Retaining walls- SPOTTING short cuts & BAD work
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- เผยแพร่เมื่อ 27 พ.ค. 2021
- Job sites don't always go as planned BUT sometimes contractors DO BAD WORK & cut corners. How to spot red flags plus RAIN hits us & we find 2 walls buried instead of 1. We share how we handle road blocks and obstacles.
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This wall is absolutely a thing of beauty.
Much appreciated
Third time I've watched this... Third time I've ... LOST MY COFFEE at the "Master Baser" line. Knew it was coming.. Still cackled. Keep them coming. I'm watching this for influence. We just bought our first house, and 1/3 of the property is on a grade down 30 ft from the rest.
Want to build some small pads into the back at different levels for a fire pit, some walkways, etc and use the rest of the space. This is helping.
more to come on this series.
Deeper and wider at the base........ nice
Yep- thats the trick
I learned how to build big walls, just gabion and rip rap stones, working for railroad companies.
By watching your videos a lot of what I did at my old job, came to my memories.
No glue, no mortar but walls still stand for decades or centuries!!!
Gabion walls are incredible in my opinion.
Retaining wall block is labor intensive and archaic.
Gabions should be used as the required method
Nice one Stan 👍👍🏴🏴
Thanks Tony 👊
This series is awesome and is teaching us all alot about retaining walls. Thanks again stan
Glad you enjoy it!
Stan is the man
Walls looking awesome, Sam sure loves the Milwaukee tool......
Thank you! Much appreciated and happy Friday! Got any cool weekend plans!
Stan, I think you misspoke in one of the previo vids in this series regarding the versa lok wall blocks when you said you had never mentioned the reasons you used them before (not your exact wording) but I can tell ya I know you have. I have been watching your stuff since 2017 when I was Guido to your channel for a paver patio and have been hooked. This channel was the reason we went with versa lok wall blocks at my house. Yes they still work great and do what they are supposed to. Interesting stuff. I am tackling a patio in backyard with leftover 300 square of techo blok pavers right now, 9 inches of crusher run compacted in 2 to 4 inch lifts, one inch of masonry sand to bed em done with one inch metal pipes and screed rails, just like you have said.
Sounds like you have a pretty fun project ahead!
Man that wall looks awesome great job guys!
Thank you for another great video and all the hard work you put into them 👍
Thank yoiu! Have a. great weekend bro!
Even though our property is mostly level and will never need a retaining wall, it's always good to see the right way to do them. I always try to learn the right way to do things, even if I don't have to do them. I have so much un-used knowledge but much more useful wisdom by watching experts. Thanks for sharing the wisdom! I watch some professionals that are not experts and can spot their mistakes. Thank you for the video!
Keep them coming I'm enjoying learning about this wall system.
Awesome 👍
Thanks for the video. I like the raspberry lime spindrift best so far. I'll try some others once these are gone. Have a good holiday weekend.
Another entertaining and lesson learning video. I really like leaving the chains on the compactor to spin around in tight quarters. Great idea.
Glad you enjoyed it . Have a good weekend.👊
Love these retaining wall vids very interesting.👍👍👍
Glad you like them!
Stan, you are very knowledgeable and very good at explaining.
You have helped me and my landscaping crew so much.
Glad to help👍
Hi, just came across this , I’m from across the pond . awe inspiring of your professionalism and pride taken with every job , along with a great happy attitude , ur a credit to the construction industry in showing how it should be done , thanks for taking the time to share with us the insight of your company , stay safe and look forward to the next episode
This was awesome to read! Appreciate your support immensely 😊 👊
@@Dirtmonkey , ur so welcome and well deserved , been in the gas and oil industry for some 30 x years repairing and fixing boilers etc and useto watch other trades on site , then seeing their work after was sometimes shocking of how they bodged things , so when I came across your channel it was so refreshing seeing things being done with such care and professionalism . Did see another channel called D and J projects from the uk and also like ur goodself take a lot of pride in there work, hopefully u might enjoy that seeing how things compare between the USA and UK , have no association with them just thought u might like it , sorry I’m waffling , lol, thanks again , stay safe 👍👍
Looking great. Brilliant work and thanks for sharing this with us take care
Thank you! Cheers! & have an awesome weekend Hayden
@@Dirtmonkey You are welcome Stan and thank you and you too have a awesome weekend 👍🏻🍻
Nice blocks👌
Really appreciate your videos. Thank you for sharing your expertise.
Glad you like them!
Great job guys ...nice and clean very professional
Thanks Sam👊
@@Dirtmonkey your welcome
Looking good Stan! You and your crew are moving right along. I'll leave the puns out of this, despite that you set us up for them. 😆
Now I want to hear them😂👊. Have an awesome weekend!
Thanks for sharing video with us again,
Recently I found some really helpful tools for blocks and pavers you should check it up especially would help laying those blocks with excavator. I purchased clamp for big slabs E BL -980 & clamp for blocks and big pavers E BL-450. Really good tools.
I have sen them. I might try something like that down the road
Hey Stan just wanted to thank you for the advise to build a ramp to stack sand high. It worked great! I got a huge pile out of it. Great video! Love the videos!
Great to hear!
Great video as always!
Happy Memorial Day…God Bless ‘MURICA
Happy holidays!
Great series. More.
one more coming
Hey Stan. Enjoying the vids more and more every view I give you😉 lol but truly they’re interesting. Watching Alex develop into what he has is amazing. Sam as well
Thank you 👊 So awesome to hear I’ll let em know you said that
When you first mentioned masterbaser I misunderstood you and thought "Gee, I should apply for a job with that crew" but then I listened more closely and discovered, rats, I wasn't qualified after all...
You went from being OVER qualified to under qualified really fast?😂
Hey Stan. Guess who is going up to their cabin for the first time this year? I am and I’m super excited to freshen up my tractor skills and backhoe skills. Currently regrading part of a barn demolition that we started last year but didn’t finish burying the concrete pad and cinder blocks. We probably shouldn’t have buried them but we had no way of getting he concrete pad broken up so we just decided to bury it. And since the soil isn’t that great for grading it should make things interesting. Want to sent that kubota my way so it can have a friend? What are you doing this weekend? Have a great weekend Stan.
Burying blocks like that really isn't that bad. Its like burying rock in a way. Im heading north to shoot a grading video experimenting with a new MINI hydra bucket on my MINI loader. Not sure how this will go. I hope you have.a blast running tractors and backhoes! Sounds like we both are having fun this weekend!
In a previous video, you showed the importance of basing the first course a 1/4 bubble to the back, so the geogrid does not tip the wall forward. You may have covered this in a previous video, but how do you level the corners when you have a return? If the base on both sides is leaned back, how do they meet up?
Nice work, my Northern Brother!! I need a retaining wall built …… come on down!!
We try to do the best we can. Thanks for watching & Thanks for the Invite.
Stan I hope your day was amazing my day was awesome we had five guys for lunch and did a lot of shopping and I have two A’s and one P and then we go to red lobster tomorrow with my aunt and uncle and for dinner tonight we had Chinese because it started to rain and we were originally going to have hotdogs but unfortunately because it rained we couldn’t grill and to be honest grilling hotdogs is the way to go LOL.i hope your week went swell, your instagram posts are a sight to see lol. I was so glad to be a part of that live give away. You guys really went into detail about how to appropriately charge and stand firm, after i listened to your answer, i felt so much kore better bout giving a quote to a customer for mowing their lawns, and it just o happened that Spencer’s lawn are, they had a video last night and it was similar to what you guys had said. I was getting the information from masters of the trade. And i wanted to thank you. For no only answering g the question. But for being a good TH-cam, and above all a good friend. It’s gonna be aiming almost all emporia day weekend, old glory will be up and i will reflect on why we celebrate. Well Stan, i hope you, the crew, and the youtube family have a fun safe Memorial Day weekend. God bless go get em, your pal Alexander costa
You have the best comments. I love reading your stories and adventures. Have a great weekend Alexander. Your bud- Stan
ωραια δουλεια και ωραιο βιντεο!!!!!👍👍👍👌✌
Thanks- I think👍😃
Really nice to see. May we see a 100% finished site, please? Like with the grass and everything..Thank you.
Take care!
Love the videos
Thansk Ian👊
Hi I woch your videos everyday tell the team I said hi and I woch thor videos everyday I love you guys I love the video
I hope you have an awesome weekend! Have any fun plans?
I have a band to go to tomorrow and Sunday my ant Jen is coming down to see me and on Monday I have a prad to morch in
Looking good
Thanks 👍
Good Evening. How is the day treating you. Enjoy your Memorial Day weekend. Sparking ice Blue Raspberry today.
Coke zero vanilla flavor. Friday night special! Hope you have an awesome weekend!
12:30 - Since we have to do as-builts for several of the local municipalities and counties where we do engineering plans, lack of an air gap on the sump pump or downspout discharges is one of the items that I regularly demand corrected. That and for some reason people like putting window wells at grade rather than above it.
Also, out of curiosity, what kind of pitch did you put between the rear door and the top of the wall?
You can see the finish grade coming up in the last video. There you can see how we pitched the site.
Hey Stan! Hope your well! Keep up the great work! Stay Safe!
Thank- doing great here. Hows your week been going?
Stan, in reference to matching sections, make sure your using 4 or 5 different pallets of material for large walls so color differences are spread out. . As to core fill please take note of the block manufactures recommendations as to compacting the core fill, I know of a couple of them that require compaction of the cores. I like you prefer solid block and the bigger the better.
Yes- those are good tips with those blocks👊. have a great weekend
Yup Stan you need to get those boys a new mini-excavator with a couple different buckets and attachments.
yep- I agree
@@Dirtmonkey Don't take it as being picked on Stan I'm just a long time excavator operator.
There is a key component missing and that is lining the hole with geotec fabric that will prevent any mitigation from existing land
NO. we never use filter fabric behind a retaining wall UNLESS its to wrap the drainage zone ONLY IF that drainagae zone could be subjected to the high water table. Then you wrap just the drainage zone but often times extend that drainage zone to over 6-9 feet behind the wall.
OTHERWISE NEVER use filter fabric as it can cause hydrostatic hotspots behind your wall. That can lead to funneling which is not good. The mininum drainage requirement is 12" BUT Watch my videos and you'll see we commonly double to triple that. BUT NEVER DO WE USE FABRIC👊😃
Smart job👊
Thank you sir
Nice vid!
Thank you
Amazing video bro 👍
Thanks 🔥. Have an awesome weekend!
Good stuff, thanks.
Appreciate it Gary 😊
Looks like they followed MnDOT’s wall design. Good job, this will last a long time. Good care for the customer by doing it right.
This is not Mn DOT design. I would have to deepen the footing to beyond frost or 4 feet. embed a mininum of 2 feet of block- even if only 6" is showing(been there done that). I also need a higher density block- to withstand more severe frost cycles. MN/DOT walls are overly complicated. Im glad I do these.
@@Dirtmonkey I can send you the typical if you want?
And I also sometimes get aluminum screed board like a 10ft or 12ft and put it behind the wall block to keep it straight but that also depends on what type of block I'm using
What is the mesh looking material that's between each row of blocks? What purpose does it serve? Thanks for all the great info in these videos.
Hi Stan, I’m very much enjoying your channel, there’s a lot of information packed into these videos, I’m curious as to how you would approach putting a fence or hand rail on or close to a retaining wall to avoid placing a surcharge on the wall?
Designg he wall to handle the fence and Place sono tubes for the posts into the backfill as the wall is being built versus digging it in afterward
These videos have been very helpful. How do we know if the contractor is good or not? I have a small retaining wall I need replaced,the previous owner just built one with stones from the property and it is falling apart, I don't want to have to replace it again in a few years. I'm in RI.
Stan I enjoy watching your work!
One question I have is why don’t you use landscape fabric to separate the dirt and crushed stone?
I may be wrong but from my understanding, the fabric prevents the dirt from mixing with crushed stone, thus allowing better drainage.
Thanks
Stan almost done first wall of year always good idea to tarp area if going to rain or snow
for sure. Good tip!
@@Dirtmonkey this reply made me respect you so much as a new viewer! Such a common sight in this industry for people to think they know everything and feel insulted when someone else has another idea, glad to see someone who's not like that 😀
love it
glad you lik eit
raindrops keep falling on my head, and it hurts so good, hehehe.
but that doesn't mean my eyes will soon be turning red. hahaha
If the foundation/base is bad then nothing else is good no matter what you do.
Timber retaining walls look good, but no matter what you do to treat the wood it will eventually decompose and fall apart and if not immediately dealt with the dirt it is holding back will collapse. Personally, if you can afford it, I think a concrete retaining wall as retaining wall and timber as a facade for appearance would be ideal. That way when the timber eventually gets bad you can just strip it off the retaining wall and put new timber up. More expensive up front but will save a ton in the future.
or Boulders -they never rot😉
@@Dirtmonkey
True. But some people like the aesthetics of wood over boulders, concrete, or blocks. But as this video proves, wood,specially if in direct contact with soil, just does not have the durability to last like a properly done boulder, concrete, or block retaining wall; which could potentially last for centuries if not millennia.
So if you want a retaining wall that looks like wood and that will last a much longer time, a concrete retaining wall with a wood facade that can be replaced if necessary would be the cheaper way to go in the long term. Me, personally, I like wood, but I like my money more so I would go with the blocks. They are an extremely close second to wood and a lot better looking than concrete.
A little late to the partay but darn son, that is one beauitful wall. Who knew you could make an asthetically pleasing, fully supported and functional wall!
Go Dirt Monkey!
Much appreciated and Happy memorial day!
I love it…..
…..I said “masterbaser”
Thanks for clarifying
🤣😂
😁 you bet!
Have a great weekend
Thanks Bud! you too. Have any fun plans?
@@Dirtmonkey my daughter is graduating 🎓
Hey Stan how about a definitive guide on what fabrics go where and why . thanks for all the awesome content. How do you use fabric behind small boulders and also use geogrid ?
I can try to bring that into a future video.
@@Dirtmonkey If anybody can sort that out you can thanks again for all the great content .
You have a damn good crew. Those guys got a lot done in a short amount of time. Are you having trouble getting materials such as the blocks? It's been a nightmare for us
Yes. Getting materials is getting more difficult
Why do you use dirt behind your first row to set it? Why not gravel?
When you're back-filling the wall are you doing a layer of class 5 and then a layer of native soil, layer of class 5, layer of soil etc? If so, what is the advantage over just using class 5 the whole way up? Thanks!
the class 5 was just back fill material that was available. It was not imported as specific backfill. It was just on hand
All is great here! Missed you on Wednesdays video! (I would reply to my comment but I cant for some reason...)
I was late to the game on Wednesday. I worked a 15 hour day so I couldn't jump in on time.
Ruuts vs roots. Lol love the accent 🤣
😂 you betcha!
Really enjoying this series. Do you guys have a masterbaser joke jar for punishment making jokes about the job title?
If you ever seen blaine or tim make sure you give them a big compliment on being a master - baser lol
Hi Stan, do you guys ever run a wider bucket on the mini? The one you run seems tedious at times, but probably why your machine has 5k hours.
we have a little bigger bucket but nothing to impressive
Use a thin layer of half-dry concrete (1- 1 1/2")to lay the first block on top of the gravel, goes a lot faster and more accurate.
Hey Stan, is there a benefit to using the corrugated drain tile instead of a rigid perforated pipe? I've been doing commercial and residential excavation for 15 years and have only ever used sdr35 or sewer and drain pipe for drainage behind a wall and I'm curious to know if there is beneficial reason to use drain tile.
Filed flexibility. We have to be to able to alter the grade up and down and work around sometimes complex curves and corners. and heres the wildest part - that draintile is not needed. The way we buikld these doesn't require them. we put them in for sheer peace of mind to the customer and city.
Flexibility was my assumption, thank you for the speedy reply. On another note, your videos are fantastic, keep up the great work. My coworkers and I look forward to watching your videos everyday when we take lunch. Thank you for all that you do, and have a great memorial day weekend.
here to help
Thanks Nash. Hope you have a great weekend bud
What's you guys thoughts on a 1 piece solid concrete retaining walls ? A local company said it's the only way they do it in west virginia supposedly.
I figured out why your neighbors put the cameras up they're trying to learn how to do your job hahaha
They are making time lapse videos!
Maybe she really likes watching construction workers?😉
There was a summertime that's what I would have believed in go with no shirt
i would have gone commando and worn the loosest pants, give the neighbors a real show!
How does add soil over the base rock or towing the rock as you call it work? You videos are the only ones I see doing that.
Do you put more that one drain pipe in? If so what are the criteria for that?
I'm amazed by how that Milwaukee cuts railroad ties. My sawzalls would be on fire if I did that.
You should try the Milwaukee Torch Sam. I cut a skid steers cutting edge in half with one.
Speaking of renting walls there's one that I think blew out locally a while back and I think I still have some photos from it.
what kind of block was it made out of?
@@Dirtmonkey it was made out of some weird brick design, the shape is almost like an anchor, if you have an email Ill send you them if your interested!
The only thing i do different so far is I use a bigger level as I get longer down my wall so I keep a true number if you use the little one you lose it by a little bit
we also use a bigger level to check longer runs. You'll probably see that brought in more on a future video.
What are you’re thoughts on reversible compactors
I 😍 them. Especially on 400 lbs or heavier units
Very curious on how much $ a job like this went for? I have a very similar one
How many hours on the mini ex? I’m so interested in knowing thanks
I think 5,000?
Dirt on the the base front and back?? We have always used 3/4 or 1"
Where do you buy your shovel/ hard rake?
I have replaced old walls that were made out of original railroad ties soak in the creosote.... have you guys ever come across that
oh yeah. a lot around here. Expensive to get rid of
I'm confused, are you putting dirt layers on top of the drainage rock behind the wall? is that because your geogrid is only a couple feet back?
The top foot or so can be dirt so you can have grass or plants up to the back of the wall. There's landscape fabric to separate the soil from the rock
Do more videos with the t180 would like to see that get used more
ok
Why oh why can't I have you in my area to hire out for my projects? 😊
We always glue each layer down too when we do our walls. Any particular reason the guys didn’t glue that versalok stuff?
It gets pinned. no need for glue
@@Dirtmonkey thanks Stan have a good weekend dude
When I see the way you do a wall I wonder just how meany other contractors that the time to do it as good as you do .
Thanks for letting us film this project. Much appreciated🙏
Are using VERSA-LOK® stone here?
That wall is going to look great , is that shed going to stay there.
It is.
@@Dirtmonkey all I can picture is that shed going down the hill.
Why do you toe in the base with dirt instead of the 3/4 clear rocks?
Easier to walk and work on
@@Dirtmonkey thanks. And that amount of dirt doesn't effect the drainage I assume. Nice video.
Many municipalities require a fence if a retaining wall is over 4 ft tall of continuous block.
Yep- same in some around here
I have a house in your area that has a railroad tie retaining wall that is falling over. I got a quote for 2800 to dead man the wall or something like that. Have you heard of this? It looks like they plan to bury some kind of block in the yard to keep the wall from falling over by anchoring it. Is this worth the money? Is the price good? Let me know if you got time.
Maybe you could tie back the wall to keep it from falling over much more, but I don't think that'd be an actual solution to your problem. We tore out several railroad tie retaining walls to replace with block a couple of weeks ago, and the previous homeowners had block installed in front of the failing wall. It seemed like a very expensive bandaid, since nothing was done to prevent water pressure from pushing the wall out more. I don't see a retaining wall lasting without rock and drain tile behind it.
@@NickR.. Thank you for the reply. I am torn between just spending a little money now to keep it up until I can afford to fix it the right way or just waiting until it fails and replacing the whole thing.
At the very beginning of this job y'all said something about the neighbor was a weird one with setting up all the cameras pointed at y'all, has she said or tries anything?
More to come on that next video...
Do you build walls other than with versa lok?
Yep- boulders. Got a project coming out on that soon.
Why aren't you using that mini chain saw to cut those timbers?
it was 30 miles away
We Say Side by Side in the UK lol
Whats going on with the wall?
How can you use dirt to toe them in, won't that plug the base? Why not just use gravel?
We don't care if the base drains. Thats a nice by product of using that material but not the reason. The main reason we use 3/4 clear as base is pure strenght. Its simply the best materials you can use.
I wonder about this as well. Stan, is the wall weaker if its towed in by 3/4 behind the wall instead of dirt?
@@Dirtmonkey is the wall weaker in your opinion if its towed in by 3/4 behind the wall?
@@josephgroeneveld4989 probably have to ask on the next video, he only hangs around for an hour or so usually
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Glad you like it