Gabion baskets

[davejura]

One of our problems is we can't get an artic to the site, so that puts delivery costs of everything up! SE looked into the lego blocks, and the way they specified them it was going to be silly money. Rock armour was going to be our easiest and cheapest solution, but that got killed by the engineer, so we are stuck with gabions. Got a really good price from Macaferri (£50 for a 2m x 1m x 1m welded 4mm) but they have now gone back on their original delivery quote, and tried to up it from £150 to £720! I suppose I need to get used to things like this happening!

The retaining is for a parking area and eventually a garage by the way. House will be "upside down", entry to the first floor via a bridge.

[scottishjohn]

that why i say maybe make your own lego ones

 you could stick nice rock into top face or make patterns  on it  --so they look pretty  

sure you can get a tipper truck with bulk concrete mix  to site - or tote bags 

make one a day  ? for  a bit less  than price of an empty gabion basket ?

or buy 2 moulds and make 2 a day --then sell moulds on later --to me possibly .LOL