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Jonnyboy

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Posted: Tue Mar 20, 07 10:51 am Post subject: Landscaping - anyone seen this
Drove past this on saturday and took a quick snap or two. I've never seen it before but it looks like a good method of bank retention. It looks like one part is hammered into the bank, or a frame constructed and it's back filled. Anyone seen this before and have an idea on it's construction?

tahir

Joined: 28 Oct 2004
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Location: Essex

Posted: Tue Mar 20, 07 10:54 am Post subject:
Looks nice

Jonnyboy

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Posted: Tue Mar 20, 07 10:54 am Post subject:
Indeed, I'm hoping it will be a lesser cost option than some other methods as well.

Behemoth

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Location: Leeds

Posted: Tue Mar 20, 07 10:55 am Post subject:
I think it's a frame and then back filled but not sure. Looks better than those bales of rocks.

Cathryn

Joined: 16 Jul 2005
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Location: Ceredigion

Posted: Tue Mar 20, 07 11:46 am Post subject:
The one that has been used recentlu by the railway to support banks around each end of a bridge, has had plants rooted into it so it is only a thin layer of rocks behind the wooden retaining fence.

Green Man

Joined: 23 Jul 2006
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Location: Rural Scotland.

Posted: Tue Mar 20, 07 11:52 am Post subject:
What happens when it rots?

Jonnyboy

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Posted: Tue Mar 20, 07 11:53 am Post subject:
Dunno, that's why I'm after some advice.

tahir

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Posted: Tue Mar 20, 07 11:55 am Post subject:

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Tahir, it is called Timbacrib www.keller.ge.co.uk

Don't know much more I am afraid.

Jonnyboy

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Posted: Tue Mar 20, 07 12:20 pm Post subject:
Now we're getting somewhere https://www.phigroup.co.uk/products/rw/permacrib.htm

Jonnyboy

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Posted: Tue Mar 20, 07 12:21 pm Post subject:

tahir wrote:

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Tahir, it is called Timbacrib www.keller.ge.co.uk

Don't know much more I am afraid.

You have good contacts, thanks

tahir

Joined: 28 Oct 2004
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Location: Essex

Posted: Tue Mar 20, 07 12:23 pm Post subject:

Jonnyboy wrote:

You have good contacts

Glad you like em, thought it was about time I got rid of my NHS specs

tahir

Joined: 28 Oct 2004
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Location: Essex

Posted: Tue Mar 20, 07 12:24 pm Post subject:
It's actually www.keller-ge.co.uk

Behemoth

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Location: Leeds

Posted: Tue Mar 20, 07 12:27 pm Post subject:
or here... https://www.phigroup.co.uk/products/rw/permacrib.htm

Jonnyboy

Joined: 29 Oct 2004
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Posted: Tue Mar 20, 07 12:49 pm Post subject:
I've emailed them. I've also found a system which used rammed earth tyres which might be interesting.

cab

Joined: 01 Nov 2004
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Posted: Tue Mar 20, 07 1:00 pm Post subject:
Reminsicent of a raised hedgerow in the South West. You'd hope that plants and eventually trees would root into it, holding the structure together as the timber rots away. May even be worth planting a hedge right on top (and in amongst it) to pin the whole thing together.

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