The 'Today's Job' thread

doobin

doobin

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And a nice little earner last Thursday afternoon in the pissing wet. Rush job of 3.8m beams for a local builder for Saturday. £650 the lot and all the boards were spare offcuts!Plus two bulk bags of firewood from the scabs. Love my sawmill- he’s given me another list of stuff to cut.
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Lancs Lad

Lancs Lad

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William127

William127

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And a nice little earner last Thursday afternoon in the pissing wet. Rush job of 3.8m beams for a local builder for Saturday. £650 the lot and all the boards were spare offcuts!Plus two bulk bags of firewood from the scabs. Love my sawmill- he’s given me another list of stuff to cut. View attachment 56374View attachment 56375View attachment 56376View attachment 56377
Great job, great mill set up. I've got to get more use out of mine, going to give serious thought to setting it up more like that, much more user friendly. 👍
It's getting an outing this weekend, but if its as frozen as it was today I'll take advantage of that and get as much timber out the woods as possible, rather than taking the mill to the timber.
 
V8Druid

V8Druid

do it as well as you can,but learn to do it better
And a nice little earner last Thursday afternoon in the pissing wet. Rush job of 3.8m beams for a local builder for Saturday. £650 the lot and all the boards were spare offcuts!Plus two bulk bags of firewood from the scabs. Love my sawmill- he’s given me another list of stuff to cut. View attachment 56374View attachment 56375View attachment 56376View attachment 56377
you're never going to be short of work with your broad spectrum of 'can do' attitudes and services, fair play :love: ..... "all grist to the mill" ... and fills the coffers :cool:
 
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Keif

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The last firebreak maintenance contractors on this site just ran a topper over it, left half of it missed and the other half as a pile of tinder…

The last fencing contractors hit the height barrier and ‘repaired it’ with bolts, before someone else hit it again.

We’ve done an awesome job in half the time cutting and collecting the firebreaks, and repaired the height barrier professionally between 5pm last night and 9am this morning for a very reasonable £250 plus vat. It’s a popular car park, we blocked the entrance for twenty minutes and had a queue of middle class old folk stretching down the road like the tip on a Sunday morning🤣

Recession? Bring it on. Sort the wheat from the chaff. Loads more tractor and digger work to do for this wildlife trust, plenty more metalwork too I’m sure. And the phone ringing off the hook for other work.

No new tractor yet…. But I’m not driving so I don’t care 🤣View attachment 56359View attachment 56360View attachment 56361View attachment 56362View attachment 56363View attachment 56364View attachment 56365
I've never seen a gate like that before..

What is the purpose of the height restriction?
 
Lancs Lad

Lancs Lad

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I think he needs his own ‘special’ section of the forum to discuss foldaway sinks and disposable toilet issues 😉
Living round here I detest them...the only satisfaction I get in summer is seeing them on their side or in bits spread across the M6...feel like chalking them up on the sun visor...
The living the dream sticker and a dashboard the size of dining room table 😒🫣
And seriously why hire one when you struggle to drive a micra in staines but decide to take one of the ugliest contraptions over the passes FFS .
Then spend £75 k on one but won't pay in a proper camp site and hog all the lay-bys etc ..arrrgh.
Bring in more height restrictions.

Sorry ...🫣🫣 Rant over happy Friday
 
TiltyShaun

TiltyShaun

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Stroppymonkey

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Living round here I detest them...the only satisfaction I get in summer is seeing them on their side or in bits spread across the M6...feel like chalking them up on the sun visor...
The living the dream sticker and a dashboard the size of dining room table 😒🫣
And seriously why hire one when you struggle to drive a micra in staines but decide to take one of the ugliest contraptions over the passes FFS .
Then spend £75 k on one but won't pay in a proper camp site and hog all the lay-bys etc ..arrrgh.
Bring in more height restrictions.

Sorry ...🫣🫣 Rant over happy Friday
Mine is a MK7 Transit LWB high roof with 185 BHP. Youre talking about Motorhomes.... Mine will fit pretty much anywhere (apart from under height restrictions) You wont see us camping in a layby either. 104 nights away in last 3 years and supporting local economies rather than flying around.
 
V8Druid

V8Druid

do it as well as you can,but learn to do it better
The council put them on main local car park (pictured here before they were added) but then allowed a temporary site in one corner 2 years ago so virtually pointless 🤦🏻‍♂️

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the big car park outside my yard used to be invaded by pikies twice a year ... morning noon and night I would ring the local office asking when they were moving them ... usually cost thousands to shift and clear up after them ... I offered to make them SUBSTANTIAL height barriers FOC, it they planted them ... never took the offer up ... but spent thousands twice a year shifting and clearing up after the bas*rds ... 🤬 🤬
 
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