Browse Forums Landscape & Garden Design Re: Boulder Retaining Wall - Cost effective? 4Nov 20, 2015 6:14 pm Our Build Here: viewtopic.php?f=31&t=74037&p=1255246#p1255246 Re: Boulder Retaining Wall - Cost effective? 9Dec 01, 2015 5:24 pm Hey bg100, Ours is only 600 - 800 mm high x 20 mts It is at the front of the house, on 10 acres so we have heaps of space. So I'm going to taper it back over 2 meters or so. The rocks won't be on top of each other more set into the ground a bit and will have a few small water wise plants amongst it. If you click on the link below next to our build here you will see the front of the house. My mates price wasn't so flash, I guess he still needs to pay his workers and feed the family! So I'm going to do it myself with my loader, will need to use smaller rocks though Rocks are HEAVY, 1 mt2 bluestone is 2700 kg - 2.7 ton. So I'll be limited to around 600mm2 sizes (600kg each), deliver for $55 ton and I'll get 24 ton to do the front I expect to have some left over too. "was thinking of the sort of boulders shown in Livpal5's picture above" hard to tell but some of those look to be 700 - 800 mm2. 926 - 1382kg Our Build Here: viewtopic.php?f=31&t=74037&p=1255246#p1255246 The last home I lived in didn't have a pool and when i went to sell it the agents were not happy, even telling me to put one in to sell the place. The agents weren't happy… 2 4257 Thank you again Simeon.. I will call my certifier for that. Have a good day 4 5197 Thanks for the insights, that makes perfect sense, and yeah, I will be leaning on the experience of the excavator operator entirely. 6 16160 |