The 'Today's Job' thread

[Furniss]

find a friendly farmer

Nah ... - I think because landscaping is part of my registration it would be easy enough to get hold of but stopped using it when the ban came in ...few years ago now.

 

[V8Druid]

Gave in to the urge and bought these. Seller was a gent and quided me in, then ran escort for me on the narrow lanes back out. 2500mm plus the ratchet straps sticking out so just legal. (I think)
Had to pay attention on the A30 through roadworks.

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weighbridge deck plates ?? 'kin heavy if they were

 

[Stroppymonkey]

weighbridge deck plates ?? 'kin heavy if they were

Nope. 3m x 2.5m x 40mm plastic ground boards. 300kg each. Apparantly £1000 each new? Will use 3 of them for pratting around with the new shed build over the next year or so, to help keep things up out of the mud in strategic locations. One of them I will cut into 1m x 2.5 strips for going out on little jobs that need something heavier than my floppy 12mm boards.

 

[Storrsy]

many years ago they filmed an episode of casualty just outside Aber ... were told the field they'd set up their BIG man lift/cherry picker in was not suitable, without a hell of a lot more mats than they put down for the jacks ... sadly one man died when it took a lie down with about 100ft of arm up ... went to look at uprighting it with a crane but declined to get bogged .... went over 'cos the two R/H/S riggers simply sank into the alluvial flood mud from the river 30 ft away -- they were told

Somewhat ironic set of circumstances

Unlawful killing verdict on man who died in cherrypicker fall

David Coles, 35, fell from a light gantry when the platform toppled over on soft ground. He had been working for the BBC at the filming of a road accident

www.constructionnews.co.uk

 

[V8Druid]

Somewhat ironic set of circumstances

Unlawful killing verdict on man who died in cherrypicker fall

David Coles, 35, fell from a light gantry when the platform toppled over on soft ground. He had been working for the BBC at the filming of a road accident

www.constructionnews.co.uk

that's the one

 

[Giles]

Rocked up to new job,

Old walled garden will be cleared for you to use as a compound….. erm no it hasn’t so day 1 make some room.

Hire machine bucket has cutting edge worn back to bucket so edge is like 80mm thick useless so getting my 5 ton bucket from yard in morning.

Made a make shift brush with grab, playing at being an “arb digger” lol

 

[V8Druid]

Rocked up to new job,

Old walled garden will be cleared for you to use as a compound….. erm no it hasn’t so day 1 make some room.

Hire machine bucket has cutting edge worn back to bucket so edge is like 80mm thick useless so getting my 5 ton bucket from yard in morning.

Made a make shift brush with grab, playing at being an “arb digger” lol

and you're doing all this to ............?
plant trees ?????

 

[Giles]

and you're doing all this to ............?
plant trees ?????

No it’s to be our compound, welfare , parking material drop, waste holding/transfer to wagons etc

 

[DaveDCB]

That’s a decent old walled garden!!

Have they just kept adding wear edges to that bucket at least it’s straight..

 

[Canal Navvy]

That bucket looks to have been made that way........
.. one way to discourage hirers from just using the "biggest" Bucket for everything

 

[Giles]

That’s a decent old walled garden!!

Have they just kept adding wear edges to that bucket at least it’s straight..

It’d be great at cleaning up on grass etc but I need to finely peel self binding gravel off 1200m2 paths.

Yeah it’s lovely and full renovation of it being talked of in future.

 

[Giles]

That bucket looks to have been made that way........
.. one way to discourage hirers from just using the "biggest" Bucket for everything

Bolt on edge underneath just worn back to buckets welded in edge then through use rounded like that

 

[groundworker]

Bolt on edge underneath just worn back to buckets welded in edge then through use rounded like that

That picture had me confused, I thought I was looking at a length of 4 inch pipe laying on the ground and couldn't understand why you'd post that??

 

[Stroppymonkey]

Yesterday’s job was putting some agri spec footings in for a small retaining wall ready for the slab for my container workshop. Been a very long time since I worked on footings. Probably over 20 years of plumbing since then .

 

[Furniss]

Is it just me who often thinks halfway through the day that its a good job we have no idea whats coming our way when we're pulling our socks on

 

[Furniss]

Tank replacement.....Quelle bordel

 

[6feetdown]

So we are doing a tank above grd that is having fusion weld pipe.
Absolute ballache ½ order turned up then discovered part of other ½ del few days earlier. Went back Wednesday to dry fit it all and valve not there. Eventually found valve 90mm bore we ordered, this turned up 300mm ffs!
So far 2 days lost due to idiots, had confirmation after dinner yesterday new valve not in stock in uk so shipping from Switzerland 1 to 3 days. Had a phone call this morning from my neighbour at yard, valve turned up less than 24 hr from Switzerland!

 

[JD450A]

So we are doing a tank above grd that is having fusion weld pipe.
Absolute ballache ½ order turned up then discovered part of other ½ del few days earlier. Went back Wednesday to dry fit it all and valve not there. Eventually found valve 90mm bore we ordered, this turned up 300mm ffs!
So far 2 days lost due to idiots, had confirmation after dinner yesterday new valve not in stock in uk so shipping from Switzerland 1 to 3 days. Had a phone call this morning from my neighbour at yard, valve turned up less than 24 hr from Switzerland!

Try Woodside fusion

 

[6feetdown]

Try Woodside fusion

I will bear that in mind if we do another

 

[Simon edwards]

Bit of Saturday surfacing,to be fair we just prepped it all yesterday and oversaw the job today.