How I Built My Own Border Wall Cheap

Today I'll show you how I built a cheap Gabion retaining wall to protect my property from flooding and erosion. During thaws and heavy rains, the "Rio Brandon River" which is a fun fictitious name that I gave to a runoff stream in my back yard, has a potential to overflow it's banks, causing unwanted water to flow onto my yard. Hopefully, this wall will protect my property from this water, which has been known to cause problems.
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►Here's a short follow up video a year later when the water finally got to full capacity:

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0:00 Intro
0:27 Game of pretend
01:07 History of gabion walls
01:51 Goat Panels
02:30 Cutting the panels
03:33 Hog Rings explained
05:00 Gabion Basket Assembly
05:50 Installing the Gabion baskets
06:18 Acquiring rubble
06:40 Filling the Baskets
07:45 Outro and display

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[themostlymikeshow]

Thanks for watching! I hope that you got some laughs as well as learned something about this gabion wall madness. Please click the thumbs up button if you enjoyed!

[doughaven-rfid]

Two years later ... I stumble across your wall. The gabion wall is just what i need to hold my retaining wall in place and protect it from when creek rises. I will have to do mine by manual labor as well. Luckily I'm still young (70) . Super fun narration and love the dry humor. Thank you for the timeless quote from President Reagan.

[debbiepeterson]

Genius. I’ve been looking for months on what type of wall we could use on our property for a very similar purpose. And we have tons of huge concrete chunks left on our property by some unknown dumpster. Not mad about that anymore. Now we wait until spring and we’ll take pics for you.

[Sailoralso]

I did a mass wall a number of years ago. Stone face either side, , rubble fill. Grade change from front yard to walk out basement rear.. I feel your pain. Mine was only about 30 feet long, , being a mass wall 8 feet high meant 8 feet wide at the base, , plus a footing that reached another 3 feet down below the frost line. Half a dozen of the stones were very large 400 to 700 pounds. Most were in the 20 to 100 pound range. Just muscle, pry bars, and sneaky when needed. Evenings and weekends as time and weather permitted, zero mortar or cement except the busted up stuff in the center. Just dry laid. This is 30 years on, , nothing has moved or shifted. Wife complained that it took too long, , , , it did.

[ArmouryTerrain]

I have built gabber walls on a professional basis. The biggest one was a retaining wall for a shopping center where we used 4.5 thousand tons of granite and 17 thousand tons of road base behind it. I have also built gabber fortifications for re-enactment, where we weave the baskets out of willow strands and fill with dirt and soil. These are good things to protect cannons with.

[lancemillward]

Not to shabby for your first time. Normally you compact fill and level under before you get going. But difficult in that situation. Well done. Subscribed

[t]

Massive respect! I repaired a collapsed wall and related drainage system this past fall. It’s so true about the days getting shorter while working in the cold with a head lamp and lights.

[mattfromdahl]

I had done a shoreline repair using a product that was essentially gabion walls. It was from a company called Propexglobal the product was called Scourlok. Its basically a gabion wall but using geotextile material lined the inside. It held up to the forces of Lake Michigan and has survived 5 years so far. These 3'x3'x4' bins were ancred down using 9' earth anchors. Any material can be used in the bins. It was a ton of hard work but the end result was well worth it.

[HoboForHire]

Very cool! When I was in Afghanistan we used these to surround our base, only difference is we filled them with sand and stone and they had fabric liner inside to hold it in

[BA-pgod]

Thanks for the new idea. We have a property next to a rental and there is a natural drainage that overflows in the rental's back yard and comes over to our property and runs beside our 48' garage. The water has flooded the building several times as the concrete is just a little above the grade. I told the owner and he acted like he wasn't comprehending what I was telling him. It hasn't flooded recently. This idea would be great for a border wall between the properties.

[sharynhughes]

WoW!. That's Awesome!. I'ma just a female.with no help!. So Thankyou for sharing. 🙏👌💃

[Roadmaster]

Just found your video. Love your videography and your commentary. I bought a "Rock Farm" and need to do a Gabian wall just to get rid of all the rocks/boulders/rubble lying around the property and to delineate the driveway. You made me know I can do this on my own.

P.S. Love the brake rotors in the mesh, and will be doing the same.

[Drew-C-]

Wow, that border joke was painful. Good thing you stuck to the project after that.

[JT-okre]

Looks very good! This is a very eye-pleasing wall as well. I would definitely like to build one of these walls to separate me and my neighbor on the top of the ground. Then structurally trying to make it look aesthetic enough to please both sides.

[RunBikeMike]

Very cool I look forward to hearing your long term review of this wall build

[Balonishell]

I love your sense of humor. So many moments had me cracking up. The ancient mysteries of the Gabion civilization.

[daytonkeyes]

You had me at Rio Brandon. Subscribed.

[roypaulcarter]

I worked on a wall in China in my younger days I had a lot of help there is no way I could have done it by myself. We did it all by hand we even made our own stone blocks. It took us a few years to finish the wall and they say you can see it from space people started calling it the Grate Wall of China but we just call it the border wall back then.

[off-gridhillbillystyle]

Love it man. I'm dealing with a rail road tie wall that fell over. Looking for another build. You gained a sub. And thank you for helping keep America great😃

[ftomcataocretired]

BIG ASS WOW!!!! This was probably, No one of the best video's I ever watched on YouTube. You did an outstanding job presenting this Motion Picture. I also reviewed your jackhammer video earlier before I found this. I got mine in the mail yesterday and can't wait to break up some of this TN rock. Liked and Subscribed. Looking fwd to checking out your other videos. You got a way of being serious & sarcastic at the same time with the dry sense of humor which equals funny and educational. Have a great Navy Day!
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