Retaining wall BASE failure

#retainingwall #fail

[@chrishodges8246]

Nice to see Sam and some project videos again. I was beginning to think Sam was no longer working with you. You need to get back to more of the project videos. You've done some nice work around your house and the lake house but it gets old always seeing that stuff.

[@Onhereforfun85nodrama]

Yes Sam is back at. Need more Sam

[@scottrobert2044]

I could not agree more!!! I miss Sam’s videos!

[@Dirtmonkey]

Gotchu!

[@toddvillano7994]

That was a great educational video. This is a great example of what I love watching on this channel

[@Dirtmonkey]

Love to hear it thanks bud

[@kurtdietrich5421]

Experience is a good teacher. Your engineering is spot on!

[@Dirtmonkey]

True that

[@jasonlavery6449]

Hey hey good to see you all in good health. Saw the dump truck in south St Paul. July 24 2024. Hope you all have a great year.

[@Dirtmonkey]

Haha nice 👍

[@nick_stag]

yes man thank god Sam is back he is the man

[@Dirtmonkey]

👍👍

[@Highlos]

Stan you got a great crew would love to see videos of the rest

[@Dirtmonkey]

You bet

[@BrianWeber-gt4ho]

Sam in 2 videos in a row!

[@josephrottina1901]

Nice work brother.👍🏻🇺🇸🇺🇸🇺🇸

[@Dirtmonkey]

Thanks man!

[@CZAnthonyX]

It's always interesting to me to drive around town and see walls failing. Makes me wonder who built em 😂

[@Dirtmonkey]

Once you start seeing them it’s impossible to stop

[@adamrogers4706]

Tim in the ditch, shovel in hand, with the low man shows he is invested and leading the job.

[@billyduffany3387]

Very informative and the job looks great.

[@Dirtmonkey]

Glad you think so!

[@tbix1963]

Thanks for sharing your thoughts, ideas and videos. Interesting project. Reminds me of a video DP did, was visiting a contractor in the south east US and was doing soil work, preparing a swamp to be a housing development I think. They were mixing Portland cement into the existing soil if I’m remembering correctly. Definitely would not want one of the houses built there. But how would you know? Wishing you and your family the best.

[@jeffc6832]

The septic cleanouts/riser pipes right in line with that septic line should've been a good clue for the guys. Hopefully they will remember that for future jobs. 🤞

[@FordTruck611]

They are surprised by the sewer pipe when the cleanout is sticking out of the ground right next to them?? Also in my opinion the wall should have been behind the pipe. If that pipe ever needs to be replaced that whole wall will need to get ripped down going in front of it.

[@francisdelaney2228]

Thank you Stan for the class!!!

[@Dirtmonkey]

👊

[@TrumpAmerica-2024]

keep movin', keep groovin' and keep on pimpin'

[@Dirtmonkey]

Wise words 😂👍

[@TrumpAmerica-2024]

@@Dirtmonkey words from Lawn Stars

[@Kushert]

Hey Stan,...appreciate the videos. Take care, my brother.

[@Dirtmonkey]

Thanks man & you too

[@user-kr5nh6pw4x]

Was installing a parking spot for a RV at someone's home ran into the same Jello waterbed situation. so they called out a engineer on how to deal with that and that rock that you show at the end of your video looks like granite rock. Will the same size of rock that engineer said we needed to throw that in the excavated area we were working and using a wacker we just kept whacking that material down until it became a hard surface where we got feedback from the wacker can feel compaction.

[@mattkasper9789]

I have a question, I’ve watched a bunch of your videos on the standard block walls you build. You say no filter fabric behind the block but what keeps the silt from plugging the stone and French drain pipe behind the wall. I would think that eventually having the silt getting into the stone it would eventually make its way into the drain pipe and have a plugged up drain pipe.

[@EddieSchirmer]

i have a dry stack slate wall, which is essentially a retaining wall itself. the last time we fixed it we only used regular stone, and no soil compaction and no "geo-grid" so, my question is, what geo-grid do you use, and what brand/site/company would you recommend getting some from?

[@achristofk]

I got a question for Stan. Or maybe some of his crew far down, does the soil heat up in Minnesota? Where is the line where it's way?Colder versus like, does it heat up below four feet or does four feet down?Is that all the warm air gets

[@dmlandscapedesignllcatlant8093]

Changed my logo but still us have a great weekend Stan

[@robertvannicolo4435]

Stan seems like a large staircase to nowhere it sucks when you hit bad soils like that did a patio ended up with 2ft of compacted stone under patio to make it right

[@probablynot1368]

I think that gutter downspout was the culprit in creating the soft pudding soil that needed correction.

[@drosdikmr7]

OMG the slope in that bucket would drive me crazy! Was it missing a bolt in the back plate or are the bushings that worn?

[@Highlos]

I hear what you’re saying would love to see them walls to date

[@MikeWeese-ej9ty]

Everybody sees that downspout in the background,right.did you remedy that.???

[@adambuxton6644]

Out all skid steer you own what’s ur crew’s favorite one to take on job sites

[@Dirtmonkey]

Really depends on the job!

[@paulnelson7384]

Have you ever used high density foam to bridge poor soils?

[@ajcossuto3969]

Did you ever fix that pipe on the gutter ?

[@staceymay2655]

Now i know the Monkey"s to hire! IDAHO said good dirt.. Lovyachannel

[@Dirtmonkey]

Appreciate it!

[@nashcobb3056]

here to help

[@ojmcbaggins]

So many garbage stucco jobs over wood. The builders all got sued around here and everyone is remediating

[@BrianWeber-gt4ho]

Licensed or unlicensed??

[@ojmcbaggins]

@BrianWeber-gt4ho licensed. Been like this for about 20 years.

[@mjboy8790]

Who’s fucking clapped out excavator is that, tell me it’s not yours. Someone doesn’t know how to maintain equipment.

[@marketads1]

What an unattractive house and backyard. Add some mosquitoes and….ruuuunnnnn!!

[@ijtoyosi]

At what point do you just pour a concrete footing

[@paulnelson7384]

You can pour a low yield 1500 psi pad but people tend to forget the modular retaining walls are designed to move yet overcome the loading on top of the wall. If the surcharge over comes the toe of the wall then wall failure happens, it's the rotation that you have to overcome. A good base, select fill and proper geogrid with proper drainage to keep water out of the that rotational area.

[@jeffc6832]

Almost never wherever there are freezing temperatures. Excavating and placing a footing below frost depth is very expensive. Soil correction is cheaper and better in most cases. Depending on wall height and how deep the bad soils go, micro piles or rammed aggregate piers are sometimes used (generally not in a residential situation unless they have a lot of money to spend).