> Thanks Bob- 'sandbags' is kind of misnomer in my case, that's what they
> are commerically
> speaking, meaning I purchased sand bags, but I filled them with local
> adobe soil and
> tamped them down into basically a rammed earth wall, constructed one bag
> at a time,
> mortared together with barbed wire and encased paper/adobe/lime stucco
> reinforced with
> metal mesh and pinned vertically with rebar at 3 foot increments. As for
> the foundation
> section, its fist sized rock inside of bags to a height of two feet above
> grade, also coated
> with said metal mesh and etc. It can't balloon out and collapse because
> the metal mesh is
> tied at one foot intervals through the center of the wall and to the
> opposite face of metal
> mesh.
I like the way the state does embankmets here in the DFW region. First they
lay down storm fence then a layer of rubble on half of it. The other half is
folded back over the top of the rubble. Then a layer of rubble is placed on
top then another layer of fence then rubble then fold and so on. Kind of
Dagwood sandwich of rubble and fence. They work right up steep embankmnets
with it and it never seems to move. The reason to mention is I think it
would be a good way for foundation as well. The stuff would be very strong
with or without a fc coating. Bob C
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