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[QUOTE="kingofnobbys, post: 1962172, member: 81934"] Project 2 Create a raised bed garden bed to remove / hide the eyesore / cliff left in the middle of my backyard by the escavator guy when he was prepping for the concreter to 1) extend the garage slab from 6m x 6m to 9m x 9.5m 2) extend the driveway that used to end at the back of the house to the new slab 3) wide the bottom of the driveway to make for good access to the sth roller door of the old garage. The slab and driveway extensions layed and set [img]https://i.postimg.cc/s2kwYT93/P7110367.jpg[/img] The problem area I wanted to convert from a dangerous fall hazards and eyesore to an asset and a great highlight for my back yard as off 12 Jul 2019 ( driveway and slab extension had cured and set so was OK drive on . Cliffs left [img]https://i.postimg.cc/HkjcpdGh/P6260301.jpg[/img] [img]https://i.postimg.cc/XN8pdp4P/P7120370.jpg[/img] looking down driveway [img]https://i.postimg.cc/kM0qVCtH/P7120374.jpg[/img] looking up driveway south drop-off/ cliff adjacent to driveway [img]https://i.postimg.cc/1zqK3px2/P7120375.jpg[/img] [img]https://i.postimg.cc/t4hTRTSD/P7120380.jpg[/img] [img]https://i.postimg.cc/1zvy4Np0/P7120384.jpg[/img] [img]https://i.postimg.cc/Pq0TmnRN/P7120388.jpg[/img] 80cm cliff in front of the driveway The string lines and 4m spirit level came back out and I finally settled on a large hockey stick shaped raised bed made entirely from timber with a large level flat bed and step down to smaller bed infront of the garage. The plan I had my Egyptian boat builder work off : [img]https://i.postimg.cc/h4z2Gzx9/P8180538-sketch-of-plan.jpg[/img] Final fixed datum for level of bed. [img]https://i.postimg.cc/kXhgq5rR/screenshot-80.png[/img] To make a better use of his time I hired a cantilevered petrol powered post-hole digger [url=https://www.kennards.com.au/post-hole-digger-1-man-petrol-cantilever.html#tab-specifications]https://www.kennards.com.au/post-hole-digger-1-man-petrol-cantilever.html#tab-specifications[/url] to dig > the 10 post holes required > the 9 post holes for three 1.5m x 3m raised production beds (project 3) > and the 6 post holes required for the big 6m x 1.5m raised feature bed at the back fence (project 4) = 25 post holes ( 25cm diam x at least 0.5m deep ) took 3 days to dig using the machine - would have taken 3x longer by hand. Setting the 100x100 F4 grade treated pine posts in concrete = a forest of 10 x 2.4m long posts in the ground - some as deep as 0.8m deep in concrete !! , in concrete 18 Aug 2019. [img]https://i.postimg.cc/4djJ67BD/P8150506straightened.jpg[/img] [img]https://i.postimg.cc/J0bWjTyX/P8180532.jpg[/img] [img]https://i.postimg.cc/sfP89G65/P8180533.jpg[/img] [img]https://i.postimg.cc/hvK23MyT/P8180534.jpg[/img] Attaching sleepers to the posts required predrilling all holes first before using specially coated coach screws ( to ensure no corrosion once under the soil ). [img]https://i.postimg.cc/C5fxXHRM/P8250555.jpg[/img] [img]https://i.postimg.cc/VL8JppW3/P8260556-looking-east-at-wide-part-of-top-hockeystick-shaped-bed-finished-26aug2019-and-minor-storm.jpg[/img] [img]https://i.postimg.cc/htGtqBz3/P8260557-cropped-looking-south-at-top-of-hockeystick-shaped-bed-finished-26aug2018.jpg[/img] [img]https://i.postimg.cc/FRb4LWkL/P8260558.jpg[/img] [img]https://i.postimg.cc/jdFGL031/P8260562-cropped-looking-along-south-side-of-hockeystick-shaped-bed-finished-26aug2018.jpg[/img] [img]https://i.postimg.cc/Kz35qwD1/P8260563.jpg[/img] [color=#FF0000]NOTE THE CONCRETE BLOCKS USED UNDER THE BOTTOM COURSE OF SLEEPERS = THESE ARE TO protect the bottom pavers from wet rot ( this is the lowest point infront of my slab and we observed water ponding there that took a long time to drain ( clay is impervious to water )[/color] [img]https://i.postimg.cc/hPsVrKRC/P8260565-low-bed-showing-some-carpentry-details-completed-26aug2019.jpg[/img] 26 Aug 2019 - Is assembled and ready for fill and topping with 20cm depth of premium garden soil. I had plans for the offcuts , very little of the offcuts of 75x200 sleepers and 100x100 posts went to waste. [/QUOTE]
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