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[-] MeepMorp@lemmy.world 112 points 10 months ago

This is a legit method for building small things like that where you can use the brick-like shape of the bag when it's hardened. You just need to make sure the concrete gets soaked all the way through with a hose or rain.

https://www.core77.com/posts/80454/An-Easy-Way-to-Build-Retaining-Walls-Leave-the-Concrete-in-the-Bag-Stack-Like-Legos-Wet-With-a-Hose

[-] RattlerSix@lemmy.world 42 points 10 months ago

There's a park on the lake near me that has a retaining wall that steps down into the lake swimming area built this way. The bags are rotted away so they're just concrete pillows now. They're been there at least 20 years

[-] TexasDrunk@lemmy.world 11 points 10 months ago

That's exactly how I built a retaining wall at my last house. It had rotting railroad ties that I got rid of and I just stacked bags of concrete before it rained. The concrete set, the bags degraded, and I had a cool retaining wall in my back yard.

[-] cm0002@lemmy.world 18 points 10 months ago

In like 10 years when the bags have all eroded away it'll also leave a neat look formation I'd bet lol

[-] 667@lemmy.radio 12 points 10 months ago

Lots of revetments for water control in South Florida were built like this in the past. The burlap sacks all eroded away and leave an interesting pattern like you mentioned.

[-] BigPotato@lemmy.world 8 points 10 months ago

A state park near me did this with a giant set of stairs.

Looks neat. Is awful to walk down.

[-] DaddleDew@lemmy.world 90 points 10 months ago* (last edited 10 months ago)
[-] JoMiran@lemmy.ml 33 points 10 months ago

You are a mean person. My sweet little brain had not made that connection, now I can't unsee no matter how much I want to.

[-] DaddleDew@lemmy.world 9 points 10 months ago* (last edited 10 months ago)
[-] NoIWontPickAName@kbin.earth 6 points 10 months ago
[-] everett@lemmy.ml 7 points 10 months ago

You just unlocked an old memory for me, of being a teenager with strong opinions on how evil laughter should be spelled. Thanks for that, I guess!

[-] HonkTonkWoman@lemm.ee 1 points 10 months ago

Or did they call the other poster a “Moo Hoo” before laughing at them?

[-] where_am_i@sh.itjust.works 1 points 10 months ago

if you're too lazy to google, check it out here: https://goatse.ru/

[-] EmoDuck@sh.itjust.works 26 points 10 months ago

I thought you had misspelled goatee

I tried really hard to see a face with a beard in there

I gave up and instead just googled what a goatse is

I regret. I regret so much

[-] Voroxpete@sh.itjust.works 4 points 10 months ago

Honestly, it's refreshing that all these years later goatse has lost none of its power.

[-] everett@lemmy.ml 8 points 10 months ago

It even has fingers.

[-] morphballganon@lemmynsfw.com 3 points 10 months ago

That was my first thought as well

[-] gibmiser@lemmy.world 42 points 10 months ago* (last edited 10 months ago)

Better than what I saw next to the work shed at a large local park...

About 60 bags left out in the rain. Wasted tax dollars

[-] Martineski@lemmy.dbzer0.com 18 points 10 months ago

When I was checking my notifications I was confused as to why would someone send me a pic of a rock formation in the wild and then the horror hit me... 😱

[-] Septimaeus@infosec.pub 2 points 10 months ago

Welcome to Hadrian’s pillow fort. Please state the password.

[-] ashitaka@lemmy.world 25 points 10 months ago

If it’s stupid and it works, is it stupid afterall?

[-] Talaraine@fedia.io 20 points 10 months ago

This is exactly how the bridge on a piece of property I used to live on was built. It lasted 20 years but eventually washed out, while I was there, ofc.

20 years ain't bad.

[-] Aremel@lemmy.world 24 points 10 months ago

Constructed on a Friday at 4:50pm

[-] solsangraal@lemmy.zip 6 points 10 months ago

lol if I started that job right after lunch it wouldn't be done by 5. i don't know the proportions, but it would be partly because I'm out of shape af and partly a lack of rats asses to give

[-] edgemaster72@lemmy.world 20 points 10 months ago
[-] stardustpathsofglory@lemmy.world 14 points 10 months ago

Am I the only one who sees a spread butthole and fingers? Why is this save for work?

[-] edgemaster72@lemmy.world 8 points 10 months ago

You should go to an optometrist, I think you have goatsevision

[-] MindTraveller@lemmy.ca 5 points 10 months ago

Please put an NSFW tag on this. I was on the train and when I saw this I had to start furiously masturbating. Everyone else gave me strange looks and were saying things like “what the fuck” and “call the police”. I dropped my phone and everyone around me saw this image. Now there is a whole train of men masturbating together at this one image. This is all your fault, you could have prevented this if you had just tagged this post NSFW.

[-] TheGiantKorean@lemmy.world 12 points 10 months ago

I goatse what they did there.

[-] ironhydroxide@sh.itjust.works 8 points 10 months ago

What, they needed bag shaped rocks, and they got them.

[-] tilefan@lemm.ee 7 points 10 months ago

concrete: form included

[-] colourlesspony@pawb.social 4 points 10 months ago

I wonder if they left the concrete bags out in the rain and they set into bricks. Then decided to use them anyways.

[-] toofpic@lemmy.world 11 points 10 months ago

Nope, they wouldn't stack nicely. They were put on each other while not being rigid yet

[-] BentiGorlich@gehirneimer.de -1 points 10 months ago

I think that's is called a "temporary" solution 😁

[-] Shawdow194@fedia.io 7 points 10 months ago

Archeologists in 1000yrs

"This construction is as durable as the Romans!"

[-] Lowpast@lemmy.world 7 points 10 months ago

Not temporary at all and works quite well. This is a well known, and common, technique.

[-] tiredofsametab@fedia.io 5 points 10 months ago

As an Engineer (although the IT kind not the structural kind), I can tell you confidently that no solution is more permanent than a temporary solution.

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