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Applications

Applications

Gabions and river mattresses

Roads

Concrete retaining walls

Sports fields

Railway tracks

Behind concrete walls and Embankments

Provides waterproofing qualities for layer works and wearing courses

The separation of good and poor roadway layer work materials
roads over soft soils

Gabion structures
landfill sites

Specifications

Specifications

SAUSAGE GABIONS

SAUSAGE GABIONS

Also referred to as a sack gabion, cylindrical shaped, filled to 75% capacity with rock, used in restricted areas or to act as foundation for gabion river structures. Also used quickly in emergency situations.

Why you need the Sausage Gabion

The sausage gabion is manufactured from a hexagonal woven mesh panel, made out of Gabion mesh 80 x 100 x 2.7mm and rolled into a sausage on site and filled with rock to 75% fill capacity and laced together with the 2.20mm Binding wire. This is an extremely useful product for founding Gabion structures where you might normally consider using loose rock or rip – rap. Bearing in mind that loose rock can be washed away by high water velocities, it makes sense to rather enclose the rock in a flexible woven mesh cage and prevent this from happening. On flexible clay soil foundations a mesh contained rock pack will move much less that loose rock. The product is available with Class A Galvanising or with grey PVC coating.

Sausage gabions should also preferably placed above a geotextile layer and individual sausages should be anchored or laced together where possible unless they are anchored below the mass of the gabion structure, to prevent lateral movement under high water velocities.

Product size – 2m long x 0.65 m diameter – 0.85m3 or 1ton or rock required

What can Sausage Gabion be used for?

  • Gabion founding support - Scour holes where rock only will not be sufficient
  • Emergency flooding damage prevention - Irregular shaped riverways requiring little soil excavation.

Features

Features