tools and materials

  • Excavator

What they say

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as fast oh i love it oh [Applause] what the what are you doing what's on so awesome look at the joint spaces on that thing holy crap you might want to just talk to her about that though alex she might want the joint spaces to put plants in not a straight top dude that looks not cool that looks perfect holy crap i love it that's just that some foresight in there that's nice damn pleasant surprise looks better than timmy's first wall i'm not hey i'm not joking you know you got to set a guy free at some point right yeah timmy built a bunch of smaller retaining walls and we got into this massive project it was way bigger than this whole hill it was about 15 feet tall and it was like 150 feet long so pretty massive project but it was out in the woods so you know it was along a walking trail we were creating this whole thing and i went out and he built the entire thing got it built up and went out and it had to be all tore down the whole thing like from the top to the entire bottom because instead of getting the the joint spaces right in the alignment right on the boulders he would have a little bit over on a boulder and it would be a lower boulder and you can't do that he like screwed up so you gotta ask timmy how he screwed up like on on a boulder like this instead of being flush well actually you need to push this one back a titch [Music] yup so can you imagine something like that though being 15 feet tall and having one and then maybe everything else looks good and then having one more just slightly off but you can't be slightly off so he i looked at him like tim you got to tear the whole thing down he's like no way and i'm like yeah and then i got the engineer out because i didn't want to spend two and a half weeks tearing it down and rebuilding it got the engineer out and even the engineer was like i agree we should start over again and that's why tim may be a little bit more technical now but this is amazing dude this is amazing freaking love it

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