I’m a general contractor in the San Diego, California area, looking to inform people of the new building techniques and ways to be sustainable and efficient. I’ve been doing construction for 36+ years, started while I was in high school. It’s super strange to think building hasn’t evolved in all those years, it has, just the adoption of these changes are crazy slow. Hopefully you can see some things that will help you build better.
The layout was done by Dirtlocker - at the time you would just enter in your length and width and it would calculate the amount of dirtlockers needed. It was also calculated by using the interlocking system, however, since then Dirtlocker has reached out to me telling me that interlocking is no longer recommended.
Monumental Workx did an excellent job with the tinting on my Cybertruck, but it amplified the glare from the white dash in the mirrors. To fix this, I went back to have them wrap the top part of the white dash in matte black, which matched the door trim and eliminated the reflection problem. 😎👍
Thank you, great video. I can see you are a TOOL guy, buying the best ones on the market, I am pretty the same. I moved from Romania and I will start a handyman business, in the Pnw area. Not being used to wear a tool belt, but needed one, is just a pain to have your hand tools all over the place, on the floor, on the working table, on the table saw etc. I just ordered the tempo belt, to address that, I’m pretty excited for it, but not being able to framer, I just ordered a wrangell 2.0 pouch with the hammer holster, for my right side and I got a db sax, for nails, screws or water bottle. Great setup Sir, and a very beautiful present for yourself.
We have a large Miele induction cooktop that has been in service for less than two years. When it was delivered brand new, one of the stations was not working. A factory service technician the next week and replaced to faulty station. He stated that he had done a similar repair two weeks before on a similar unit. Does not say about Miele's quality control at the factory. The cooktop worked well until this evening when it went into demo mode and we cannot get it out of demo mode. We could not use the cooktop to cook dinner tonight. So tomorrow I will have to call Miele and arrange a service call, for which I might have to pay for. In addition, we noticed that the enamel in our Miele oven is not holding up well, with small lines developing in the outer layer of the enamel.
@@Moormores yes, I’m trying to get sponsorship now. Monumental Workx’s is offering to wrap it for advertising, which is great since the price of the truck was a stretch for us to afford. Fingers crossed.
@@boatster779 I’m sorry if the one you bought isn’t working. I know a few folks who purchased the cybertruck and it’s been fantastic. Perhaps you should take yours in for service if you’re having issues.
@@russellheath7587 it was a huge sacrifice for us to get the truck (money wise) as a general contractor I wanted to pollute the environment less. Mission accomplished. We are very proud of our choice. We don’t preach to others, but we are doing our part for everyone to breathe clean air, especially our grandkids. You’re our first negative comment (I’m sure it won’t be our last).I support your opinion and whatever choices you make for yourself, Just curious why you think the Cybertruck is a failure?
One thing I recommend to folks is to use native prairie grasses on their steep slopes. If you plant them in rows, you get a natural terracing effect that because their deep-rooting nature works overtime to keep the soil in place. Switch Grass is attractive and comes in many cultivars. There's also Indian grass, Big Bluestem, Little Bluestem, Prairie Dropseed, Cone Flower, Lead Plant, Compass Plant.... a whole host of fun grasses and wildflowers that you can use to maximize the strength of the ground. Even with the Dirt Locker system, you should still be using the native grasses and wildflowers because their deep root structures will bind everything together.
@@threeriversforge1997 great info. Thanks for sharing. We haven’t done the plants on the inside, so we will use some of your recommendations. We did the rosemary on the perimeter because we heard that it repels the gophers.
@@pe-man4838 I've heard rosemary and onions are both good for that. I'm waiting on a shipment of Allium cernuum (nodding onion) to try out since it's both native and edible. When you get to researching native plants, you'll run into a famous image of their root systems and how deeply they burrow into the ground. Lead Plant goes down something like 15', and the early settlers used to complain that it made the ground nearly impossible to plow. :D
@PE-man4838 hi neighbor. We just stumbled upon your video while trying to understand what we can do to our Clairemont slope. Any chance we can connect and pick your brain/expertise?
I'm in San Diego, too, and my yard has a steep hill. I installed Dirt Lockers but separate rows (not connected like yours) since the angle is about 43 degrees. My problem is the bottom side of DL is not touching the ground entirely, so the soil slides out. I don't think I can walk on them without losing soil. I'm trying to figure out how to securely close the gaps.... maybe by straw wattles or something. Yours look fabulous, by the way!
One key is to plant native plants that have very deep-rooting habits. That binds the soil in place even against erosion and gravity. A good example of this would be Panicum virgatum (Switch Grass) which is absolutely lovely stuff. It's hair-like roots go down six feet or more and prevent the ground from going anywhere. Echinacea purpurea and E. palida, the Purple Coneflowers everyone loves, are another example. Both are native to California, I believe, so there's no harm in adding them in spots to help tie the dirt lockers to the existing soil strata.
I've had my diamondback 4" belt with the ox and miter bag setup and gatorback suspenders for the last couple years. I just received my tempo belt. Why would they put the molle type slots on the belt if they get covered up by the bags? It would make more sense for the bags to wrap the inner belt, surely it would support the bags more. Not sure if I'm going to keep the tempo belt.
See if ya can find someone that has one and will let ya try pne out. I bought the M4 as soon as it was released, used it up until last fall. Didnt help my elbow much at all tbh. Gave it away to one of my guys. The side puller is awesome, feels nice in hand but is about the same weight as a 20oz. Estwing(not all that light). Good hammer but wasnt the end all of hammers for me. Using a sturnus 13oz. for about a year now along side my 10oz titanium wood handle for trim
Man you went all out new tools and all lol. Nice i actually just got that same setup but with the 4in belt and suspenders. I got the Mule and SxS thinking i wanted a lot of space but its way more than i needed. Ive only used it a few times but i like it ao far
@pe-man4838 I like them forsure I've never used them either but if you got those pouches loaded up pretty good it definitely takes some weight off the hips.
You went from like $200-$300 set up tools included to like $1200-$1300 set up tools included lol Thats a level up for sure. But being in the industry 20+ years you deserve it. Enjoy
I threw them into the washing machine a few times. I had mastic on them and it fell right off. Of course I had to do it when my wife was at work, she would have killed me, knowing I put them in the washing machine.
Diamondback sells handles that clip onto your belt. Also, the back hammer loop is nice for carrying a slap stapler or big snips. If you use either of those things.
Amazingly well. The only issue is the dirt lockers separating from one another. Dirt locker has updated the Installation instructions so it’s installed differently now, it should work. The gopher wire really helped too.
Awesome! Thanks. We had some serious erosion and seeing your video helped us determine that this is something we can do. And we're excited to get started.
it held up fantastic - I think it's due to the plants being more mature and the roots are doing their part in holding the hillside. Before the dirt locker we tried using Rancho sprinkler control to water the hillside. The Rancho would water a few minutes then shut off and do the same cycle for an hour, this help from the water running down the hill. With the dirt locker the plants are doing 100% better since the water isn't running down the hill the plants get all the water.
Hard to tell from the video, but are your dirt lockers LEVEL? Good tip on not filling them with all rock and instead filling with soil and topping that off with rock. Hope this works! Any tips on installing the J hooks over that gopher mesh?
Great video! Really appreciate it. Looking into this for our commercial property with a hill / slope about the same size as yours. Trying to calculate the install time. How long / How many man hours did it take you to install this?
It was basically just me - and my wife helped once in a while. Grading the hill was about 30 hours - metal mesh 4 hours - installing the dirt locker - 6 to 7 hours - filling the dirt locker about 15 hours -irrigation 6 hours - in total - about 56 to 60 work hours. Getting the materials such as dirt, irrigation and rock - about 20 hours Hope this helps
The company has reached out and offered to help fix the dirt lockers ( we had to put that on hold due to water damage to our house) however, it has held up well with the rains we got in San Diego. I will post a follow-up video soon.
I hope you can do a follow-up video to this. I have the same situation including the gophers and am looking into dirt lockers. Any lessons learned from your real-world experience would be very helpful as I think this through.
Thank you for posting this video. Very helpful. How is it holding up ? I know it’s too early to tell, did it keep it’s shape? I have the same sloping in my backyard and I need a solution. Thanks in advance.
I'm in the same situation. looking into a dirt locker for the steepest part of my hill. Follow-up from the original video or even a comment would help us also.
I am looking forward to seeing how this holds up! So glad to see a video not created by the company. We are thinking about using the Dirt Locker system for an eroding hill that was created for an in-ground pool. Our problem has been drainage issues that weren't addressed properly from the side yard. Thanks for all of your tips!
Good luck - having a hillside sucks - it's been nothing but work. When I get the time I'll do a follow up video. There are some cons to the system, but overall I'm glad it's on my hillside.
@@pkher1256 to be honest, I haven't spent much time working on the dirt locker stuff,, I look outside and other than the wonky waves in the dirt locker, it appears to be working (holding up the hillside) and the plants are doing well too. I'll try and do a follow-up video soon.
We also have a steep hill just like yours and purchase the dirt lock system .I will be doing a review on them on my RU-vid sometime,as of right now I have only had them installed for a month and my dirt lockers are coming undone and we've had to take half of them up. we've even called and was told how to fix the problem, but after you have installed 110 dirt lockers and start popping apart it's really frustrating.
I hope you post your video soon, there isn’t enough real life installation video’s, most of the video’s are produced by the manufacturer. I’m hopping the plants will help hold the Dirt locker in place once the rooting gets to the hillside soil.
It would be great to hear from both of you on how your dirt lockers are holding up. I have a similar situation including the gophers but with a steeper slope and am contemplating using a dirt locker for the steep part of the hill.
@@alansnyder8448 my suggestion on a steep slope after dealing with my installation would be putting the dirt Lockers in one at a time meaning you would need to install each one separately using j hooks on each end and not connect them together.
100% agree - Dirt locker told me I should have installed them differently (not how the instructions told me to do so) they wanted me to unattached the lockers from the row above it and put a rebar stake in each locker. To be fair they offered to come help fix it, I waited to long to reply and they are not offering anymore. Keep me posted on what you end up doing. I'm going to do a follow up video soon.
