The first company Maccaferri gabion structures were designed in 1893 to strengthen the banks of the River Reno in Kasalechio. Today the company Maccaferri market leader in the production of gabions and gabion mattresses.
What is the gabions, and how they can be useful to subsistence farming?
Gabion supporting structures - rectangular baskets from galvanized steel wire, which is filled with stones or construction waste to form a monolithic, not sealed structures such as gabion walls to support slopes, roads, embankments.
Another of the applications of gabions to control erosion of river banks and dams. For these purposes, gabions made of special double twisted wire made of galvanized steel. At the edges and across the gabion basket enhanced special reinforced with wire. This allows the wire to support the design, even at breaks.
Installation of gabions is relatively simple, does not require specially trained people, gabions can be filled out any stones and building waste. Gabion walls in comparison with other designs require less space for mounting on a vertical surface. Gabions are freely drained elements, they do not retain water in itself.
One type of gabion structures - gabion mats. Their function is the same, protect against erosion, river banks, canals, creeks. The difference is that the design size is 30 meters.
The base of such mats is divided into parts, which are gradually filled with stones. Cover close, and gabion canvas becomes a monolithic, flexible design, which is also freely permeable.
Excavation bioengineering technology for growing plants on the gabion mattresses, because they remain up to 30% of free space that you can use for planting and decorating the river banks.
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