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You may find it useful to split your boulders, along their long axis, into quarters. This will create easily stackable triangular sections. You can use a 3/4" Hilti rock drill and feathers and wedges. It goes very fast.
LOTE;
You must not have any seismic forces in your area.
We typically use 75% of the wall height as grid embedment. Rock fitting is critical. I usually request one extra long rock for every 7 rocks, which will pin the two below, the two above and the two on either side. We put a swale to...
Does anyone here have experiance dealing with the Islands Trust (By Vancouver Island) prohibiting Erosion Protection on an ocean front property? They have a bylaw that prohibits structures within 7.5m of the waterline but erosion control is not defined as either a structure or not a structure in...
Is there any chance that the back of the house is on fill. with the crack marking the transition between undisturbed bearing soils and fill soils? Often houses built on a slope are founded on a balanced cut-fill operation.
