Timelapse of a 26 day work of building a retaining wall (in 10 minutes)

In this video you can see how our retaining wall is build in 26 days.

A few comments on some comments below: "I can build this retaining wall in 2 days, 3 days, 5 days" , fill in your own number of days. There is even a guy who can do it in 12 hours. My comment: No you can't, go back to your mother and ask for a cookie.

"That retaining wall will rot in 1 year, 2 years etc, etc." No it won't. New Zealand is full of retaining walls build to this system. Some of them are more than 40 years old. Retaining walls must comply with the requirements of the New Zealand Building code. The poles are H5 treated. The boards H4

"They didn't even put drainage in!" Yes they did at 8.15

"They should use bigger machinery" That won't fit on my driveway.

Place is Napier, Bluff Hill, New Zealand.

[woody]

I’ve built walls for 40 years, these guys know what their doing. Great drainage, upper slope protection, there’s not really that much pushing on the wall and I’m sure there’s no freeze season. Well done, bravo to the excavator operator 👍

[nickbrown]

What a very professional landscaping team, cleaning up as they go along thus keeping a safe working environment. There should be more landscapers like them.

[Twoonefive]

I might be an engineering/landscaping nerd but seeting a nicely built retaining wall excites me...

[dputra]

I've never seen wood retaining wall with logs like that. It looks so good but I wonder if it will last for decades like stone walls, especially there's nothing holding the mass behind those planks.

[jeejee]

Props to the sun for never setting so these men could work for 26 days straight😊😊😊

[fredericksullivan]

That was mesmerizing, nothing like watching pro contractors do their magic, what an amazing transformation.

[muddboss]

Not very often you see the operator actually doing manual labor you guys have definitely earned my subscription keep up the great work

[simong]

Great video and excellent work by that crew. Great health and safety practiced on-site.

It is good to watch this as I am currently pricing retaining walls and land remediation at work.
It gives me a better understanding of the massive amount of work required and some realistic time frames.

Thanks

[boboften]

New Zealand is an Equake Prone County
Napier is on a fault line
( look in to the Napier Earth Quakes 1931 )
Timber is flexible, ie has a give and take flexibility movement

Note the road way above the construction work, the road way is active with cars driving on it

I would go with wood
These poles are approximately 300mm across ( 12 inches ) or even larger
Damn fine work done here
Excellent over kill job
Correct for this situation
Chur Bro .

[watchthe]

I am glad to see they did the necessary deep layer checks for sheer layers and did deeper remediation if it was needed. Everything else looks well and professionally done including removing that lose organic overburden, which was just trouble waiting to happen.

[Thecomper]

It is impressive to see how they were covering the holes after digging, nobody cares, and takes any kind of safety measures even kids roam around here in India.

[jacobbelfield]

That’s one timber retaining wall I won’t be talking smack on. Good job. The cone to fill up the Tb was clever too

[giovannifiorentino]

These time elapsed videos are great tools to analyze and improve productivity.

[MooKau_]

Mate.. all that work right through the video, and then suddenly it gets changed back to exactly how it was as you finish.

what a blow!

[JoeNielsen]

This was very satisfying to watch!
Very impressed they washed the road !
Great job too!

[bruceperron]

I poured walls back in the early to mid 90's.We used the Advance form panels. We had our own crew that only poured footings, they would dowel them and also tie the rebar on 16 inch centers, vertically and horizontally. We would set the panels, string them, kick them off with long turnbuckles. We had to have many of the jobs pumped because we couldn't pour them off the truck. We could make any wall or basement in 8, 10, 12, inch thickness. I could pour a retaining wall or basement in the morning and the next day take the forms offs and break the wall tie ends off, then load the panels back on the truck to drive to the next job, We probably poured a hundred basements for new home construction, dozens and dozens of retaining walls as well when i was doing it. We once in fact poured a retaining wall that was about half a mile long in a lake after they lowered the lake for the winter, that sucked lol. That sure was hard work lol.

[troymeredith]

I was nearly going to say something about the wholes not being covered, but you guys did eventually Get them covered 😉.as a foundation driller and excavator operator my self, i know what goes in to jobs like this and i liked the way you kept it tidy .makes a job so much easier and safer.great job lads.

[mikescaffo]

Those little machines are really handy to have they do a lot of work well done gentlemen

[martinogold]

That's a very nice looking wall which is refreshingly different to concrete or block. Good job!

[scottcook]

100% top notch work here. Impressed that they got it done in only 26 days. Ultra efficient, and this is how long something takes when it's done right.