...the F are you doing replying to your own posts ? ....
Ho hee ho
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Gabions
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Split personality sharing same account? Ho hee
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Don't flatter him! :-)
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There fixed it for you Ho ho
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should they be neatly filled or does it not matter? ....
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google will not help you .....tee hee
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what ? ....
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and why not? ....
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He?s a trouble making troll.
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Just the outward faces have whatever your chosen facing stacked neatly, behind the facing the usual material us some form of coarse stone chips shovelled in.
Richard
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In general I thing gabions are unattractive. But they're functional. If I was in the position of filling gabions, I'd include quite a lot of soil along with the stone, and into the sides I'd plant perennials that like that situation, i.e. that like growing in walls, like good drainage and tolerate dry conditions, to mask the stones and wire.
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What are you doing with them, retaining an embankment, or containing a blast from a vehicle bourn IED?
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I'm sure an expert on everything like you could have given me an answer if you could have found it on google....tee hee
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it was years ago a guy building a house had attempted to build a retaining wall behind his house using light weight concrete blocks......I wouldn't accept it and suggested gabions.....so he got the cages and started filling them with all sorts of rubble and old brickwork in a very random fashion ....so I called in out pet Engineer and he said that was acceptable.......just didn't look right to me as every other gabion wall I had seen had the stone nicely packed ......just asking
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For good appearance, the visible face does need to be neatly packed. A mate of mine who did it reckons that significantly increases the "build time". I do quite like the other idea of including earth too, so that you can end up with a creeper facing.
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So, did you go through all 9 million results for 'gabion' or jiust the 232,00 results for 'filling gabion baskets' bedore reaching that conclusion?
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Depends where you are putting them. I usually put even stones all around the edges and fill in the middle with whatever's left over. What's more important from a strength and stability point of view, is that you put tie wires from back to front and end to end.
How many of those you need is obviously dependent on the size of the baskets you are using. I can give you more detailed intructions if you need them.
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Billy Bunter is just trolling I reckon. Seriously, has ANYONE said ?tee hee? since him?
Tim
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Does anyone know what happens to a gabion retaining wall when the steel baskets have rusted away? Is it meant to have filled up with enough earth and vegetation by then that it just stays put, maybe helped by interlocking stones in the fill?
John
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Whether it all stays put depends on the stacking arrangement & horizontal loads, plus whether deep rooted vegetation has taken hold. That's why they're not permitted to be used as part of a house construction.
NT