This is a continuation of a previous project. We did a couple of years ago terracing the hillside. We remove some old wood walls over failing concrete walls and installed a new 13 foot exposed wood retainer wall. 
Thank you for watching my channel and your comment! You’re exactly right. We talk about safety and try to have a team meeting every morning just to discuss things that need to be done properly. But there’s always a risk and something like this. We just try to minimize them.
What I like about what you do Dale , is that your actually being environmentally conscious in going about preserving the land in that the water no longer washes away or damages more land and infrastructure . Nice work Dale and I hope your feeling better 👍.
Thank you yeah we like to try to keep it environment in mind as we’re doing our construction work for sure! Shoulders getting better eight weeks out still a little pain in the shoulder trying to take it as easy as I can waiting for that six month where I’m supposed to be 😃
Absolutely amazing work. I don't think too many people realize what it takes, (Time, money, and labor) for something like that! Makes me appreciate my 100ft flat seawall a little better haha
Thanks for watching. I appreciate your comment. I don’t blame you. I love watching them too. I’m gonna start adding the segment at the end of all the silly dog tricks and my wife has a total for Chihuahuas that I still need to debut.
@@DaleWHickman it’s been a while since I’ve seen you posting more frequently. Honestly surprised your channel hasn’t grown really big. Not much construction content like this on RU-vid.
@@PerkBuilders yeah I feel the exact same way. I was getting a little discouraged. That’s why I kind of slowed down. Feel like I was just wasting my time, but I like to show off the work that we do.
Thanks for watching and your comment just been doing this for at least 40 years. I love the way I can stagger the joints and have like a solid beam and not have an open joint behind the pilings with the triple boards or the double boards easier to work with as far as weight on some of the steep hill sides.
Wood walls out of the water do offer a warranty wants in the water. There is no warranty at all because of Tito bore worms. Some vinyl comes with a 50 year and other vinyls come with a lifetime warranty. The reason why I would use the wood or vinyl along the shoreline is because I can get it down into the ground below the wave action as to Block you’ve got to build to foundation which can be washed out then the wall falls over. The only way to prevent this after you get a good deep foundation in on your block wall is put a lot of rip wrap in front of it so it does not get washed out.
Hey dale, I was wondering if you think a 3.5 ton excavator could drive 16’ piles for bulkheads in shallow areas such as lakes and canals. I’ve had a couple people tell me it could work but be hard just want someone else’s thought.
Thank you for watching in your question. I’ve got a John Deere50 that I use on smaller jobs but it really depends on the soil condition whether it’s going to drive it handles the 6 inch pulse pretty good anything larger it really struggles.
