Gabion Wall Trimming!

[Sussex Groundie]

Wow thats a big one, never had to do anything that size but have done a few domestics. One had "trunks" as big as your am/leg growing 4-6ft vertically on the top. Luckily was able to park the truck next to it and drive along. Did surprise me when I got to the tip and the waste weighed in at 1/4 ton.

[treequip]

Not wishing to derail the thread too much; what happes when the galvanising corrodes off the wire and the wire starts rusting?

 

I have seen cages that are decades old and no sign of corrosion other than a little surface oxidation on the zinc.

[WeeDee]

I have seen cages that are decades old and no sign of corrosion other than a little surface oxidation on the zinc.

 

I've seen them used as cascade run-off chutes to disperse the erosive effects of the running water on slopes. Never seen any problem with corrosion.

[Dean Lofthouse]

If the galv is good it should last indefinately as Treequip says.

 

Jimmy heseldine was the inventor, he was a very wealthy man but he didn't make his millions selling the gabions as retaining / landscaping stuff. He made his money when the military took them on as flat pack blast walls. They could be shipped to Afghanistan for example into the desert, assembled, cloth bag inserted and filled with sand, hey presto, you can build a camp in the middle of the desert almost over night

Edited December 29, 2013 by Dean Lofthouse