The 'Today's Job' thread

[Storrsy]

I gave serious thought to getting the hydraulic one when I got the case, decided against it in the end, can't remember the specific reason now
The job I was doing the other week got me wanting a grapple, picking up a couple of bricks at a time with the thumb was far from ideal, but picking them up by bucket also wasn't suitable. There was a point when it suddenly clicked in my mind 'ahh right, this is why people go for grapples' but again I can't remember specifically what it was

When you say grapple, do you mean one which has an independent ram for opening and closing Vs a braced against the arm arrangement. I've had all 3 and find the hydraulic thumb the most versatile and convenient by far. If your fiddling around picking up stuff like bricks then yes a grapple (like the pic on the 216) is easier as you have the full articulation of the bucket. But again, it's another thing to take to a job and requires changing to it when you need it.

 

[Smiffy]

aye but smiffy doesn't own the ones he does it in

Im only talking about dry mix as per @Storrsy pictures. For kerbs and backfilling trenches.
So just sweep the bed off when finished. Considering how long it takes to get enough moisture into it to lay kerbs I wouldn't like to try making a wet mix. I think you would be quicker with a mini mix.

 

[Storrsy]

Im only talking about dry mix as per @Storrsy pictures. For kerbs and backfilling trenches.
So just sweep the bed off when finished. Considering how long it takes to get enough moisture into it to lay kerbs I wouldn't like to try making a wet mix. I think you would be quicker with a mini mix.

Mine wasn't a dry mix, but yeah imagine it would be right mess trying to do the same in a trailer with it all seeping out through the sides etc

 

[hiluxman]

Im only talking about dry mix as per @Storrsy pictures. For kerbs and backfilling trenches.
So just sweep the bed off when finished. Considering how long it takes to get enough moisture into it to lay kerbs I wouldn't like to try making a wet mix. I think you would be quicker with a mini mix.

Anything more than .25m3 I order in. Well worth it in time, effort, cleanliness, time picking materials up, diesel picking materials up ect ect ect.

 

[Hg2702]

When you say grapple, do you mean one which has an independent ram for opening and closing Vs a braced against the arm arrangement. I've had all 3 and find the hydraulic thumb the most versatile and convenient by far. If your fiddling around picking up stuff like bricks then yes a grapple (like the pic on the 216) is easier as you have the full articulation of the bucket. But again, it's another thing to take to a job and requires changing to it when you need it.

Hydraulic thumb over the grab for me , been loading away concrete today . Perfect with the riddle bucket on

 

[Smiffy]

Anything more than .25m3 I order in. Well worth it in time, effort, cleanliness, time picking materials up, diesel picking materials up ect ect ect.

I don't know about price comparison but their is a ballast bay in the yard. Going through about 20t a week. Pan mixer in the yard if you know you going to use the gear same day but a lot of the work is highways stuff and due to the organisation it's easier to take ballast and cement with you and if you have time to use it then use it and if not then it stays loaded for the next day.
On bigger sites with more time and room then a volumetric will come in.

 

[V8Druid]

Mine wasn't a dry mix, but yeah imagine it would be right mess trying to do the same in a trailer with it all seeping out through the sides etc

was about to say it looked like a wet mix to me in your pic

Im only talking about dry mix as per @Storrsy pictures. For kerbs and backfilling trenches.
So just sweep the bed off when finished. Considering how long it takes to get enough moisture into it to lay kerbs I wouldn't like to try making a wet mix. I think you would be quicker with a mini mix.

 

[Giles]

1m3 delivered now on part load charge is about £320 or more. I was always for the volis but now too expensive like @Gunners said mixer bucket or pan mixer attractive solution

 

[DaveDCB]

uh oh. The base is 3” longer than regulations allow, and here’s a bloke with the rule book arguing the toss with my customers

Not joking !View attachment 44723

Go on then give us all a laugh, what regulations do they have?
I’d just cut it back once it’s gone off if they are that bothered about the crap hole!

 

[doobin]

Yesterdays job was around 6 cube so a volumetric would have been fine. But the customers had already ordered what they thought they needed although massively short. They were going to get me back with the loader to move mix from the wagon instead but I told them I’ve seen the speed they work at and waiting time at £100 an hour on the wagon soon stacks up! Plus if they were going to get me back it wouldn’t be much more to have the big mixer. So we ordered in another half dozen bags of ballast, and all done by three. Colin on the deck shovelling into the mixer didn’t half graft!

Great bunch of lads. Going back for the opening bbq once they’ve laid their porcelain.

 

[doobin]

Go on then give us all a laugh, what regulations do they have?
I’d just cut it back once it’s gone off if they are that bothered about the crap hole!

You can have a patio but no wider than the chalet base. So he was blatantly taking the piss really, but he didn’t want to cut any slabs down. Was no trouble to jam another board into the end- luckily it wasn’t the already laid bit.

Must be all sorts of other regs too- I get the impression it’s very petty. I guess it has to be otherwise there’s anarchy.

I kept meaning to get a photo of my loader pointing the wrong way next to one of the massive ‘strictly one way only’ markings on the road

 

[pettsy]

Colin on the deck shovelling into the mixer didn’t half graft!

Great bunch of lads.

Makes a job so much easier when you’re working with switched on folk who aren’t scared to put a shift in

 

[DaveDCB]

Ah so more site rules then, that’s fair enough to be honest. My parents owned a static caravan site, once one person gets allowed to do as they please everyone follows suit, so you had to be strict!

 

[Furniss]

Afternoon at the yard messing with the new toy.

 

[William127]

Yesterday's jobs- split a bag of logs, take the good wheels off the knackered barrows then tidy up the workshop. Got another couple of filing cabinet drawers filled, found some light clusters for the trailer that I need and a td5 discovery ecu that I didn't know I had and will sell for about 100 quid
The amount of 'stuff' that we end up with is quite frightening at times. Every time I clear up I start imaging having an auction, flogging it all off and doing a runner Especially as I went to a farm sale on Wednesday, so added another couple of bits to the pile

 

[V8Druid]

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Yesterday's jobs- split a bag of logs, take the good wheels off the knackered barrows then tidy up the workshop. Got another couple of filing cabinet drawers filled, found some light clusters for the trailer that I need and a td5 discovery ecu that I didn't know I had and will sell for about 100 quid
The amount of 'stuff' that we end up with is quite frightening at times. Every time I clear up I start imaging having an auction, flogging it all off and doing a runner Especially as I went to a farm sale on Wednesday, so added another couple of bits to the pile

interesting 'rocking' shed

 

[William127]

Just took a mate to pick up a new boat anchor.
Sorry, I Mean Lister and water pump. Bloody heavy so his 50 quid is safe in scrap money

 

[Mogman]

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Yesterday's jobs

what’s the little loader in the back of the shed

 

[William127]

what’s the little loader in the back of the shed

Bw08, generic Chinese special. It's been OK for the money, does what I need but I don't think I'd recommend them
I'd have been better off buying a loader tractor to be honest but it wasn't really an option at the time.
But it does what I need, keeps the place tidy and means I can lift heavy stuff off the trailer
In an ideal world I'd have a Flat cconcrete yard with a forklift and a backhoe loader for the field/loose material, but it's not an ideal world

 

[doobin]