This wall has been up for at least a year now. So far it is doing great. We have had many major rains and it has held strong. Using rail road timbers, and 6x6 posts set in concrete hopefully the wall will stand strong for decades. But who knows for sure, I am not a building engineer. So if the wall does fail I may have to get one involved to build it right.
The amount of dirt we had to move to make this wall was truly amazing, its image to imagine how much it compacts as you add it.
Right now there are a bunch of weeds growing up on top of it, waiting for them to die back and then I will cut them and use them for tinder to for my furnace.
I come check on it after major rains and it been holding steady.
Seems like some movement is occurring with timbers, hopefully it wont go any further. Those 6x6 posts should hold strong.
With the corners done, we added lots of gravel on top.
Some rocks were used in areas that had gaps.
This corner is not the best, but as long as the dirt stays its fine for now.
The gravel on top will need to be added every so often.
Everyone asks me where I got the railroad ties, you can buy them from Lowes or Home Depot.
This corner probably needs some work, not sure how yet though.. need to look into retaining wall maintenance.
So its up, and seems to be working. And for how long I do not know, never built a wall like this before.
The shooting house, sits on top of the retaining wall. Looking over a field with clover and fruit trees.
Still have a few ties laying around, we used most of them luckily.
I will do another update in a year or so, unless something happens to it.
