| Well a few weeks ago, I ordered my stone and spent two weekends ago digging my trench for the base stone. My wall is going to be approximately 90 feet long and a foot and a half high. I have elevation changes over the length of my wall that are going to require some stepping in the wall.
The stone was delivered last Monday, all 14.5 tons of it... I didn't want to take a chance on having the truck rip up my drive way, so I had it all dumped up at the street. My wife and I spent about 8 hours over the weekend moving all the stone down to the build site.
You can see pictures
here
We are going to use the boulders that you see to break up the wall and to use as part of the elevation changes. We are going to backfill and eventually get flowering groundcover to fill in the area from the top of the hill down to the wall.
Let me know if you have any suggestions.
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Here is a link that might be useful: Pictures on webshots
| Well I got started on building the wall this weekend. My brother helped me place all the boulders in place and I built one of the wall sections. You can see the pictures thru the link below. |
Here is a link that might be useful: Retaining Wall pictures
| Well lost all day Saturday due to rain, but got back after it today. It is coming along a lot quicker than I expected. My thought on that is that I have a very large selection of rocks to work with so I don't have to spend a lot of time searching for the next one. |
Here is a link that might be useful: Album from this weekend
| Well progress is still being made. I actually haven't worked on the retaining wall for about two months now as I've started a walkways project instead of finishing the retaining wall project. Here are the latest pictures of the retaining wall. |
Here is a link that might be useful: May 2007 retaining wall pics
