Advanced Wall Structures, Inc.

[Advanced Wall Structures]

Originally Posted by Jelinek61

Nice work, that PC400 has one heck of a huge sand bucket on it with that long stick.

Yeah it's a large bucket haha, that's how all the sewer crews around here are set up here. That PC400 handles the bucket fine even with the wet clay this site has.

Small half day walls I did Monday and Tuesday along with fixing the 160. These were built with the CX75 most of the way.





Not bad for being built from behind besides the bottom two rows as far as gaps go, especially for not checking them



Stretching the CX75 out





Working on the 160



The stack that controls the towtem functions



It's back up and running! Thank god.











Onto the next big wall:





Thrown down:



And together:





Small wall I built at the end of my reach so the city had their 3-1 slope 6 feet beyond the sidewalk. Took maybe 10 minutes, its not pretty but serves a purpose.



Sitting up about 4 feet from before:



Rental packer, I like this thing!

[Jelinek61]

How many walls are they having you build for that subdivision? I wonder how many rocks you'll use in all.......

[Advanced Wall Structures]

Originally Posted by Jelinek61

How many walls are they having you build for that subdivision? I wonder how many rocks you'll use in all.......

There are 23 walls in this part of the subdivision...32,000 square feet. I'm already 3700 square feet over what the plans said in the 10 walls I have completed. The engineering firm screwed up big time when designing this site. All the walls within the city right of way have to be moved out 4-8 feet to be in compliance. They don't figure for the 3 foot boulder thickness and the batter in the wall. Oooops. As for a boulder count I have no idea. I can go through all my receipts at the end of the year and figure out how many tons I went through and the square footage installed.

[stuvecorp]

I like the walls that are in random spots.

I was going to ask about the plasti-coat you did a while back?

[Advanced Wall Structures]

Originally Posted by stuvecorp

I like the walls that are in random spots.

I was going to ask about the plasti-coat you did a while back?

I was just bored and got a wild hair up my ass to try it.

Some randoms from this week, didn't take many.

I love swinging dirt in the 400, makes filling a lot faster than doing it with our Case.

[stuvecorp]

How long in to the winter can you build? If it's cut out can you keep building over though it may be frozen?

You must get a serious Christmas gift from your boulder supplier...

[Advanced Wall Structures]

Originally Posted by stuvecorp

How long in to the winter can you build? If it's cut out can you keep building over though it may be frozen?

You must get a serious Christmas gift from your boulder supplier...

Last year I went until December 17th.... this year it will probably be the same if not later.

Funny you say that, I don't think we ever have. He should though for how busy we keep him

[Advanced Wall Structures]

All packed in. I've been getting 99-100% compaction on this wall. Very happy about that because sometimes it's a struggle.

All backfilled and almost finished grading. Just need to trim some fabric.

[stuvecorp]

Looks good, on to the next wall? How much help do you have with you?

[Advanced Wall Structures]

Originally Posted by stuvecorp

Looks good, on to the next wall? How much help do you have with you?

I've got a little bit of this wall yet to do tomorrow and maybe Wednesday, it should go quicker now that I'm done doing the part with geo grid in it. I've got quite a bit of excavating to do with the PC400 again for the next wall. It is 300' down from this one and is around 4000 square feet as well. It's got 700 square yards of 8xt geogrid and 1500 square yards of 5xt all 16' back.

I usually don't have any help when it is a cut wall (build from the front with no grid) but if I have a ton of back filling and packing to do (fill wall) I have 2 buddies I dial up that own their own hardscaping and lawncare businesses and usually one can help me so I don't have to jump from machine to machine and grade with the excavator as I fill. I'm the only one brave (dumb) enough to pack a foot behind my wall with a 16,000 lb packer like it needs to be.

Usually it's just me though. I don't like having people around when I am setting boulders. A couple always go rolling no matter how hard I try to keep them contained. There was one that got big air and ended up in the wetland 30' into the cattails today.