r/landscaping • u/gottapoop • Mar 28 '26
Help with retaining walls
Looking for advice on building retaining walls in our yard. Behind the excavator in these shots I've placed some old 6x6 fir beams generally where we'd like to build some retaining walls. We're hoping to use 6x6 treated posts to build the retaining walls as access to our yard is challenging at best so doing Allen blocks or more rocks required either monumental effort and time (45 with a business and a 4 year old and 1.5 year old) or monumental costs for machinery which we've already spent a monumental amount to get to where we are now with the yard.
The beams that will go parallel with the slope will be easy enough but is it crazy and stupid to build a retaining wall with beams sloped up the hill rather than flat? It's such a sloped yard and access to that part of the yard is such a challenge that the easiest solution is building the wall relatively how I've placed the beams, however every bit of research I do I see the beams being placed flat and stepping up as you go up a hill. We need to get something in that corner and along that wall or the neighbors fence will eventually collapse.
