Select Proper Boulder Sizing

looking at is we've got a decent four-foot Boulder laid the right way another Boulder that's kind of walked in in general boulders make an absolutely phenomenal building material they never suffer from weathering or erosion salt degradation has absolutely no impact on and the sheer weight of the boulders allows them to tolerate massive amounts of Earth movement without ever transmitting that through the retaining wall and into a state of utter failure that is when they're built the right way so let's start talking about how boulder retaining walls are typically built the wrong way you cannot build a retaining wall like that and I'm gonna look point go right down the point this Boulder right here specifically we got this nice four quarter blade the right way the depth is maximized into the slope but beneath it look at this thing it ends right here there's no depth that Boulder if it was to be used where it is needs to be rotated and laid into the bank this wall was built to maximize feet now here's a protip contractors will usually buy boulders on a price per pound but they will usually charge to install the boulders on a price per square foot what this means is big boulders cause big bucks but that doesn't always mean you get the most square footage out of those big boulders that's where the big issue comes in and that's a lot of big words now the first rule with boulders is bigger is better with this in mind contractors will