Gab-Tail Gabion

This is a Gabion basket with a mesh tail extended horizontally back into the back-fill embankment.

Why you need Gab-Tail Gabion…

To reduce the time to build a fill embankment structure.
To reduce the volume of rock required to fill a gabion mass gravity wall.

In a fill situation where you need a retaining wall erected.
Build the wall quickly and save on the overall structure cost.

The Gab-tail is a reinforced soil system, with gabion unit facing, together with an extended hexagonal woven mesh tail, which extends back into the soil. Generally when your gabion structure is higher than 4 meters, and built in a fill(backfill) situation, the reinforced Gabion soil system becomes more economical and faster to install. The external gabion baskets facing provide the front internal stability to the overall structure. The mesh tails improve the lateral shear resistance (Tensile strength of the soil) providing improved overall stability improvement of the structure. A selected backfill is required meeting the requirements of at least a G6 or G7 backfill gravel, with no aggregate greater than 100-150mm that may damage the mesh. Normally this material is compacted in layers of not more than 150mm, normally to 95% ModAashto. Please contact us for any further information you require in this regard. Typical sectional and isometric drawings are shown below to assist with your understanding.

Typical Gab-Tail Gabion

Mesh Specification

Typical Detail

Gab-Tail Gabion Features

Gabion basket supplied with ready made tail reinforcement.
Mesh used is high strength in 2.70mm wire diameter.

Supplied in Gavlanised or with PVC coating hexagonal mesh.
Requires a high quality selected backfill soil for compaction at 93% – 95% ModAashto.

Get in touch with us

Submit the form below or give us a call on +27 11 882 5788

Gab-Tail Gabion uses ?

Mining Tip Walls.
Used for larger walls over 4 metre height, to save on the rock and installation costs.

Walls needing to be built in a fill situation.
Walls where these is a lack of suitable rock supply.

Gab-Tail Gabion in Action

Gab Tail 1

Gab Tail 2

Gab Tail 3

Gab Tail 4

Gab Tail 5

For those with extra questions…

We can indeed offer specialist experienced installers, or supply an experienced trainer to site.

We offer full technical product knowledge and powerpoint technical training and presentations.

We certainly can visit site, for which we charge a small fee to cover expenses for the site visit, full design (if required) and quotation.

We visit sites we needed, for friendly advice and also offer full site practical training for our products.

We can supply our range of products, including the whole range, with rock supplied separately to site, to make your buying process easier.

We have a few options for getting the knowledge to install our materials, having a Youtube website channel, called Gabionbaskets, where we show installation videos and animations as well as printed A4 sheets showing the correct installation process. For applications we show some on our website, kindly contact us for more information in this regard.

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