Metal shuttering

[Daniel Jiggins]

I need to re-instate some banking about 25ft long with a small stream at the bottom.

I have seen some metal type shuttering used at my local canal anyone know what this is called or where to get something similar from?

 

Any other suggestions the customer doesn't want wood or concrete gravel boards.

[treequip]

What you are looking for is probably sheet piling

 

Its as heavy as hell and usually installed with a machine

[Pumpy]

treequip is correct, sheet piling is vibrated in with a 16ton+ excavator, very expensive for what it is.

 

Other options include, rock filled wire cages, aka Gabions, also expensive, or willow spiling where green whips/sets are used so the roots stabilize the bank when it grows.

[tilleytrees]

Have a look at This domain is for sale www.willowbank.co.Uk really good natural solution _

[carpenter1]

would steel mesh do?

[Daniel Jiggins]

This is the embankment, you can see the ground has been washed away by the fence posts at the top.

[Peter]

If you wanted a cheap version on a small scale you could use plastisol roofing sheets and dig them in by hand. You would have to cover the tops though, an exposed edge would be quite sharp.

[difflock]

Car or super single tyres, filled with subsoil or dirty gravel, staggered joints and raked back at an angle, if needed, but prob not, (vertically darned with heavy section re-bar, if paranoid).

Easy to place by hand, rounded and soft in appearance, everlasting, and vegitation can either be planted in the chinks, or will naturally grow over.

marcus

[NI Tree]

what's on top of the bank in term of loads

 

and it look like there is a differance in water leavels on both sides of the fence due to the fence stopping all the branches etc i would remove the obstructions so this dose not happen again,

and if you look at the posts the bank has failed were they were driven in and it will most lightly have been the process of putting up the fence helped it fail, along with the water trying to get around the blockage,

i would back fill with large stones and cap with soil to blend it in

[nepia]

See if there are any ideas here.

Pavingexpert - AJ McCormack and Son - Hard Landscape Features - Terracing

 

Something I saw yesterday... concrete hexagons ~12"x12" stood up[right, the tops cut square, the bottoms with three feet. Each foot stands in the top of a cylinder below. The end result is a honeycomb formed of rows of cylinders atop each other but offset so they interlink.

What I saw yesterday hadn't got the pots filled but you could easily do so with spoil.

 

Sorry for the vague description; I'm sure someone will know what I mean and what they're called.

 

The principle is very similar to Difflock's tightwad suggestion! (I'm only jealous you thought of it first).