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Posted 19 September 2014 - 01:08 PM
It seems likely that it would be a bad idea to have rain water running down your new retaining wall and soaking the ground beneath it into soft mud so here's a collection of piping and connectors...
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...waiting to be installed in the trench below. Would like to see installation drawings of the drain layout!
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Blessed!
Posted 19 September 2014 - 04:54 PM
It seems things are getting done faster now...I hope to see buildings going in December. Great job as always dear.
Live, Love, Laughter
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Posted 20 September 2014 - 06:50 AM
Thanks...I'm enjoying watching how they develop the site roads and drainage. Lots left to do.
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Posted 22 September 2014 - 06:58 PM
Time to start setting the drain piping...
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And a load of gravel to lay the piping on...
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Posted 23 September 2014 - 10:47 AM
The trenches for the piping on the east end of the wall being covered with gravel.
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Not sure how far to the west the drain piping will be used but the space for wall construction has been cleared all the way.
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Posted 26 September 2014 - 04:44 PM
Things now getting underway for the foundation layers for the retaining wall. Rolls of mat material were rolled out and cut to length on the Cabela's pad..
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After precise work to get the elevation and level correct with the help of surveyor's transits, GPS and laser levelling the first base section is ready.
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The first mat is rolled out...
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A total of four were used in an overlapping pattern and tie wraps used to keep them in position...
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A load of the 4" and smaller material is dumped...
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Gravel is spread across the mats - looked like about a 6" lift.
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Then a smooth vibrating roller compacted the layer.
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And the second layer begins.
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More on Saturday
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And on Monday the area expands to 6 mats plus patches over the triangular gaps.
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Posted 30 September 2014 - 08:59 AM
On Tuesday they've gone to 7 mats and no patches.
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They continue to cut additional terraces as they move up the hill and I wonder if they'll use mats all the way up.
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Wasn't able to stay to see if more mats were added but there were only 4 mats down when they started spreading the 4" fill.
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Wednesday morning...full lift on the 4 mats, nearly ready for the roller.
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Posted 01 October 2014 - 02:13 PM
Seems there's been a change in plans...after spreading and rolling the fill on the 4 mats they backed off bringing more mats down and began moving dirt on the far left and also scraped off the near edge of the last lift.
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They installed drain piping in the trench at the far left, spread fill over the dirt and rolled it smooth then brought in longer mats to be arranged in an X pattern.
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Another lift was being spread when I left.
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Posted 02 October 2014 - 09:19 AM
4Pads+X...
The "New Improved Name For A Samsung Smartphone"...Oh, wait...
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Posted 02 October 2014 - 03:03 PM
They've begun using a lighter weight sheet material to line the trench, then a layer of small gravel, then the pipe, then cover the pipe with more gravel and then fold the sheet over that before covering the trench. More of the sheet alongside the trench for tomorrow.
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The far corner has not been filled during the past 3 lifts, not sure why.
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Posted 03 October 2014 - 08:40 AM
This time the 4th mat is placed on the next shelf to the right and a single mat on the far left.
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On the next lift they used no mats and still nothing going on in the corner.
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The rain arrived and they left Billy to finish rolling this lift.
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Then a lift with 3 mats and 1 on the left.
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Posted 07 October 2014 - 09:10 AM
Monday before the rains came...beginning the lift on two mats.
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Posted 07 October 2014 - 09:17 AM
Last year I got a good pic of a flight of Canadian Honkers circling above a much taller hill and I've begun seeing them migrating again this year. I've watched them circle down somewhere south of the Cabela's site and since it was too muddy for work today, I decided to go find where they were going.
There's a good sized pond in the Spring Lakes neighborhood so I parked there and waited...
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And a squirrel in a Black Walnut tree...
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Dang, they're noisy till the get settled down!
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Posted 08 October 2014 - 08:03 PM
Ok, time to head back east of the Honda shop...
Before and After and from inside...
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Yep, it was pretty messy...
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Posted 08 October 2014 - 08:05 PM
Back to the foundation for the retaining wall.
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Posted 09 October 2014 - 02:46 PM
Lewis is operating the dozer and this is how he keeps the lifts the right height; there's a laser light level transmitter mounted on a tripod on the bank...
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Which establishes a reference plane and that is sensed by the adjustable receiver mounted on the rod on the end of the dozer blade. THe receiver has Red-over-Green-over-Red signal lights which Lewis uses to know to raise or lower the blade as he moves the fill.
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(You don't wanna know how many pics I took to catch that Green light!)
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Posted 09 October 2014 - 02:51 PM
They finished installing the piping wrapped in the gravel filled blanket today.
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Two more shots of mats and fill...
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And spreading another lift just before the rains came.
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Posted 10 October 2014 - 07:24 AM
Much too muddy to park where I've been watching the wall foundation work, so I snuck into the breakdown lane on the freeway again.
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Posted 14 October 2014 - 02:18 PM
More from the breakdown lane (till the VADot truck ran me off!)...
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What's that up there?
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Well, it's the Bristol Sign folks unloading sections for a new sign! That's why they were digging that big pit up there.
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And two shots from the top of road down to the wall foundation...
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Posted 15 October 2014 - 07:02 PM
The company that built the retaining wall to the west of the Cabela's pad is back on site for the Lowes wall and the first delivery of pallets of block has arrived.
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and the first pallet was moved on down.
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A trailer full of pre-fab rebar for the foundation for the new sign...
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After dumping loads of clay on top of charges set in two spots near the Honda shop, Austin Powder finally ready for the shot...
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