Realm
Realm
Precision Landscape & Irrigation
Sunrise Landscape + Design
Sunrise Landscape + Design
Top, Left, Right & Inset: At the Realm project, workers welded saw blades to square tubing and then from a large concrete face of the building to
secured the wall toppers using bolts. The gate measures 36-inches wide by five feet tall, and was the natural setting alongside, and convey a
constructed of square steel tubing and old circular saw blades. It took two welders 40 hours to fabricate sense of permanence.
the gate, and eight hours to install. They used a Millermatic Passport Plus portable welder.
Monumental is a large block, with the
base units weighing over 1,140 pounds each.
Middle, Left: At this Dalten, Minnesota project, there were heavy clay soils present, so the contractor, The contractor lost numerous days due to
Precision Landscape & Irrigation, needed six inches of a one-inch angled rock, and then a 12-inch layer the winter weather, which often left the site
of Class V road base. A Weber CR8 was used to achieve 98-percent compaction. The base was six feet slippery and unworkable.
wide due to the curvature of the wall and the proximity to the edge of the bank.
DBM
Another obstacle that they had to overcome
was a significant amount of underground
Bottom, Right: Workers used a John Deere 120D Excavator, Bobcat T300 and John Deere 322 Track
drain tile that no one associated with
Loaders, as well as a Boxer 532 DX Mini Skid-Steer to excavate and install the heavy blocks.
the project had any knowledge of. For
Bottom, Left: The contractor designed a three-level terraced system with a total of 270 linear feet and the softscape, the company used native
1,200 face-feet of the Techo-Bloc wall stone. The project took four to eight workers three months to plant material, and built an access path to
the parking lot using large Pennsylvania
complete, for a total of 900 man-hours.
fieldstone steppers. LC
30 LC DBM