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Lay Subsequent Courses and Backfill

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Wall FAILURE about to hit house-Plus we pull a mean one! START to FINISH 4 k Wall build

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What happens here

The team continues laying subsequent courses of retaining wall blocks, often working in pairs for efficiency. One worker hands blocks, and the other places and levels them. After several courses are laid, the skid steer is used to carefully backfill the area behind the wall with soil, consolidating the structure. The backfilling is done incrementally to avoid placing too much pressure on the new wall. Compaction of the backfill is also performed using a plate compactor. The video shows the finished retaining wall with its stepped design, extending from under the porch and following the natural grade.

Goal: Complete the retaining wall structure and secure it with backfill.

Tools and materials

  • Level — Checking level of blocks
  • Plate Compactor — Compacting backfilled soil
  • Rake — Spreading backfill
  • Retaining Wall Blocks — Completing the wall courses
  • Rubber Mallet — Adjusting blocks for level
  • Skid Steer Loader ASV RT-75 Posi-Track — Backfilling with soil
  • Soil — Backfilling behind the retaining wall

What they say

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in I'll shut up now just came out with the personal air-conditioner leg on a belt right you wear like this long sleeve things you tape the sleeves around your hands in up and then it's like you're sure she Clips on the back here and it recirculates it's the whenever we're working on a project we try to avoid step downs if at all possible that's why you'll always see us when we start building a retaining wall from the lowest point and build upward because if you start from a higher point and have to build downward this is what you got to do and this one block will take longer than four or five regular blocks to base but you still got to get it right so on this project the reason we're ending up doing this step down is because it was very critical for us to make sure that we got the top of the retaining wall to fit snugly underneath that house that meant we had to start at the house and work outward if it we could have done it any other way we would up but we couldn't screw up that one measurement by the house and so we ended up doing a few step downs to compensate eight inches is sitting on the block it keeps your joints staggered yep this one is half-inch this one up with this one I'm gonna be the first one to admit our jobs take us longer but the attention to detail that Blaine's teaching Sam right now is why we won't get callbacks there's never a compromise in quality so I don't care if they take this longer so this isn't done yet they've got to fill in the space between the block they baste and the block that's on top of it with rock and get that level so they can slide the block over on top of that rock so that we can complete the step go [Music] [Applause] [Music] once the wall is built and all the drainage aggregate is in that's when we start grading and this site has a super challenging slope and thank goodness at least this is because I had no other piece of equipment that you handle it and you're gonna see that in just a

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