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On Monday, 3 June 2019 18:58:03 UTC+1, Jim GM4DHJ ... wrote:

Does anyone know what happens to a gabion retaining wall when the
steel baskets have rusted away? Is it meant to have filled up with
enough earth and vegetation by then that it just stays put, maybe
helped by interlocking stones in the fill?



it fails...50 years life...timber retaining walls have 100 years life
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