Dry Stacking, Backfilling, and Compaction

so if you look you'll see us dry stacking the wall and we can actually dry stack the wall about four courses before we're forced to backfill it and what we do is we can flip we put the grid down and then we stack stack stack and then we flip the grid up we pack pack pack put the grid down at the appropriate level then continue to pack until we get to our four courses before we wash rinse and repeat that same process over again that's a little trick we use to speed up the process so here's kind of a fun fact you'll see that we're installing drain tile into the retaining wall but if you ever drive by a retaining wall and you see the drain tile actually operating it means that that wall is in a state of failure they see on modular retaining walls like this they are a mortar-less system intentionally and we use a lot of drainage aggregate and you're going to see that in just a moment but the entire retaining wall is designed to allow water to flow freely right through the face of it so if you ever actually see the water being funneled or jetted out through the drain tile at the bottom it means whatever company installed that retaining wall didn't put enough drainage aggregate in or that drainage aggregate that may be in place is boogered up and not operating so either way if you've seen drayton operating in a modular retaining wall something is wrong that's a big red flag so on this project we ended up bringing in about 45 dump truck loads of structural fill soil and instead of showing you each and every load going in we just thought we'd show you what it looked like so you could get a gist of what we're using and that is a granular material with the clay binder in it which allows us to pack it up tight like concrete yeah so now now he's got to get in there and mix it all together so that we can get it to pack [Music] so more than one of you guys have asked me stan what do you think of the asv versus the cat versus the kubota and here's the breakdown we love the cab on the kubota hands down love that swing up door but the cat has buttery smooth controls but the asv when it comes to just sketchy slopes that's the machine that the guys go to so that right there is a really sketchy move there's zero tolerance when a skid loader is gonna fall over it'll tip over sideways but it'll also likely tip forward and as he's coming down the slope especially with weight in the bucket all of the weight of that machine is now transferring forward and when you're driving down…