Introduction and Site Assessment

all right guys we got a jam-packed one today we've got a customer that has just nothing but a hill for a backyard and with two small children they need a solution so today what we're going to be doing is cutting out the hill installing a retaining wall flattening out the top flattening out the bottom reusing the soil that we excavated when we did the excavation on the cut for the retaining wall to build the backyard and then sodding it this is going to be a two-part mini-series so what are we waiting for let's just dive right into the day all right we have arrived it's gonna be a little bit before blaine's here apparently so uh while we're waiting we're gonna run through the cat there's my baby look at you why you would put a wrapper on a thing of grease i do not know bad idea blaine and sam run through the equipment before the start of every day while sam is greasing blaine is checking the oil and the front pins on the cat are notoriously sticky so sam's come up with his own maintenance routine for that all right this is uh this is going to be a fun one here's what we got going on so we are going to level out this top portion of yard here you're on a pretty good hill and i probably can't really tell in the video but it's a steep one so we're trying to like i said level off this top part of their yard for them so in order to do that we gotta take this whole hill down so that's about the level of this slab here so if you can see there's quite a bit of it that's gonna have to come down and it's got a pretty good kind of thing going to it so we're gonna get that all graded down push it down the hill kind of regrade that area there 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