Curved Gabions: How We Make Them at Tonnesen

Bill Tonnesen
Landscape Architect
www.TonnesenGabions.com
www.BillTonnesen.com

[@cingham8947]

This was an amazing video been looking at gabion videos now for six months this should have been at the top

[@chriscardwell3495]

Great video. Realized there were some less appealing aspects about *one* company you mentioned. Its a great pity you don't sell to DIY enthusiast in the UK.

[@DMills-un1tl]

You have an amazing and artful home there in Tempe. I live in a Gilbert track home but want to put gabions on my Scottsdale horse property. Will have to check out your product more seriously when I get closer to the project.

[@dontaylor2910]

nice work

[@Meglenger]

I know this is decorative stone you used "For looks" as much for strength. But in theory what if you used broken concrete and covered the steel with mortar would it have equal to or greater strength as solid brick constructed walls? Like solid 8"x16" wall construction? Just curious. Seems like the wire would act as rebar making everything really strong. Really curious if perhaps even in ground pool walls could be constructed this way to save money? Would need a liner probably but just some ideas that's been floating around my head lol

[@wummerG]

Wish you were in Melbourne Australia

[@gailanneM]

incredible. who can you recommend in Chelan, eastern WA?

[@YUNGGOTTIMUSIC]

Can you build a two story house out of gabion and cement?

[@SigningWithTheByrds]

Do you work in Texas?

[@mibberz1]

both urls are gone?

[@markelafrantzi4668]

welds rust

[@sf9359]

Besides welding, pig-tail and lacing, what is the 4th method?

[@taalamum]

Hog ring s

[@yawjunior]

Run into this video when researching into options to build a low cost boundary wall in a remote area less than an hour away from a national forest. Now I know not to vlog it just in case 😅

[@mibberz1]

2.5 gauge = how many mm?

[@Melicoy]

i didnt understand the last part but ok !

[@ram1brn]

the guy in the UK video stole the picture of the basket being re-enforced while being filled. it was his back yard in the picture

[@lanialost1320]

Well done sir!! This video should be the ONLY one on youtube for the correct way to make gabions! The others need the tab Comedy. When I saw those disgusting so-called gabions with flimsy materials, and even bigger-joke connectors, I realized that the only right way was to make custom forms from heavy gauge wire, and that the whole structure needed to be welded!! And I'm just a homemaker.

[@ajaysalu3118]

Your product is excellent. You bashed south African guys for using lacing wire method and yet you used it in your product saying another name (pigtail method) I don't get the logic ☺

[@ram1brn]

a pigtail and lacing wire are two different things . lacing wire is literally any wire laced in . the pig tails are a formed wire akin to chain link and is just screwed down . on the ones we did we used aircraft cable and cable clamps

[@funnywolffarm]

Not sure what I just watched. Was this an advertisement? Were you making fun of some random person on YT? No information was shared, no new ideas expressed. Very confused.

[@girlscribe2845]

It was a great video until.... I couldn't focus on the content after hearing the smug colonialist insults against men who were working with skill and dignity.

[@danielcoetzee5793]

Oh, you are so smug and full of "IT"....! You are a business venture and have been doing it for over 20 years. Your clients are probably huge corporations with huge budgets and wealthy people with pockets full of money to hire landscapers and "Architects". You don't cater for the D.I.Y. markets and the young home owners who's just starting out with huge mortgages. These people cannot afford to pay for your "superior" product with all your spot welding and ticker gauges and trained experienced staff . They just look for some help to DO IT THEMSELVES. If everybody had the money they would all be driving Rolls Royces and hire chauffeurs (and architects). You are old and established and have been raking in the money for many years.....! So please don't compare your back yard to a new home owner who've just bought a mess which he wants to make respectable. If you want to make a video about making rock gabions, then by all means do so. No need to trash other people's efforts who've gone before you when you admit that you didn't know how to make a video and looked online to see what others did to give you clues. Also, it makes a huge difference as to what these gabions are used for. If it is for decorative purposes and to make a statements and to show off at corporate head quarters or whether it is just out in the wild or on farmsteads to prevent or stop soil erosion.....! But you are well educated and should know the difference....! And, oh yes, we have other uses for stones in South Africa....and we are quite accomplished and accurate with that (in case you want to continue throwing your stones our way....! Then we will show you HOW TO DO IT! Just visit the Zimbabwe ruins or Google it to see how stone walls are built without steel cages and educate yourself...!

[@5starCA]

I live in Sedona and have seen his project. It’s excellent. Almost all Gabion’s I’ve seen look like garbage. He has earned his pride in his work, and I didn’t find him smug. I’m a homeowner and have been planning to invest a little to mimic his methods.

[@krisallen100]

your attitude and smugness in this video is deeply uncomfortable