Sandbags for slope stabilistion

Why not hire a BIG digger for a while and remodel the whole area?

Anthony what are you wanting to do, is it simply to clear the path or do something with the slope which quite frankly to me looks like a losing battle? Unless you are prepared to do some major groundwork?s with the inability to get machinery in being a major constraint. That slope looks like it will give you constant problems and it might be better to learn to live with it. Perhaps re- laying the path on top of what has slipped down with an additional step or two up to the new level might be the simplest if just preserving the path is the issue.

Richard

1) I need to clear the area to the right of the path which has my squashed shed against a tree, a tree that is nigh on horizontal and another tree that is leaning precariously against an unaffected tree. Some of this is just slog and in the process I will have cleared the path that goes up one side, across and down the other.

I have a logistics problem of what to do with all the material, that might be partly solved depending on what I do with 2)

2) If anything else slips from above it will have a clear run to the path and then to the garden below. Thus far it seems that a mixture of gabions, sandbags and judicious reseeding might help stablise the upper part. I plan to fill the sandbags with the soil/clay that has come down and use them in conjunction with the gabions to builld an intermediate level above the existing retaining wall. I'm hoping also to use some of the trunks of one of the damaged trees to help form a horizontal barrier.

Hopefully once I get up to the exposed areas I will be able to gauge how solid or otherwise it is as well.

If all goes well I'd like to re-establish a shed/hide-out.

It's going to take a while.

To the earlier poster's suggestion of getting a digger, there is no way. I have not access from the road, I have no access from above, there is no way for the digger to get up to the top of the back.