1st Course is the hardest | Building a Retaining Wall

[@cabrini00]

I like the way you do your retaining walls

[@HomesteadingUncontained]

Me too, you don't have to be a mason to do this method..... just heavy labour.

[@ern48]

You two (& wiener dogs) are making good headway, well done. Typically, I screw short screws into the the sides of the form boards to locate the vertical rebar locations. Bend a short 90 leg on the ends to hook under one of the horizontal rebar and after the concrete has been screed off, drop in the verticals in and rotate them 90 degrees.

[@HomesteadingUncontained]

ah yes, I know what you mean. On our first wall (part of the garage) we tied them all in.... it near killed us. Good tip on this one.

[@briansweeney2291]

Looking great Ian and Julie 🤩

[@HomesteadingUncontained]

Cheers Brian 👍🏻

[@edwindegroot3235]

Well done again, love the explanation with it. Sounds again that you think things through 👌

[@HomesteadingUncontained]

Too much thinking sometimes - 🤣

[@edwindegroot3235]

@@HomesteadingUncontained 😂😂🤯😂😂

[@richardbodor3318]

I love that panoramic view at the start. Thank you for that. That retaining wall is looking smart. Cheers from the USA ♥

[@HomesteadingUncontained]

thanks Richard - trying to get some nice shots of the valley.

[@harryiv6107]

As always fantastic work. Those battery powered caulk guns are a life saver on your hands for sure!! Your masonry skills always impress you are making it look so easy now.

[@HomesteadingUncontained]

Thanks Harry, I am pleased I bought this tool, I will not go back to a hand one for sure.

[@AuburnElvis]

@@HomesteadingUncontained Yes. As an American, I say: never apologize for buying a fancy tool to do something mundane.

[@AuburnElvis]

Clamp-on palette forks! Who knew those even existed?! What a marvelous alternative to those giant ones that came with the machine.

[@HomesteadingUncontained]

I bought these for the tractor before I knew about the Skid Steer so thought I would give them a try - they seemed to work ok.

[@OurNewLand]

Great job, guys! It's coming along nicely!

[@HomesteadingUncontained]

Thank you - I am balancing the pain of these walls with the joy of drawing my house plans for the foundation phase.....😀

[@laurakelly9255]

All looks great,well done! Lidl sometimes sells a cordless air pump ,size of a small drill only.Brilliant for little jobs.

[@HomesteadingUncontained]

I am a Parkside fanatic...😬

[@chrisjudge31]

Great Progress

[@HomesteadingUncontained]

Cheers Chris 😀

[@trumphy911]

Great job and progress ⭐️

[@HomesteadingUncontained]

Thank you ☺️

[@MOAJackson-u9f]

Fantastic job to you both! 🤗. Looks awesome!

[@HomesteadingUncontained]

Thank you ☺️

[@garrygrant2827]

Hi Ian an julie . This new foundation and block wall on the house side is starting to look good slowly get back into the wall building. I liked the drone shot from down the field and looking back at house workshop /garage and all your plot gives a real view of everything where its all going . The shots from the drone of the panoramic area of the valley was nice as it shows a lot of where you live its really nice country side

[@HomesteadingUncontained]

It snowed a lot on the mountains but it is so hard to get it on camera - hoping this will be near tot he last wall we have to build....😬

[@linsteadpeck9288]

I noticed you using a framing square and I was wondering if you have ever tried the old… 3-4-5 or 6-8-10 triangle with the tape measure. Very handy for layout. Or my personal favourite. I like to use the trigonometry function of my construction master calculator…

[@HomesteadingUncontained]

We use the 3 - 4 -5 for layout but this was a small 90º for the corner blocks which only return 1 metre. I do like Pythagorus 📐

[@billyhill101]

Great job 👍

[@HomesteadingUncontained]

Cheers Billy 👍🏻

[@tonyestvik7969]

Good job!

[@HomesteadingUncontained]

Cheers Tony 👍🏻

[@liammcgothigan2094]

Hello ian an julie good job on on concrete

[@HomesteadingUncontained]

Cheers Liam 👍🏻

[@Mrdogface12]

Always look forward to your vlogs 👍

[@HomesteadingUncontained]

Thank you - we are trying to mix it up a little now....🤣

[@trevorpalmer1891]

Curcumin supplement for the arthritis a good quality!

[@HomesteadingUncontained]

I thin I will try anything at the moment, thanks ☺️

[@martinjames3950]

Surprised that you got much work done with the rain and cold this week iam not too far from you so get much the same weather

[@HomesteadingUncontained]

If we believed the weather report APPs we would not get out of bed. Nice today so we will get out there and try and finish it - where abouts are you then 😀

[@martinjames3950]

@@HomesteadingUncontained we are about 15 minutes from lannemazan

[@meme2287]

It's better to use running dimensions to avoid cumulative error.

[@HomesteadingUncontained]

It was sort of a rough spacing 🤣

[@ianmoone2359]

Respirator for friction cutting cement stone products - the dust causes silicosis - essentially lung cancer the same way that asbestos fibres does. My old man died from Oesophageal (throat) cancer & it’s not at all a nice way to die, take it from me. With your mortar, when you’re mixing it, add a capful of dish washing liquid to each mix. It aerates the mortar which makes tapping the blocks down to string level very easy, compared to no aeration. Also, sit each block in a bucket of water before you lay it onto the mortar bed, so that it’s saturated. If you lay the blocks dry, they soak the water out of the mortar making it hard & harder to tap the blocks down to string level. Hope that helps. 👍👍👍🇦🇺

[@HomesteadingUncontained]

Cheers for the advice - I know I need to breathing protection, I was trying to hold my breath 😬 - good tips not he mortar - I will do this for the next stage as it is not as deep a bed (I might even have to trim a couple of blocks)

[@christophercarpenter8031]

Hi Ian & Julie just a question why don’t you put the cement mixer over the hole that you’re going to mix? Cementing? Save you having to do all that you’re still partner in but we buckets sand gravel and much more handy for us

[@HomesteadingUncontained]

The sand and gravel is in the trailer which we can't get down the slope so it is easier to move the mixed concrete. I wish I could get it down there. 😀

[@whathasxgottodowithit3919.]

Good job, when will it start to warm up? like 20-21. Like any Block System it is a little slow setting up. however it moves along quite well when you get going.

[@HomesteadingUncontained]

It should be warming up now, but we have a cold spell then it will be wet in April - yes, the blocks will fly up now.

[@alan-sk7ky]

5:28 starboard track needs a bit of tension ?

[@HomesteadingUncontained]

You are totally right - it came off while I was working at my son's house - I will get them greased up before it goes out again. 👍🏻

[@rjung_ch]

👍💪✌

[@HomesteadingUncontained]

Cheers Robert 👍🏻

[@TAMBROWN]

Turmeric good for arthritis

[@HomesteadingUncontained]

Cheers Tam, this getting old lark is not good for you 🤣

[@simonmiddleton4977]

I’ve got to ask why you didn’t have the mixer on the grass even if you had to put it on a board as you could have tipped straight from the mixer into your forms? Say all that back and forth

[@HomesteadingUncontained]

Our main aggregate is in the trailer which we can't get down there. So it is either the Skid with the concrete or Julie with 6 buckets of sand & gravel..... I try and treat her right 🤣

[@Anders_HeymSR30]

With all that cement dust and block cutting, a respirator would not be a luxury

[@williamfenner9915]

The concrete doesn't get to full cured in 24 hours unless you have used a special type of concrete.

[@HomesteadingUncontained]

I do keep meaning to get a proper one. But the wind was in a good direction 😬

[@HomesteadingUncontained]

I leave it a few days at least - the one I was drilling into was 1 week and it was tough.

[@williamfenner9915]

The concrete doesn't completely cure in 24 hours.

[@HomesteadingUncontained]

I always leave it a few days - it was pretty tough after a week.

[@williamfenner9915]

It will be fine. You not putting a lot of load on it right now. Typically it will take up to 30 days to get fully cured to get maximum strength.

[@mickducati1947]

Hi folk`s job`s looking good 👌😊

[@HomesteadingUncontained]

Cheers Mick 👍🏻

[@georgewest2096]

[@HomesteadingUncontained]

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