Finished digging out the pad finally, it was around 500 yards or 75 loads of material moved. I rough graded the area and painted out where the wall is going. Also spend a little time talking about wall, how I’m going to dig the footing, how much clean rock will be behind the wall. Not as exciting as the work but wanted to go over some of the planning and numbers involved in these walls. Should be ready to start on it Monday. Thanks for watching! #EliteEarthworks #Takeuchi #retainingwall
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Damn your a Beast!!!! How much do you charge to do that Job?
G'day looking good mate.
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Looking forward to you installing the
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Nice video! Did you have any permitting issues ?
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Iโm glad youโre finally getting the drone out and using it. Itโll be great for this whole wall project
Beautiful work….
Is that dumped fill going to wash back out onto the road in heavy rain. Nice job on the pad by the way.
Next time a 30" bucket!!!
Nothing wrong with having a few extra feet of room to work with it easier to dig it to big then wish half way through it oh I wish I had a extra foot coming along really good going to be a nice pad when its done
Keep up the great videos
Whew! It just keeps going and going,,,,,, nice idea on the geo-grid. That should make a big difference. We have so much clay and frost here that retaining walls can be a pain in the a**! Timber, concrete, blocks, all have issues over time. The concrete decorative blocks have some really effective designs. The main part is exactly what you spoke of, the clean fill. We put weeping tile behind the walls to take the water away because the clay otherwise keeps it there and in winter the frost pushes and the wall starts to fail!
I went with the decorative cement blocks and a landscaping business that has been around for about 30 years. They did a weeping tile system into a dry well?? A pit about 6 ft deep and then 10 x 12 wide/long. Ish? Filled with clean 3โ crushed stone. The house was built in a bit of a swale and it is an issue. I finished the house after the original fella went broke, not my wisest idea,,,,,!! Itโs working out now and the $$ I saved went into some elaborate landscaping that fixes and masks the drainage issues. It looks fantastic and we have a waterfall and pond that we never thought was in the cards. Pond is only 60 x 80 in an irregular shape and, at most, 6 ft deep so we have to shut things down in the winter (ok the landscaping company does,, haha). It will freeze almost solid some winters here. 12 inches of ice today.
Anyways, it looks like a very interesting and somewhat familiar job for me to watch. You have already explained it in laymanโs terms better than the guys I hired! Haha. Thank you.
Good looking drone shots Brandon, never seems to be enough daylight this time of year!
Great video of your work.
Jealous of the dry dirt! I think the last time we had dry dirt and dust was early August ๐ฌ. Nice work!
Looking good. It will be neat to see the progress on this one.
Looking good. What will you build the wall out of? I would love to have all that fill. My place could use 100 times that. Im always asking people to bring dirt and stone in.
You should set up a screen plant and sell back the good stuff
I took a little chance and I โlikedโ this video before I was done watching it. I wanted to be number 200.
That's a slick project ! Nice work !
Did you say what the customer was parking there?
I bet the neighbors loved your spotlight blinking through their curtains every time you turned to load… LOL
Tomorrow youโll be glad you already spread the spoils piles.. I suspect they dropped a foot with all the rain.
Nice job buddy, you moved a fair amount of dirt with that little machine on this job, looks good, looking forward to the footers and the wall videos
my kind of guy who cares if it gets dark! looking good bro.
Got any tips for keeping areas flat over long distances? I always end up having waves in my pads or driveways and feel like I take too much time getting them out. Thanks!
Is this a house lot, if so they won't have much of a yard lol Looks good though!
Professional looking job Brandon. Dare I say, you made that Dirt look Perfect…oh wait, wrong channel. ๐
Nice video! What % tint do you have on the equipment? I have been debating putting it on my skidsteer and mini but worry about visibility on gloomy days.
Hola amigo felicidades como todo el tiempo muy buen trabajo perfecto y muy limpio๐๐
Sweet drone footage! Looks like quite the project! Looking forward to the rest of the videos on this! Thanks for sharing!
Excavator or skid steer for small demo jobs?
Who told you that crap info about footings and drain rock.
Paying for an engineer to do soils tests as well as providing a plan can save thousands not to mention if anything happened it can go back on the engineering firm, not you, if you provide evidence. Good luck with it and look into a good firm on the next one! Love the videos!
Ex: we did a 2800 square ft wall that was over 10โ tall and the specs called for 2โ of 57 clean stone! Lots of geo grid and geo textile! They also did compaction tests every 2 courses for our on site excavated soils to be re installed. We paid around 5k for a 60k job! Client didnโt blink an eye at that!
Why not use the skid? I see you use the mini many times that I think the skid would get the job done in half the time. Maybe itโs just personal preference.
Sounds like you need some grease