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Initial Site Assessment and Planning

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WHY Retaining wall Engineers ARE ALL WRONG!!

What happens here

The video begins with the presenter discussing the plans for the day. He mentions that one team member is sick, leaving just him and Blaine to work on the project. He points out the already excavated area for the retaining wall, where an initial base layer of gravel and wire mesh has been installed. The primary task is to start backfilling the area using a mini excavator. The presenter briefly mentions using Felco 2 pruners for cutting roots in the trench.

Goal: Prepare for the day's work and confirm initial site setup.

Tools and materials

  • Felco 2 Pruners Felco — Cutting roots encountered during excavation or preparation
  • Mini Excavator — Backfilling the excavated area

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all right good morning everyone so back out on our site after a beautiful weekend um so it's kind of funny joey good lord that kid's a freaking tank so he shows you know shows up this morning obviously just sick as hell look man what'd you show up for right go home man i always show up just uh let's go go home dude go home you're sick so uh it's just gonna be me and blaine today hopefully joey's feeling better tomorrow um so i'm waiting for blaine to show up i am going to fire up the maniacs and just start keep backfilling here a little bit and then what is this going to build and backfill if anyone's looking for a recommendation on like on some pruners these would be the ones right here the falco's all these are the falco 2's the falco 3's are freaking sweet too they'll last forever they're a little bit more expensive but holy crap my dad gave me these when i was like nine um another thing to be aware of uh your packing if you're using one of these smaller plate packers this is a 250 pound plate packer and you'll see me and blaine doing them doing really short lifts about two and a half to three inches and that's because it'll only so say we did like a four inch lift it's not going to pack that whole four inches it'll just pack the top of it and it will reach a point where it won't pack anymore and it will be you know top couple inches that are packed and the bottom couple inches won't be packed so that's why we're doing it in shorter lifts takes a little bit longer but you're getting the actual complete compaction especially if you're using a 250 pound plate packer if you're using you know one of the big boys we could do a five six inch lifts but small packer small lips that's all you gotta remember

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