With 2 small kids and no place to play they needed a solution. We cut out the hill, install a retaining wall, flatten out the top and flatten out the lower portion and build them a new yard- start to finish.
On the string line, hold it on the brick of the house a few feet back from the corner then move the other end until the string touches the brick. Much more accurate way than eye-balling.
The name of the video made it sound like this is part two of the two part. I was just looking around going, WHERE IS PART ONE?? lol. Awesome work as always!
awesome video. immediately caught my attention as I'm doing the same thing in my back yard that has a slope, but I just have a shovel and my back 🤷♂️ you guys always do great work! keep the vids coming! 👍
@@Paap810 went well, took my time and worked on it after rains when the ground was soft. It's all rocks from pebbles to boulders and clay where I live so it took some muscle at times but completely doable. A pick axe was a must to dig out the large rocks and pry them out of the ground. Only have one rock thats to large to move but it's turned into a nice landscape feature now so it worked out. The only real challenge was finding the motivation to do it in my spare time.
Yeah might as well I've seen people hauling trailers for a company for the entire two years they've worked at the company and not get gas money or a company truck and they don't realize how much they're being cheated
@12:27 I love seeing the kids watch the team hard at work through the back window and thinking how much they're going to enjoy that nice flat back yard and all the hard work busting thier ass in that 90°+ heat.
I am trying to do the exact same thing for the exact reason. My house is on a hill and I to build retaining wall and move dirt around. Having heavy machinery really makes the job easier.. Stan, love your work man and wish you were around my area to help me with a very similar situation. Looking to take on this project on my own following your videos and advice.Great tips and vids as always.
Nice work guys. I've been pouring concrete walls for more than ten years ... I like your retaining walls a bit more than ours ...I also like how organized you guys seem to be. I'm sure it is not always that way....thank you for posting.
Little trick for you when building versa-lok block walls. Put a rope in the groves and then you do not have to worry about getting rock and dirt in them. That is what I do when I build them, works really good!
@@Dirtmonkey Not a problem! I love working with heavy machinery. And never once have I seen someone as passionate to work outdoors. Im 18 and I have a work ethic. But dude im nothing compared to you guys. Keep up the great work#
Did you ever get it done?? I’m doing something like this but all hand tools...lots of digging about halfway there. I would imagine someone would charge 5k all the way to 10k think how much these guys charge to dig pools.
I remember when I went to this playground, which my family and I affectionately named The Big Hill Park. There was this big hill, which we loved to climb. We loved the hill. A couple of years ago, I saw the hill being flattened. I decided to have a funeral for the hill, which some people said was a ridiculous idea.
Stan, check out getting some tailgate mates! They funnel aggregate from dump trailers and dump trucks into a skid loader bucket or wheelbarrows, etc. super strong magnetic guides. You have way less mess when working off a street like that. We bought a set and just keep them in the under storage of our trailer.
@@40EntrepreneurDrive Yeah landscaping out here is expensive to begin with and then when you start building walls and moving dirt and bringing in heavy equipment it gets expensive really fast!
Maybe if you bought a jack hammer and got the tamper attachment which I have you could do those tight spots more efficiently. I own a Hitachi PH-65A jack hammer that I bought new off of EBay and bought the tamper attachment which is about 8 inches by maybe 10 and it’s good for those tight spots. I bought the attachment on EBay too.
Hey Stan. I work with a stump grinding company that occasionally does skidsteer work such as regrading and land clearing. I am the main skid steer operator and was wondering if you could make more specific videos on how to cut into the side of a hill properly and make sure you get an area flat?
that saw fires so easy because its still very new so it has great compression. after a few dozen hours those rings start to get some slop and the more slop the harder to start it will be
Just a suggestion for you gasoline equipment, especially if you think it might sit for extended periods of time; get what is called marine / RV gas, it doesn't have the ethanol in it that causes problems with equipment that might sit for 3 to 5 months without running. I have been doing that for my snow blower and lawnmower gas for the last few years. I don't even drain the fuel out of them any more and have no problem starting them at the start of the next season for the equipment. Yes that gas is more expensive than pump gas but it's worth it.
Wait, did I miss the part where you go down under the frost line 30 inches give or take to put the wall on top of that so that it will last?? I cannot imagine this would last a long time without a good foundation under the soil?
I am looking for ideas to create beauitiful hills on my back and front yards. All designers are trying to create multi level with plants on flat lot. Love hills
Dman473 even with the clear in the front those trailers are so damn heavily it really doesn’t matter unless you got a thousand pounds sitting on the back.
WHERE are you located? I have been looking for a reliable contractor to do the same thing. Just looking at the video if this had 6 ft or so. Mine I suspect is ranging 6 to 8 ft. It starts from what was once a concrete patio. Where can I find your contact info?
RU-vid: "heres a cool video for you" Me: "oh neat but this is part 2" RU-vid: "yup" Me: "sooo could you recommend part 1?" RU-vid: "nope" Me: "but.. its part 2, now i have to manually search for part 1?" RU-vid: "yup" Me: "..." Me: *finds part 1* RU-vid: "..." Me: "you gonna recommend part 2 so i can watch it next?" RU-vid: "best i can do is a video from 12 years ago take it or leave it"
I have about the same type of yard except there is muddy area at bottom and the land is slowly sliding or sinking, its so we at the bottom there is a colony of crayfish. I wonder how much it would cost to make at close to level or under a 15% incline
I wish you could come to Northeast Tennessee. At the risk of sounding like Crocodile Dundee, “That’s not a hill.... this is a hill”. Seriously though, that slope is a joke.
Looking into the same type of situation with my yard. Why not just add truckloads of dirt where needled instead of excavating the dirt from other areas of the yard? Money?
These are by a company called Versa-Lok ( www.versa-lok.com/ ). They have a variety of styles and sizes, all high quality. The website has a dealer locator. Hope that helps.
This is what I need. What type of contractor or landscaper exactly does this? Because It's a lot easier to find what I'm looking for on RU-vid but when I try to explain it over the phone it seems like it is out of the realm of the companies that I called. Maybe I'm describing it incorrectly? Also, if you have narrow access to get to your backyard, what type of Machinery/digger can you get there to do the work? What is the smallest type of bobcat there is I wonder?
Hi. Amazing video! I want to plant thuja hedge on the top of the wall. Could you also tell what should be the distance between the wall and thujas planting?
