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Old 09-30-2012, 07:07 PM
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its amazing differences of locations here in Marylandistan the developer would be paying someone to remove the rocks.
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Old 09-30-2012, 07:33 PM
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its amazing differences of locations here in Marylandistan the developer would be paying someone to remove the rocks.
Same here. We get paid to remove all the rocks from a site.
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Old 10-12-2012, 12:48 AM
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Been super busy.

Won a larger job this fall that will bring me through December for just the boulder walls, pushing some jobs into next year on top of other things we had for next year already.

Homeowners idea and fixing grade to stop water from rushing into his basement.







He;s going to install a fire pit eventually





Another little day project. Homeowner loved the walls on the site and was disappointed they didn't extend into her back yard.







Building it from the side and on a slope so I don't wreck the sod or grading or irrigation.



One side, she is going to have vegetable gardens above:















Hammered out a couple walls on the site while I was there to save some money on mobilization!





Another job. Digging out the pond and filling in a bunch of low spots. Also TOOK OUT a boulder wall. That was interesting







Tried grading that day.. too wet and got buried. My fault, so I let it dry out over the weekend.





Where a boulder wall was









Clearing out some tree lines in fields, Chris!!! I have a burn pile!



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Old 10-12-2012, 01:08 AM
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Spread some recycled on the pond site:





All done





Was picking rocks on a tree line. Old barbed-wire somehow wrapped itself around the hose for the top of the grapples cylinder and literally ripped it out. Pretty weird it didn't wreck the hose.





Adding onto a wall to make code so they don't need a railing.... wish I would have known this before. Took longer to move equipment and drive than to do the job.





Other wall I did the week before but didn't take a picture of.



Picking more rocks!









She needs a bath after that hose broke



Next project, wall is ~540' long and 10-13' tall a majority of the way.





180 is all clean again



Someone stole most of the sand I had staged... wonder who did that!







Started digging today





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Old 10-12-2012, 01:54 AM
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500'+ wall...You suck!
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Old 10-12-2012, 05:41 AM
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So the case 160 sit now?
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Old 10-12-2012, 02:30 PM
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The 160 has been doing a big block job for the last month or so
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Old 10-13-2012, 02:51 PM
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Didn't get a ton of rocks in place yesterday but I had 14 sidedump loads of 3, 4 and 5'ers delivered and staged.





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Old 10-13-2012, 06:31 PM
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You know you are dealing with serious boulders when a 'semi load' has 6-8 boulders for the load...
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Old 10-14-2012, 10:05 AM
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Advanced Wall Structures,

Great post. I have gone through most of it. Really like how your boulder walls look. I was wondering if you had any videos of you setting stones with the machine. I would be very interested in just watching the grapple in action.

Keep up the good work.
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