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)


Brush on edge to clear way for wheel flanges

 

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


Digging out for water feature gives soil for filling up top planter, without having to transport any fresh in

 

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

Area to left here at bottom of cliff & upto tree, will be a level yard just above water level for sidings Quay etc,

that maybe developed later, when the main work is finished

 

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

Planted a box bush sideways into the cliff face

 

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


Gave it a drastic bit of amputation to reshape it

 

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

As its the type of plant that grows leaves all up its main stems as well - -

 

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

Then used a pruning knife to remove them, to make it look more realistic in scale

 

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

So now it looks like this,

if after a few weeks it does not start to turn upwards in its growth, I might help it by using wires to pull it into shape more

 

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DATE CHECK Mar 25th 2009
Strangely enough, this wind netting is proving very useful this morning,

I put it up to protect the new Fuchsias from the frost,

but today its saving them all from the very variable north wind.

one minute its calm, the next its blowing a blustery gale

I recon they would be shredded by now other wise, especially up on top of the planter

 

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

looking back at my pics of rock faces at Cheddar Gorge,

I thought that I might try to simulate this

 

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

So I had a small bit not yet faced up just below one of the scree planters.

so I applied a mix to the wall,

drew horizontal lines in with the point of the trowel, about 1.5 ins apart,

took a bit of 40x40mm wood batten

and impressed it into the mix just off right angles, end on, about 2 ins apart

so that it left wedge shaped marks

stippled it with a very soft nylon brush

looks so!

different

we will see what it looks like when it dries out

 

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Too uniform I think,

needs more gentle curve to the bedding planes etc

& more variety to the joints

think this sort of technique is going to be very time consuming

Perhaps it needs more emphasis on a very few joints like in this pic


& less other detail

as when doing just some scribing of bick joints instead of EVERY one

 

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Not quite sure how to tidy up this edge/drop off!

previously there was a safety fence from 50mm steel mesh,

but tended to catch on clothing when at speed in the wheelchair!

Did think of building a concrete retaining wall,25mm thick, right on the edge,

reinforced with steel bolts fixed through the base paving slabs

Need something, there I think, as its a 24 - 30 inch drop along here

 

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

Inhabitants of top planter coming along nicely

these were planted about 2 weeks ago

 

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This white rock cress is just romping away

 

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

The second planter on the other side of where the bridges will go, has started to take shape

Built mainly from broken celcon blocks from frreecycle

 

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


Base foundation for wall is also waterside area for quays etc Wall built in a zig zag to break up too many long cliff faces

 

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Trying out using natural stone, laying it so it looks like its following a natural bedding plane

Normally too expensive, to use a lot of it,

but got this for free from Council recycling depot, where they let you take stuff out of the hardcore skip for free

Not finished yet, will need filling in with hypertuffa so it will grow moss between the rocks, so far its fixed with mortar

 

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The idea is that, a camera viewing angle is created, with the rock in the foreground, with a shot along the water feature, & trees eventually hiding that back fence

 

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Block work started to get covered with hypertuffa