Options to avoid sharp corner, & steep grade ( Hind sight is wonderful)

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Re: Options for avoiding a sharp corner, Also on a severe gradient ( Hind sight is wonderful)


laying down blocks to support the formwork,
I should have filled the planters with soil, so that would have supported it,
but I was too bushed to do so at the time

 

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Re: Options for avoiding a sharp corner, Also on a severe gradient ( Hind sight is wonderful)


Using floorboards for side forming, plastic sheet used to stop concrete adhering to the blocks, which will be extracted after setting

 

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Re: Options for avoiding a sharp corner, Also on a severe gradient ( Hind sight is wonderful)

Reinforcing in place,

when concreting was done, the iron did not sit straight on the wall tops but on a pad of concrete

 

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Re: Options for avoiding a sharp corner, Also on a severe gradient ( Hind sight is wonderful)

Concrete poured, now this is where the mixer comes into its own

Simplicity of mix two 25kg bags ballast + 1 measure of cement in a suitable sized container saves work

 

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shuttering in place for levelling out top of planter bottom level

 

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Batten removed from behind copeing on wall top

 

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When track is ballasted , ballast will be level with top of copeing

 

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new track snaking away into the distance,

Yes ok, yes I know its upside down I am only laying it out to get a visual as I build on

Thats the way it was already bent

 

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So part A of new planter 1 is structurally completed upto track level

 

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Re: Options for avoiding a sharp corner, Also on a severe gradient ( Hind sight is wonderful)

Another visual aid

these are part of a job lot of broken celcons as received,

I thought I would try & go for really rustic type rock portal/tunnel

if it doesnt work out can still do a proper mouth

 

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just a dry run with the blocks to see how it looks

 

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Re: Options for avoiding a sharp corner, Also on a severe gradient ( Hind sight is wonderful)

Temporary support in the middle while the mortar sets

 

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Looking from the other way, along the track path, Now building for real

 

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Re: Options for avoiding a sharp corner, Also on a severe gradient ( Hind sight is wonderful)

Another two layers of blocks to be added yet upto same height as above tunnel mouth,

The formed top planter will then have Fuchsias in it.

 

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I have a vague idea stirring at the back of my mind

for a harbour/quayside coming off the end of the first planter,

utilising the castings made from Mike's moulds

 

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Running first over two sections of these with water running down under

 

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Re: Options for avoiding a sharp corner, Also on a severe gradient ( Hind sight is wonderful)

Running first over two sections of these with water running down under

 

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oops do that one again as I cant edit it
with a couple of these at right angles, to form a quay, complete with lake

 

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But for the moment its complete one step at a time,

so I dont get caught out with it all only part finished

 

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Re: Options for avoiding a sharp corner, Also on a severe gradient ( Hind sight is wonderful)

Done a bit of track testing this morning, after the early Sun enticed me outside,

then it immediatelly turned grey