The gabion walls along the road near Sabie in Mpumalanga are now almost complete, there are four walls in total with various lengths. The first retaining wall is 4 metres high and is used to retain the cut slope-embankment, reduce water velocities off the tailings slope and act as a rock catch wall for silt and rock/debris coming off the cut slope, thus preventing this material falling onto the roadway.
The gabion walls along the road near Sabie in Mpumalanga are now almost complete, there are four walls in total with various lengths. The first retaining wall is 4 metres high and is used to retain the cut slope-embankment, reduce water velocities off the tailings slope and act as a rock catch wall for silt and rock/debris coming off the cut slope, thus preventing this material falling onto the roadway.
The second gabion wall below the roadway(halfway up the fill slope) will prevent lateral movement of soils from next to and below the roadway. Thus reducing the risk of roadway settlement and failure, we assisted with the supply of gabion materials, geotextile and toolsets to the site. When the work started we assisted the contractor with the on-site gabion training during initial erections which went off well in the end and made for rapid erection and skills transfer on site. This gabion project should be complete by end October 2009.
Please view the rock spoil photo below and note the reason that most gabion contractors allow for about 30% waste or fines in the rock costing calculation, as this finer material generally cannot be used inside the gabion container as the rock size is too small or consists predominantly of finer material.
We suggest the use of gabions tool sets to improve gabion installations on sites, our gabion frames shown in the photo below allow for better basket shape once filled correctly. The baskets should be tensioned horizontally or vertically before the filling process takes place, the tension direction is dependant on whether you have an external horizontal or vertical mesh direction. Please contact us for further explanation regarding this interesting concept. All gabion walls generally use a geotextile behind and below the wall to reduce fine soil leaching through the gabion wall.
Gabions are a common application in the world and we try to help wherever we can to show how easy they are to be installed on sites using a local unskilled labour force.
South African manufactured Class-A Galvanised or with Grey PVC coated Hexagonal woven mesh or Square Weldmesh baskets and mattresses.
Protect the integrity of your gabion basket installation with high-quality geotextiles between your gabion structures and the soil.
Sandbags are an ideal solution when it comes to soil erosion protection, and diverting floodwaters away from sensitive installations or homes.
These blankets promote vegetation growth when combined with your gabion structure and help retain the important topsoil.
Heavy rocks need heavy transport. Our Barrows were specially designed to transport our quality products.
Hexagonal woven mesh is the perfect product for rockfall mesh netting and to cover large areas of river mattresses quickly.
Fully made up Gabion baskets or mesh rolls/panels are offered for more flexible use on building or civil engineering construction sites.
This cylindrical-shaped sack gabion is filled to 75% capacity with rock and used in restricted areas or to act as foundation for gabion river structures.
Only need a small retaining wall up to 1.5m height? Why not use local rock with our small 300 x 300mm cross-section Gab-Bloc Gabion?
The smaller Garden Gabion can be used at home for terracing and smaller Gabion retaining walls, or even internal feature/ decorative walls, or raised garden beds.
We offer a custom designed, suited to feature aesthetically pleasing Gabion Planter feature which is sure to turn heads and get lots of interest.
These units are suitable for filling with earth, sand, gravel, crushed rock and other granular materials.
We supply non weathered rock for gabion and rip rap protection and feature structures, many colors are available, size 100-250mm.
We supply a tool kit that makes the installation process much easier and neater.