So it begins
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Radix2
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Must have been some vicious chain sawing going on !
Look at those rounds rolling to get away!
Looks like a great location.
Look at those rounds rolling to get away!
Looks like a great location.
MrBalll
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Lot of cutting up went on there.
Is that lone survivor there for shade or will it be coming down too?
Is that lone survivor there for shade or will it be coming down too?
maxpower_hd
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Is that a wild boar in the photo?
Disney
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I wonder how many threads on GJ have that same title?
I wish, the I wouldn't feel so bad shooting him. My Mother's dying wish was for me to take this 11 year old rot. He just won't die.
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BIG-BRO
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My side yard looks VERY similar this week !! Twelve trees came down over the weekend ! Cleaning up brush and logs. Working on excavation and concrete quotes. Hope to be starting a build thread soon !
Finally making progress.
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Bib Overalls
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Where are you located? Those nicely formed footings tell me you are not around here. I will say your stumps look a lot like our stumps but then again stumps are stumps. Looking forward to seeing this puppy go up.
bczygan
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What kind of horizontal and especially vertical steel reinforcing (Tied into the footings) do you have in that retaining wall?
If the answer is none, then when the fill is compacted, the walls could blow out or at least crack.
Bill
If the answer is none, then when the fill is compacted, the walls could blow out or at least crack.
Bill
bczygan
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Hope the OP comes back.
MrBalll
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Yeah; especially with a reinforcement update.
bczygan
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shocktech102
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I was thinking the same thing. "This isn't going to end well without reinforcements" was what I was saying to myself. Can't wait to see this.
-Matt
Outlander
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When he eats some loser skulking around your new garage filled with toys and tools you will love him!
My son just finished masonry course (now doing restauration course) so I am interested in seeing those walls get finished.
Thanks for posting!
Terrick down Under
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If you are really worried about it.......
Buy a cheap masonry drill and make an extension shaft so that it will drill a 6" deep hole thru the bottom plate down in the footings.
Then get a compressed air line down and blow out the holes.
To get the chemical adhesive into the hole get some stiff tubing (PVC) to same size as the outlet on the applicator gun. Fill the deepest hole first, then working your way up till you can do the shallowest hole last, each time the height reduces, cut a small amount off the tube so as not to waste it.
While you are filling holes with chemical, have a friend putting the prepared rods into position, remembering that the chemical starts to set in approx. 2 minutes and usually cures in about 8 hours, that's when you tension the rods down onto the bottom plate.
This will need planning and precision timing, but just being ready will help heaps!
You would have to do approx. every 3 feet for a basic hold, combining with what you already have.
JMHO.
Buy a cheap masonry drill and make an extension shaft so that it will drill a 6" deep hole thru the bottom plate down in the footings.
Then get a compressed air line down and blow out the holes.
To get the chemical adhesive into the hole get some stiff tubing (PVC) to same size as the outlet on the applicator gun. Fill the deepest hole first, then working your way up till you can do the shallowest hole last, each time the height reduces, cut a small amount off the tube so as not to waste it.
While you are filling holes with chemical, have a friend putting the prepared rods into position, remembering that the chemical starts to set in approx. 2 minutes and usually cures in about 8 hours, that's when you tension the rods down onto the bottom plate.
This will need planning and precision timing, but just being ready will help heaps!
You would have to do approx. every 3 feet for a basic hold, combining with what you already have.
JMHO.
Terrick down Under
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Or..............
You could drill a 2 inch hole where you have an open core, have a slightly bent rod ready to quickly jamb down thru the hole to the bottom of the core after you have filled it with fairly running high strength core fill concrete, (3/8" gravel, sand, cement), the rod can also help vibrate the concrete to fill the void properly reducing air pockets.
Then using a blocking piece over the hole from stud to stud to tighten down on.
This may be easier for you to do with only yourself.
JMHO
You could drill a 2 inch hole where you have an open core, have a slightly bent rod ready to quickly jamb down thru the hole to the bottom of the core after you have filled it with fairly running high strength core fill concrete, (3/8" gravel, sand, cement), the rod can also help vibrate the concrete to fill the void properly reducing air pockets.
Then using a blocking piece over the hole from stud to stud to tighten down on.
This may be easier for you to do with only yourself.
JMHO
Bib Overalls
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It looks to me like the first coarse or two of blocks will have fill on both sides. That should hold them in place on the footing.
That said, if I was the builder I would have used rebar pins embedded in the footing and and grout to anchor the wall.
That said, if I was the builder I would have used rebar pins embedded in the footing and and grout to anchor the wall.
Bib Overalls
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Agree.
