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Delivering and Installing Boulders for Retaining Wall

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What happens here

The dump trailer arrives with a fresh load of large boulders intended for the retaining wall. The operator uses the remote control to activate the hydraulic lift, raising the dump bed and carefully releasing the boulders. Some of the boulders tumble down, settling into prepared depressions in the soil. The mini-skid steer is then fitted with a set of pallet forks, which are used to pick up and transport the heavy boulders. Workers manually guide the boulders into their precise positions along the foundation, creating a sturdy and aesthetically pleasing retaining wall.

Goal: Construct a boulder retaining wall along the house foundation.

Tools and materials

  • Pallet Forks — Attachment for the mini-skid steer to handle boulders
  • Remote Control — Operating the dump trailer's hydraulic bed
  • Shovel — Fine-tuning boulder placement and filling gaps
  • Sure-Trac Dump Trailer Sure-Trac — Delivering large boulders
  • Dirt/Soil — Bedding and backfilling boulders
  • Large Boulders — Constructing the retaining wall

What they say

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right yeah even going uphill she's still dragging she's a tail dragger make sure your parking brakes off hey is your parking brake off did your parking brake off this time i think so i think i can't no you can leave it up we got ways to go just go forward a little bit you're fine just worried about dragging too much ripping it up drop her down we'll shovel it out did we lose the look yeah we'll shovel the rest out it's good okay yeah yeah that's good we'll just shovel it out if we didn't lose the license plate oh he's got some sand on my shoes now i think you can do it i have firm belief in you tim you can do it come on what was that was that the spider-man finger finger move that you had going there oh yeah you were doing like this sort of thing i didn't try to do that it was just that just natural like you're so athletically coordinated those boulders are hurt if you fall down on them but i think this is exactly what we need for the rest of this oh yeah that's probably fried all my brakes huh well if you drove with the parking brake on yeah she was she just didn't want to drive in him maybe the parking brake had gotten stuck a little bit or something because it's been acting like it just doesn't want to haul that load when it's got a load on it i don't know okay joy he's gonna drop this down just so you know what now when you have a irrigation system running they had to have the sprinklers on because it was too wet it's too wet coming out here on that hill in that yard did not have a sprinkler running on it yeah we had a dry summer but that don't count when they're irrigating it every day all right do you want to start working on the wall yeah i can start man throw me some up i got a couple bigger ones there's throw some dirt up there and then i got some bigger ones for the start and then kind of step them down okay in tomorrow's video we're going to conclude that conclude this three-part mini series where we break down this project we're going to cover the material cost we're going to calculate all of the labor costs we're also going to go over the equipment schedule meaning every piece of equipment what it costs us to use and then also calculate in overhead and then show you guys the profit margins and this is all meant to help you new guys out there learning the industry to dial in your numbers a little bit better but here's the thing if there's anything i missed or anything you guys want me to cover we've got more job videos coming down the pipeline…

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