Wall-a-versary
It was just a year ago that we were working feverishly to replace the failed retaining wall built out of…
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The Wall Saga: Addendum
After spending over two months now detailing all the work that was put in to rebuilding our large retaining wall…
The Wall Saga: Finishing Touches
On November 17th of 2015 the finishing touches were completed to the replacement retaining wall. This included moving earth up…
The Wall Saga: Putting it Together
Regular readers will know that a few posts back I mentioned that once Agent Smith’s father, our excavator operator and…
The Wall Saga: Drainage
One seemingly small but necessary step to completing the wall rebuild was the creation of proper drainage. We doubt this…
The Wall Saga: Block Unloading
We ended up purchasing 96 blocks. Some of them are shown in these images. Since the 18 wheelers bringing up the…
The Wall Saga: Left Turn to Albuquerque
This is why I was extremely happy when I got both Apple and Google Maps to update their data for…
The Wall Saga: Footer In Place
Once the concrete was poured it was time to allow it to cure a bit. We continued to unload shipments…
The Wall Saga: Concrete Pumping Video
Carrying on from the last post, here is a video with lots of annotations/subtitles to show and explain what was…
The Wall Saga: Pumping Day
Once the forms were in place it was time to pump in the concrete. Not an easy task. Because…
The Wall Saga: Form Work
With block deliveries trickling in–after the unload fiasco mentioned in last week’s post we ended up getting just one truck…
The Wall Saga: Unexpected Moment
Here’s a video of some of the unloading mentioned in the last post. It gives you good idea of how…
The Wall Saga: 18 Wheelers and Inclines
To rebuild the wall we ended up purchasing large 6’x6’x2′ blocks from Granite Rock–which, along with United Rentals and All…
The Wall Saga: Deliveries!
During the wall project, in addition to an excavator (although in this case we ended up using four excavators as the first…
The Wall Saga: Trench Warfare
While the warfare was really only against the pocket gophers that are endemic up here, we did manage to win…
Aerial Excavation Video
Towards the end of the wall project Agent Smith shot this video. It shows the magnitude of work that was…
The Wall Saga: The Trench
Once our driver started working it was a matter of a couple of days and we had an open trench.…
The Wall Saga: Cutting Progress
As part of the wall project we had to do some preliminary cutting work. In addition to the palm trees…