We’ve just completed a great looking gabion revetment wall in Pretoria for Steinmuller who do all the steel pipework for Eskom’s power plants to be re-commissioned in Mpumulanga soon.
The wall designed was to be a height of 6m with a length of 440m.
However, funds were short and eventually, after cost cutting exercises, the final wall was erected to a height of 5m by 105m long.
This work was undertaken by about 14 persons with a TLB to help load the rock quicker from stockpile directly into the baskets, achieving about 1.5 – 2.0m³ per man per day with machine help to lift the rock to the higher levels.
Normally, gabion works allow 1m³/man/day for installation purposes. A total quantity of 540m³ of gabion walling was installed on this site.
The wall base was founded to a depth of 0.5m passive toe resistance in front of the wall with a pathway in front of it.
The gabion facing was rotated into the embankment with a 4-degree batter slope to further enhance stability of the wall.
The walls base width was 1.5m for the first two gabion levels with subsequent layers of 1x1m.
We allowed for a 400mm horizontal step on each level at every metre change in height.
Gabion construction work was undertaken by the highly experienced team of Mr Reg Laskey from Littlecreek Civils, with Gabion Baskets assisting with the initial designs and price estimates and the final supply of gabion, geotextile and geogrid materials to site.
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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.