Filling dirt behind a retaining wall

[Music] [Music] you Oh the customer ordered three yards this body is seven yards water level so I'd say that's a healthy three [Music] [Music] [Music] alright I'm back on that job where I remove the trailer that was down in that spot there [Music] [Music] and while I was here I also regrab 'old this driveway and fixed this road [Music] that was a few months ago now I'm going to start at the beginning of the road here and walk down the whole thing to show you how it's been holding up a lot of people always seem to have very different opinions on how to do some of these jobs sometimes so that's why it's good to go back for me to go back and show you guys what I did and how it's been holding up after certain amounts of time so this driveway here this spot right here in particular this was a lot of potholes and it was standing water and there was mud here so walking through it now seeing zero puddles or mud or potholes is great especially since it's been raining very heavily lately we've had a few rainstorms where it's rained you know inches where a lot of things have been washing out and there's a lot of puddles and streams are overflowing so there's been a lot of rain for this time of year so if you haven't watched the video me fixing this road that's worth will watch all right this area right here was another one of the spots that was nothing but severe potholes and it still looks like it's pretty good you know there's really not a hole in it it's crown pretty well there was no drainage here so I dug this trench in on the right side and that looks like it's working pretty well there's a little puddle right there because it did just rain extremely heavy yesterday but you know even the spot that's damming it up is still a lot lower than the road so that whole trench is lower than the road and you can see the water had been running through there so that is doing what it's supposed to be doing [Music] right so the thing I'm here to do is over in this area let's go take a look at it so this nice retaining wall was just built and they were actually here building it as I was fixing the road and doing a trailer and I'm just here to fill in the backside of it with dirt so I guess I'll work from the top and just bring everything through here and just fill this up [Music] there's a nice old hand-cut piece of bluestone right here you can see these chisel marks in it alright so I guess I'll back my truck in through there and dump that pile of dirt right in this area and then I can use my tractor to spread it up you [Music] [Music] [Music] [Applause] [Applause] [Music] [Music] [Music] [Music] [Applause] [Music] [Applause] [Music] [Music] [Music] [Applause] [Music] all right so I'm all done here so this looks pretty nice it's a little weird that the people who built this wall didn't just finish it I don't know what the reason for that was but I think they did a lot of this by hand though so but being that it was so steep I ended up having to do a lot of hand work here anyway so I'm sure they could have taken care of it but I don't know either way it's done [Music] [Music] [Music] [Music]

Channel: Andrew Camarata

Views: 477,074

Rating: 4.9140339 out of 5

Keywords: ford tractor, dump truck, ford 1520, top soil, retaining wall

Id: U0jZA2NJ1YY

Length: 17min 23sec (1043 seconds)

Published: Sat Aug 11 2018