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Demolish Existing Retaining Walls

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This SHADY home builder cut corners

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What happens here

The project begins with the demolition of the existing, old retaining walls. This involves using heavy machinery like a Kubota SVL 75-2 skid steer and a Bobcat 331 excavator to efficiently remove concrete blocks and other debris. Workers also use a concrete cutting saw for precise cuts and shovels for manual clearing of the base area along the foundation. One existing wall (first wall) is removed, then after some block laying for the new wall, a second existing wall is also demolished.

Goal: Clear the area of old, damaged retaining walls.

Tools and materials

  • Bobcat 331 Excavator Bobcat — Excavating trenches and breaking up existing structures
  • Concrete Cutting Saw Husqvarna — Cutting existing concrete or masonry for cleaner demolition edges
  • Kubota SVL 75-2 Skid Steer Kubota — Demolishing walls, moving debris, and excavating soil
  • Safety Glasses — Eye protection from dust and debris
  • Safety Vest — Ensuring worker visibility on site
  • Shovel — Manual clearing of debris and dirt, leveling ground
  • Steel-Toed Boots — Foot protection from heavy objects and machinery
  • Work Gloves MaxiFlex — Hand protection during demolition and handling materials
  • Cinder block debris — Waste material from the old retaining walls, requiring disposal
  • Excavated dirt — Soil removed during excavation, to be reused or disposed of

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[Applause] leges there's one of them there's the other one [Music] [Applause] [Music] [Applause] [Music] all right so here's our next project sorry I didn't catch the demo and it was a pain in US everything was core filled uh cinder block pinned to a footing as well in here but uh the driveway originally curved in right here really kind of a weird angle to here so we're going to straighten it out here you can see our string line set up right there we'll build this wall straight here this wall over here we'll go out 5 ft steps will go right there then this wall will continue straight down to the edge of the driveway my concrete gu is going to come in here and pour a new concrete driveway right here at the end of the project and then we also have a uh a paer walkway going in over here so the steps will come this wall will be 5 fet off of here steps will come up right there then we'll have a paer walkway to their original stairs right there so got the invisible fence to watch out for right there he's got it staked off for back when they were putting stuckle on everything yeah SLE years ago I was living in a house that was turned at around 1890 so we were demoing our wall right and these little guys fell out there's one of them there's the other one and then the other two are tucked down in there well guys so I sacrificed the shirt put them in a pin box there and they are taking a trip up to the Wildlife Rehabilitation Center after work there cuz we've been watching for Mama and she is not looking like she's going to be coming back so they're going to go to the Wildlife Center just look at those little guys there's good contractors and bad contractors both then and now now as a good contractor it's pretty easy for me to tell when I'm following up on the work of another good contractor even if that was 60 80 years ago you can always tell when somebody put went the extra mile on a job but you can also tell when somebody skipped corners and there was a builder that I worked for in Minneapolis that made his living by skipping corners while he was Building Homes now I was his main dirt work contractor but I didn't know that he was one of these Shady contractors that like to cut Corners when I first started working for him it took me a little bit for me to realize just how bad he was and I'm going to share that story with you in today's video but let's check out what the boys got cooking on this job site [Music] w [Music] check it out one over there we got a fresh…

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