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The transit (laser to aid with setting grade lines) is set and excavation has begun...
...so where are we??
The Grand Canyon?
No, but close...this is the site of one of our largest retaining wall jobs to-date. Jordan and Dale are about to set the all-important FIRST BLOCK.
You can see the compacted base is set, and blocks are laid out, ready to be placed.
And so the Journey of A Thousand Block has begun; here you can see carefully laid-out reinforcement grid.
As wall construction begins, the crew works with over 6,000--yes 6,000--cubic yds of excavated material looming behind them.
Dale, Jordan, and Jim quickly get a handle on the project; as it has been said around here, if you get the base and base course set properly, the wall practically puts itself up, right?
One week into it, the wall is definitely not putting itself up, but it IS looking good.
This shot taken from the roof of the manufacturer's new addition illustrates the true scale of this project.
Mid-way through construction. The crew members are starting to see wall block when they sleep.
The large scope of this project does allow for one fun extra...large equipment to run.
The courses keep stacking up and up; here three courses await backfilling.
The crew is not dwarved quite as much as the wall nears completion...
...and it can be said--we're almost done.
Wall capping and final grading is underway.
View from the Top: The crew compacts material above the wall.
And it's finished. Right down to the left-behind sweatshirt.
Incredibly, 15 working days, one amazing, hard-working crew, and 7,000 wall block later, the wall stands tall at 485' long and 16' high in the middle.
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