I've enjoyed the series but would it be possible to show more of the digger and dumper working on future projects, maybe a tripod would help for the camera work. Nice hand pitching of the facing stone and fill for the gabions 👍
Beautiful example of Gabions.Nice work👍The part I wanted to see was your wire tie technique for tying them together,did you use alternating single and double loop.it was difficult to see with the vid speed up
Thanks very much for this series of videos. They are very useful because of the detail ; for example how to keep the level of the slope consistent. I wonder whether you might have considered putting some permeable membrane behind the gabions to slow down the infiltration of soil from the bank behind? Anyway, thanks a lot. Ian
hi Ian Thanks for the comment we did consider is yes but becasue we ended up putting alot of stone and clay back in to infill the back of the baskets we just left it out because the area slopped away from the baskets not much water will be working down through the soil to the baskets
Hello from the U.S. I liked your series as this introduced me to gabions even more. I will be building my entire fence in my backyard with gabions. Although, I had hoped you would go a little more into detail regarding the substrate and how much of the limestone foundation you used. Would it be possible (if you reply) to detail how much of the limestone (thickness you used( use metric as I prefer it. :-). Where I live there is a considerable amount of clay in the soil. What about any drainage around the walls. What type of material are the gabions made of? Will they rust? Any distributors you could offer insight on? Thanks again.
LordStanley hi there from the UK. I know I'm sorry I didn't get any more detail into the videos but I was on a time limit with the job to get it finished... I will be doing some more basket videos in the future.... the base was 150mm of limestone on top of a clay base so there will be no movement.... the drainage was created into the baskets and at the back and then connected into the land drains and away down the hill. I used a galfan coated basket and are said to last 100 years in river bank conditions. if you need anymore info feel free to reply
Anthony Mos Hi there. one basket is around £35 for 6 mesh sides and then helicoils are £1 each but I generally just use them on faces that are seen once the basket is complete and then tie wire for the remainder of the basket. the stone face would be around £40 a square meter. and back infill was free on this job as we used rubble but I can get stone infill from £15 a ton ( each baskets takes 1.5 ton roughly to fill so gives you an idea on size and amount of material and then when it comes to labour sometimes you can get 3 done a day or more depending if you use a machine to fill, how close materials are and many other factors. I hope this helps thanks
That stone is perfect walling stone. I don't understand why you didn't just use it to build a nice wall. Would have been much nicer and there wouldn't have been any cost for the baskets.
We only had enough stone for the face of the baskets. Also the entrance behind the wall is used for farm machinery and equipment meaning a drystone wall wasn't an option. Therefore baskets are the best option for low cost
@@wadsworthlandscaping4098 okay but if there was enough stone to face the baskets you would have had enough to face a wall the same size. The wall wouldn't have to be a dry stobe wall. It could have been a block wall faced with stone and laid with either cement or lime mortar. Anyway, it was the property owners choice I suppose but it seems weird to me.
@@davidwebb2318 a block wall would have been alot more expensive as you need concrete foundation then at 2 meters you would need a structural engineer to design the wall and then would need to be build where gabion are so much faster and easier.
@@wadsworthlandscaping4098 The foundation wouldn't ben very much and nobody would bother a structural engineer with a job like this. I gues the gabion basket solution is cheaper though. Just doesn't look so nice as a proper wall.
I've enjoyed the series but would it be possible to show more of the digger and dumper working on future projects, maybe a tripod would help for the camera work. Nice hand pitching of the facing stone and fill for the gabions 👍
Hi Bob. We do have some other videos with some digger work. And hopefully some future videos will have lots more included.
Beautiful example of Gabions.Nice work👍The part I wanted to see was your wire tie technique for tying them together,did you use alternating single and double loop.it was difficult to see with the vid speed up
Thanks very much for this series of videos. They are very useful because of the detail ; for example how to keep the level of the slope consistent.
I wonder whether you might have considered putting some permeable membrane behind the gabions to slow down the infiltration of soil from the bank behind?
Anyway, thanks a lot. Ian
hi Ian Thanks for the comment we did consider is yes but becasue we ended up putting alot of stone and clay back in to infill the back of the baskets we just left it out because the area slopped away from the baskets not much water will be working down through the soil to the baskets
Hello from the U.S. I liked your series as this introduced me to gabions even more. I will be building my entire fence in my backyard with gabions. Although, I had hoped you would go a little more into detail regarding the substrate and how much of the limestone foundation you used. Would it be possible (if you reply) to detail how much of the limestone (thickness you used( use metric as I prefer it. :-). Where I live there is a considerable amount of clay in the soil. What about any drainage around the walls. What type of material are the gabions made of? Will they rust? Any distributors you could offer insight on? Thanks again.
LordStanley hi there from the UK. I know I'm sorry I didn't get any more detail into the videos but I was on a time limit with the job to get it finished... I will be doing some more basket videos in the future.... the base was 150mm of limestone on top of a clay base so there will be no movement.... the drainage was created into the baskets and at the back and then connected into the land drains and away down the hill. I used a galfan coated basket and are said to last 100 years in river bank conditions. if you need anymore info feel free to reply
I can see a load of polypipe lying around - did you put any drainage behind the wall?
The background music....Who's the singer? Tried Shazam and it's not picking it up....Nice!
Hi thanks for the video . How much does it cost to build one of the Gabion baskets ? Thanks
Anthony Mos Hi there. one basket is around £35 for 6 mesh sides and then helicoils are £1 each but I generally just use them on faces that are seen once the basket is complete and then tie wire for the remainder of the basket. the stone face would be around £40 a square meter. and back infill was free on this job as we used rubble but I can get stone infill from £15 a ton ( each baskets takes 1.5 ton roughly to fill so gives you an idea on size and amount of material and then when it comes to labour sometimes you can get 3 done a day or more depending if you use a machine to fill, how close materials are and many other factors. I hope this helps thanks
Great help thanks a lot !
That stone is perfect walling stone. I don't understand why you didn't just use it to build a nice wall. Would have been much nicer and there wouldn't have been any cost for the baskets.
We only had enough stone for the face of the baskets. Also the entrance behind the wall is used for farm machinery and equipment meaning a drystone wall wasn't an option. Therefore baskets are the best option for low cost
@@wadsworthlandscaping4098 okay but if there was enough stone to face the baskets you would have had enough to face a wall the same size. The wall wouldn't have to be a dry stobe wall. It could have been a block wall faced with stone and laid with either cement or lime mortar. Anyway, it was the property owners choice I suppose but it seems weird to me.
@@davidwebb2318 a block wall would have been alot more expensive as you need concrete foundation then at 2 meters you would need a structural engineer to design the wall and then would need to be build where gabion are so much faster and easier.
@@wadsworthlandscaping4098 The foundation wouldn't ben very much and nobody would bother a structural engineer with a job like this. I gues the gabion basket solution is cheaper though. Just doesn't look so nice as a proper wall.