Landscaping/Retaining wall lumber?

[GoStumpy]

Off to purchase a yard of gravel for the wall to sit on! Hopefully it'll be enough...

[GoStumpy]

Lumber Purchased!

Gravel Purchased!

Ready for a helluva long day installing!!!

[Ken7]

No pictures of a completed wall....hmmm..

[randosh44]

GEEEEEEEEEEEEE Give him 20 minutes.

[GoStumpy]

haaahaaaahaaaa.

Working 9 hours, then loading & unloading 80 of these means I'm having a beer & pizza!

Tomorrow I'll hopefully get all the substrate in place & levelled... Only available after 6pm to work on it, so...

[OnTheRoadAgain]

I'm planning on the support side, using a 16 or 24" peice going back into the dirt wall spiked to the wall every 8 feet, staggered 1' up and 2' up... Should provide PLENTY of reinforcement to prevent it from falling...

Previous wall was not held in AT ALL, except for rebar pounded 12" into the dirt below it... no horizontal support whatsoever :purefury: :eyeballspin:

Garden ties should suffice, there is not a LOT of dirt to be held back

Your photos indicate you are in a trailer park. Do you own this land, or are you on leased land?

[GoStumpy]

Your photos indicate you are in a trailer park. Do you own this land, or are you on leased land?

Leased.

[OnTheRoadAgain]

Why is it that the property owner is not responsible to put retaining walls in to keep higher properties from sloughing onto lower ones?
I think in common law, it is the responsibility of the owner of the land to ensure higher properties don't fall onto lower ones.
I also think that in tenancy law, the property owner is responsible to fix broken retaining walls on their property when the land is leased.
Will you be compensated by the land owner for your cost and labour?

[GoStumpy]

Nope, clear as day in the tenancy agreement that we signed, retaining walls and embankments are the responsibility of the tenant... If I didn't care it wouldn't matter, it would just be an embankment.. But I don't want to lose two feet of my yard ! And I want a fence..