Advanced Wall Structures, Inc.

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Hey everyone, new to the site and thought I would share some pictures I have taken over the past year or so. Haven't taken many but I'm trying to get better at it.

Little info about the company. My Dad started the company 21 years ago around the time I was born. It's focus was with commercial retaining walls as my neighbor invented the original Keystone retaining wall unit however many years ago it was now. Dad mostly built walls out in the mountains of Colorado but has installed walls in many many different states. Florida, Missouri, Colorado, Pennsylvania, Iowa, Wisconsin, Kentucky, Illinois that I know off the top of my head. About 10 years ago he had enough of flying out Sunday night to whichever state and flying back Friday night pretty much every week of the year so he decided to move the business back to Minnesota solely.

The last couple of years like with everyone have been pretty tough, but we have been extremely busy this year.

Anyways we have 3 guys and 2 crews. I am one crew (LOL) and I build boulder retaining walls. The machines I use are a Case CX75SR excavator with a rotobec clam and I use a Case 450CT for moving boulders and backfilling, grading, etc.

The other crew builds all the modular retaining walls whether its big block, keystone, versa-loc, etc.

Machines we have:

Case 85xt, Case CT450, Case CX160 Excavator, Case CX75SR Excavator, Bobcat T300, Schaeff mini excavator

Ford L9000 Dumptruck (dinosaur)
T50 tri-axle trailer
International 4400 with a DT466
T14 Trailer
2000 Ford F350 with 250k and still movin'

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Some pictures of a residential from last year:

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My truck:






Upper wall is mine, I can't take credit for the crappy lower wall :P

Built earlier this year, 2300 sq ft.

Cut for a 2700 sq ft wall, completed in 6 days.





From last week, I was working from below near a wetland buffer and thought I was on solid ground but it was all silted in and muck so I got buried. Wasn't too tough to get out though.

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Another residential from last year:

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Commercial Versa-Loc wall for Plymouth Library in Minnesota

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Some randoms I barely remember doing





The company that built this boulder wall didn't use filter fabric behind the wall so I had to take the whole thing down because of global failure of backfill. (It was washed out 12 feet back in some places.









After:



Don't worry, I trimmed up the fabric. haha

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Large Boulder.

A Cat 950G brought it over from the other side of the site. When I rolled it into his bucket the front tires sank down 2 feet

I drug it backwards with the 450 and set it in place as well. I'm guessing it weighed between 9 and 11 thousand pounds.

[wurkn with amish]

Decent work. the jobs are some big jobs.....

[Bru75]

I hope nobody falls outta their chair on that patio, long way to the bottom.

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Originally Posted by wurkn with amish

Decent work. the jobs are some big jobs.....

Off the top of my head the walls I've built have been 2300, 2700, 2090, 1490, 2190, 1860, 320, 270, 200, 120 square feet. My next wall is 347 feet long and 12 feet tall the entire length. I've installed approximately 13,000 this year and have another 37,000 sq ft under contract between this year and the next.

Originally Posted by Bru75

I hope nobody falls outta their chair on that patio, long way to the bottom.

The homeowner had a railing installed a couple days later, that was the day we finished and I snapped some pictures. I even stopped by to make sure he did.

By code anything over 4 feet needs a fence/railing and engineering here.