Tamp it down and fill any gaps between the ties. Based in Atlanta, Valerie Liles has been writing about landscape and garden design since As a registered respiratory therapist, she also has experience in family health, nutrition and pediatric and adult asthma managment. By Valerie Liles. Related Articles.
References Pioneer Sand Co. To remove mold from treated landscape ties, use a fragrance-free dish soap, water and a scrub brush. Wear leather garden or construction gloves to avoid touching chemically treated lumber. Wear a dust mask to avoid inhaling sawdust when drilling or cutting preserved or pretreated wood. You could substitute longer pieces of rebar if your freeze line is actually deeper than 30 inches.
This method doesn't require the pouring of concrete, and due to the fact that the rebar is virtually the same width as the holes, the timbers don't tend to work their way back off. At each corner of the landscape tie dig a shallow footing unless you are in a major freeze heave area then speak with your local landscapers for their recc. Fill the footing with concrete. Drill a hole thru the landscape tie and slip it over the carriage bolts. Drill another hole larger than the hole that slipped over the carriage bolt.
Whe you want to remove the whole shebang, simply unscrew the bolts, lift the landscape ties away and cut off the exposed carriage bolts. At minimum, cut 2' lengths of ties and set them below grade so that the top of them is where you want the bottom of your ties. Ten or twelve inch galvinized twisted twisted nails with no drill holes for pressure treated work pretty well for a DIY job.
Landscape suggestions for home in Chicago suburb!! Need ideas for my crumbling sloped railroad tie stairs. What is the best way to cut 6x6 landscaping ties? Even a 12" mitre saw blade can't cut through 5.
I suppose that the ties could be cut carefully with a chain saw - but I presume that it would create a rather rough cut. A beam saw is the scariest tool I have ever witnessed.
I have never used one personally because I can barely pick it up and balance it at the same time. Usually the chain saw will do an adequate job , and if you need to clean up your cuts you can run a skill saw across your cuts and or a power hand planer.
I have used a wood rasp to clean up the ends if the chain saw operator got a little "off" in the cutting process. We have anchored the 6x's by making a lap cut on the ends and bolting the 6x's together.
This makes the frame a one piece unit. With the lap joint it can only be a square unit unless you do some fancy cutting. It is not secured or anchored in place but just sits where you put it together.
Like "Free standing", Dude!!! No foundation needed, real stable. Great tips but wondering if pressure treated landscaping beams thinner,looks like a 4X4 instead of the 8X8 of a railroad tie and flat on only two sides are applicable to all of these tips too. I picked up these pressure treated beams- well, they look like trees cut flat on two sides, for my kid's playset. The area I am surrounding an irregular area roughly 22X18 with an outtake for the slide Need some advice or a book on how to cut staris into a hill, but use railroad ties as the stairs themselves.
Sunset Books a subset company to the very popular west coast Sunset Magazine has a title called 'Hillside Landscaping' that outlines specifically how to construct wood or railroad tie steps into a slope. Most other DIY landscaping books, often available at the big home improvement stores like Lowes or HD, will have similar step-by-step instructions.
Here is a link that might be useful: Sunset's Hillside Landscaping. Hopefully those kids didn't end up picking up toxics when they walked etc. Nobody mentioned this that I saw skimming this thread. Treatments used are poisonous, that's how they keep the wood from rotting - for awhile anyway. Railroad ties in particular are ghastly, being treated with sticky malodorous creosote containing over toxic compounds. CCA wood apparently just about bleeds arsenic.
Understand situation is existing stocks can still be sold, even though it has been realized they are too nasty to keep making new ones. Maybe by now these are unlikely to be encountered at outlets. Anyway, roofing paper or other resilient protective layer needs to be attached to exposed surfaces of such to eliminate direct contact with users.
Here is a link that might be useful: CCA wood. I've used these as a small raised garden bed at my mothers house about 6 years ago. I have learned more as I go but found that the best way to build a 3 layer wall is to:. Then drill them to the wall to help maintain their shape to hold what you fill it with. I Then stained the wood to match the exterior of my mother's house and was all done.
Now, looking back, I wish I knew to do this myself. But, you learn as you go. I just fixed up the wall this year on Mother's Day for her and it looks as good a new where I hadn't connected the corners with the rebar. Good luck. I plan on replacing some rotted out timbers. Any suggestions on how I a homeowner can remove timbers that are secured with 2 or 3 feet of rebar? Indem Sie weiterhin auf der Website surfen bzw. Mehr erfahren. Small-Space Living. Kitchen and Dining Seating.
Living Room and Entryway Seating. Sign In. Remove the turf with a shovel. You can transplant healthy turf to another area; otherwise, shake off as much soil as possible from the roots to make the turf much lighter and compost or discard the grass plants.
Remove all weeds and other organic material from the bed area. Prepare the ground at the edge of the border planting so that it is ready to receive the landscape timber edging. Use a shovel, a steel rake, or a garden hoe to dig out rocks, roots, and other obstructions along the edging's path. Walk over the loosened soil to pack it down. Add soil, as needed, to bring the area up to the proper level, then pack it down again.
Make sure the soil is firmly packed to prevent settling. Check for level as you go, using a carpenter's level or a straight board. The ground does not have to be exactly level according to a level; it must be flat and level with the surrounding area. Install landscape fabric, if desired, to prevent weed and grass growth. This is a good idea if the bed or other area beyond the edging will be covered with rock, mulch, or other ground cover.
Roll out the fabric over the soil and position it so it is even with the mason's line; you will install the timbers on top of the fabric. Secure the fabric with landscape fabric staples driven with a hand sledge or hammer. If you want your landscape fabric to last and to suppress weeds effectively , choose a commercial-grade spun fabric. These materials are much tougher than plastic and let water and air pass through, allowing the soil to breathe.
Lay out straight timbers along the full length of the edging, butting their ends together. If the final straight piece will be shorter than about 2 feet, shift the entire row of timbers so that the two ends will have cut pieces of roughly equal length. Position the full-length timbers accurately along the edging line. Join neighboring timbers with pairs of galvanized mending plates and 2-inch deck screws. Drive the screws with a drill fitted with a screwdriver bit.
If the screws are difficult to drive, drill pilot holes before installing the screws. When you reach one end of the edging run, mark the last piece for cutting at the desired length. Cut the marked timber to length, using a miter saw , if you have one; otherwise, you can use a hand saw or a reciprocating saw. Join the cut piece to the end of the row with mending plates, as before.
Repeat the same process at the other end of the straight row. Cut more straight pieces, as needed, to make degree turns. Join the pieces at each corner with a galvanized corner brace and screws, as with the mending plates.
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