Wall-a-versary It was just a year ago that we were working feverishly to replace the failed retaining wall built out of… Continue reading “Wall-a-versary”…
The Wall Saga: Addendum After spending over two months now detailing all the work that was put in to rebuilding our large retaining wall… Continue reading “The Wall Saga: Addendum”…
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… Continue reading “The Wall Saga: Finishing Touches”…
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… Continue reading “The Wall Saga: Putting it Together”…
The Wall Saga: Drainage One seemingly small but necessary step to completing the wall rebuild was the creation of proper drainage. We doubt this… Continue reading “The Wall Saga: Drainage”…
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… Continue reading “The Wall Saga: Block Unloading”…
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… Continue reading “The Wall Saga: Left Turn to Albuquerque”…
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… Continue reading “The Wall Saga: Footer In Place”…
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… Continue reading “The Wall Saga: Concrete Pumping Video”…
The Wall Saga: Pumping Day Once the forms were in place it was time to pump in the concrete. Not an easy task. Because… Continue reading “The Wall Saga: Pumping Day”…
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… Continue reading “The Wall Saga: Form Work”…
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… Continue reading “The Wall Saga: Unexpected Moment”…
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… Continue reading “The Wall Saga: 18 Wheelers and Inclines”…
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… Continue reading “The Wall Saga: Deliveries!”…
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… Continue reading “The Wall Saga: Trench Warfare”…
Aerial Excavation Video Towards the end of the wall project Agent Smith shot this video. It shows the magnitude of work that was… Continue reading “Aerial Excavation Video”…
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.… Continue reading “The Wall Saga: The 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… Continue reading “The Wall Saga: Cutting Progress”…