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derbyshiredowser
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Slim
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Mistress Rose
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jema Downsizer Moderator
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dpack
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Posted: Mon Jun 22, 20 8:18 am Post subject: |
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i wonder if you could get a small piling rig down there?
piles are good in a civils sense
a deep narrow hole, a few bits of metal, shuttering, poured concrete, a wobble and you have stability and a pad to mount a fence and deck(or the shard) upon
nice if it needs it. it probably does not.
it could be done
when you find the boundary line and floor, tis time to poke holes along the edge to see what it is made of
the slope is steep but looks fairly stable going by random posts that are not skiing downhill and the oak looks very stable, that is good
i would mean you only need to stabilize the edge of the property to stop your bit sliding onto that slope to the marsh
a bit like avalanches if different layers are on a slope upper ones can slide at low friction junctions
i have lived on good and bad slopes(and seen and fixed bad ones), the lower part of this from house level to marsh looks basically good but the original garden creation was less than perfect in stability.
i suspect they levelled to give a "platform" style landscape over the original natural slope using earth from the foundation trenches, maybe topsoil, bits of whatever was knocking about etc
poke and tell ain't just for the tabloids
im on a roll this morning:lol:
ps it looks better than i had expected from seeing it from above |
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jema Downsizer Moderator
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jema Downsizer Moderator
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jema Downsizer Moderator
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derbyshiredowser
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dpack
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jema Downsizer Moderator
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dpack
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Mistress Rose
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Posted: Tue Jun 23, 20 6:28 am Post subject: |
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You could plant a hedge at the bottom and lay it, or get someone else to lay it. Once it has grown, it will be cow proof if layed correctly, and can be kept neat by trimming, or allowed to grow and form a screen. It will tend to bind the soil together too. Suitable species for laying are hawthorn, and hazel. If you want to have a trimmed, rather than layed hedge, then beech is good as it retains its leaves and can get quite dense with time, but would suggest a layable hedge. Don't put too many spikey things in it for wildlife interest, as it tends to attack anyone laying the hedge, and apart from that, it looks as if bramble will colonise anyway. |
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jema Downsizer Moderator
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Posted: Tue Jun 23, 20 7:09 am Post subject: |
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Mistress Rose wrote: |
You could plant a hedge at the bottom and lay it, or get someone else to lay it. Once it has grown, it will be cow proof if layed correctly, and can be kept neat by trimming, or allowed to grow and form a screen. It will tend to bind the soil together too. Suitable species for laying are hawthorn, and hazel. If you want to have a trimmed, rather than layed hedge, then beech is good as it retains its leaves and can get quite dense with time, but would suggest a layable hedge. Don't put too many spikey things in it for wildlife interest, as it tends to attack anyone laying the hedge, and apart from that, it looks as if bramble will colonise anyway. |
That pretty much was the original plot. You can see hedging in some of the pictures.
The idea was essentially lose the fence and have hedging and terrace down towards the marsh at the deck end following the lie of the land. Don't care what happens about the deck.
I do like building stuff though and as you can see from the thread had let that instinct to do something fancy take over.
The demolition though is confirming the original logic that picking winnable battles further up where the ground allows it is a good thing, fighting nature where the ground is poor is Canute like. |
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dpack
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