Today is the start of a different retaining wall on the same job site. We will use a similar method of building only with this one we don't have any bedrock to fasten it to.
Tom Roocroft in one of his smaller Volvos clears the are for a 2 car parking spot.
Once cleared Tom digs a 8" deep trench on the line we marked out for him using a string line and two survey markers for the property line.
A cool shot of Tom taking down a standing dead tree with his machine. And look, Mikey likes it!
A load of crushed rock is delivered for the parking spot and we line the bottom our trench with about 5"- 6" of it, pack it down and level it out.
Once the crush is packed down we set up the string line again and lined up the first 6"X6" We chose a straight 16' to be the first beam in our wall.
We are looking to make the wall 30' long. There is a root and some bedrock in the way so will have step the beams over as we build it up.
To die into the bedrock we need to make taper the beam at the end. For this I used the 10" circular saw.
As we get up to the 3rd row we are gonna install some dead man beams back into the dirt to stop the pressures of the crushed rock from pushing out the wall. Here Mike and Richard are digging a spot of the T Beam.
Placing the beams is tedious because it must be level with row of beams and be level on its own. We don't want the beam sticking up out of the crush because the wall is only 4 rows high.
Here is a shot of the T Beam in place. Again we have to use this method of dead man ties because there is no no bedrock to anchor to.
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