Can one build a retaining wall with earthbags similar to a retaining wall constructed out of tires?
This is done much easier with earthbags than with tires. Q: I’m planning on building an earthbag garden wall at my house in southern Oregon, maybe fifty feet long, enclosing a small hillside area on three sides. The bags I want to use are 12 inches wide when filled. Is that wide enough if I stack them carefully and bind them well with the barbed wire for a 5 foot wall? (I’d like to make it relatively narrow.) And I suppose I’ll punch in some rebar through the top courses to stabilize it. A: As for bag size, I would think that a 12″ thick, 5′ high wall would be plenty stable. You might want to either make it curved some or provide some buttresses to make to more stable. Also, in areas where it might be bermed on one side, you can lean it into the berm some. Normally rebar stakes are not necessary, but they will do no harm. Q: We are planning to build four small and cheap houses using strawbales. The north wall of the houses will touch the wall of a ground. We are thinking to build a ret
