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The Wall Saga: Putting it Together

Posted on June 14, 2017May 1, 2025 By stega

A few posts back I mentioned that once Agent Smith’s father–our excavator operator and general project manager–flew back home, there was an unforeseen hiccup with the wall project. The hiccup was that I–just when I needed to be at full strength to finish things off–fell ill with a cold and was stuck in bed for four days.

During that time, the wall was actually finally built. The blocks were laid in place, one by one. We rented a second, smaller telehandler to handle placing blocks at the south end. We purchased and had delivered a large amount of drainage cloth and 60 cubic yards of drainage gravel to be used behind the blocks.

I was so ill at this point, I only got out of bed when the delivery trucks were here so that I could sign the receipts.

Once the first row was laid out things went quickly; it only took the crew a few days to lay all the blocks into place. The bottom row was difficult, as placement required a lot of trial and error for each block–since they fit together, getting them just right was crucial. By the evening of November 14th, we almost had a finished wall.

Carefully placing the blocks
Carefully placing the blocks
In place
In place
Partial wall in place
Partial wall in place
Partial wall in place
Partial wall in place
Partial wall in place
Partial wall in place
Wall to be continued
Wall to be continued

The crew returned the day after these images were taken and placed the final blocks. After nine weeks, we had our replacement wall–almost.

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