Concrete Bag Culvert Wall
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- Опубліковано 12 вер 2024
- We put a stop to our erosion problem with just a few concrete bags! This will keep our culverts and driveway all intact while giving it a cool look.
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Bad ass! the only thing I would've done different is adding one horizontal rebar tied into the other three.... Honestly never thought of doing this and I love this idea, thank you for sharing.
A quick update would be great!
Thanks for posting this! I'm fixing to do a driveway entrance and a retaining wall on the edge of my property where my Creek runs next to it, this will help me immensely .again ,thanks for taking the time to make this video 👍
Great idea. My front culvert got washed out again last week. We had 11 inches of rain in 2 hours here in Northwest Arkansas. I'm looking for ideas and yours was pretty good.
This is a year old video but for those watching in the future...
Using barbed wire between the layers of bags of concrete REALLY keeps them from shifting or rotating around the rebar which I have seen happen in West Texas. [Or use more rebar than the three you used, like double, 2 per instead of the one as you did it]
Lacing two passes of barbed wire between each layer of bags keeps high water pressure from dislodging and collapsing the retaining wall.
Barbed wire? what??? How about some rebar ties lol
@@scottcoleman7304 it's a standard technique for earth bag and Sackrete construction. The barbs pierce the bag and lodge into the material and keep them from sliding around out of position. Rebar works BUT there's a tendency for the hardened Sackrete to rotate around a rebar stake in heavy flooding conditions unless you put two stakes in at 1/3 in on both ends.
I haven't looked for them but I bet there's instructional videos on UA-cam on the way it's best done.
Awesome job, and video. I love the looks of this for a retaining wall.
Thank you! We are very happy with it as well.
Pretty good idea. Hope it holds up for you.
We’re happy how it turned out, it’s been holding really well. Only time will tell🙂
Please do a follow up video next spring I'm intrigued by this design. Thanks
Yes sir, we will do a follow up for everyone to see.👍🏻 It’s holding up very well.
A 22-pound bag cost here in New Zealand US$6.25 …
New subscriber here from Facebook! Great vid!
Thank you!🙂
Fine job young man👏🏻
Thank you very much!
That kid is Buddy Holly. Wait till you hear him sing. Country rd, take me home. Lol
This looks great.
I just subscribed.
Thank you! It was a fun project that serves a great purpose.😃
Good job
This is miraculous!! Thank you
looks really good
Thank you!🙂
By keeping the concrete in the bags, there are gaps between the bags, resulting in less strength and through which water can pass. If you had mixed the concrete and poured it as a monolithic structure it would be much stronger and water would not leak through. But if the water hitting these individual blocks is not too strong, it may work.
Hi Bill,
We just got 3.5” of rain in a single day, everything is holding up very well. I’m very pleased with how the culvert walls are holding up. For the cost and simple process it’s worked for us.
Bill concrete lile this doesnt stop water so those gaps are ok also hes tied it with rebar the only mistake made was not pounding 2ft of rebar into the ground first to lay the first bags on this method is quite common
@@nicholasfontaine4305 rebar straight into ground will rust back up into the concrete
it rusts and expands and cracks the concrete open eventually
rebar must be fully enclosed, add 10 years to its life
Looks cool never seen that done before but I bet it’s expensive using all them bags? Also are they fully solid or just the top and outsides of the block. Basically is the middle still powder??
I'm assuming the bags eventually decompose and you are left with concrete looking blocks?
Correct! We took our paper off the bags after a couple of rains.
So, how has it held up. I'm about to replace a 36" culvert and am thinking about it.
Looks awesome , roughly how much did you have in this project ? Looking for options for my creek crossing .
Awesome. Thanks.
I want to see what it looks like when all the papers are gone. Update? 🙏🏼
Hope you drove some rebar through the middle of those bags
Looks cool but you don't get a good mix with the concrete and you don't have good vertical stability. Won't last as long as it could done better.
So do you just get them wet after you put them down?
Left lots of gaps for water to get around concrete, it’ll still wash out over time………
What size are those culvert's?
If I remember correctly they are 36” x 18’
Waste of money, the bags need to be mixed thoroughly if you want to achieve durability/ longevity. I have pictures that prove that over time they start to crumble. Concrete always needs to be mixed!!
Except that the bags do not bind to one another this way....could have just stacked bricks...
Are you using plastic culverts?
Yes, HDPE Corrugated pipe. Holding up very well!
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Dude, get a real sledge hammer for that! A claw hammer?! Makes me tired thinking about it!
It was a good workout! 💪🏻
Burn that paper off
Oh man, I think you need to get yourself a pickup truck before you destroy that little car transporting all of your project gear.
I find this amusing because it is all sorts of wrong. The bags of concrete will become blocks of concrete and water will easily pass through them eroding the areas around the culverts. It is called piping. This could be avoided using geotextile fabric and riprap or wingwalls+riprap. Nice effort though.
I also don't see this lasting long. I am about to fix my culvert erosion with soil liners and large rock plus some concrete.
"Structural" Nah. Not even a little bit.
What a waste of money! Concrete bags? Really?