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Fence Removal and Rough Excavation

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Turning a Hill into a Flat(er) backyard pt/2

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What happens here

The first step in transforming the backyard is removing the existing chain-link fence. Sam uses a Milwaukee impact driver with various DeWalt bits to quickly unfasten the fence fabric from the posts. For fence posts that are concreted into the ground and connected to the house structure, extreme caution is exercised. Shovels and a pickaxe are used to carefully dig around these posts to free them without damaging the house's foundation or brick molding. Once the fence is removed, the skid steer begins the rough cut of the hill, pushing and moving the excavated soil to start flattening the sloped area, preparing it for the retaining wall.

Goal: Clear the fence and perform initial large-scale dirt removal for the retaining wall.

Tools and materials

  • DeWalt Bit Set DeWalt — Used with the impact driver for various fasteners
  • Milwaukee Impact Driver Milwaukee — Disassembling the fence components
  • Pickaxe — Breaking up compacted soil or small roots near fence posts
  • Shovels — Digging around fence posts and moving soil manually
  • Chain-link Fence Components — The fence structure being removed
  • Excavated Soil N/A — Soil moved during the rough cut

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now this fence is coming down and we're gonna be doing a wall along here where we shave this that's a big old hump right here there's some areas along there that we're gonna have to take down about six feet so it's gonna be a decent amount of dirt before anything can happen the fence has to come down and sam plans on hand disassembling as much as possible we can save the chain link but the posts are another story the posts come out easy except when they're connected to the house they've got to be careful that as they remove this it doesn't swing out and damage the foundation or that brick molding [Music] with the soil removed it comes out pretty easily the rough cut gets made for the retaining wall [Music] [Applause] [Music]

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