Furniss
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Did u get a brush then ?
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DaveDCB
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Not yet… any recommendations? @Mogman is the Digbits one any good?
Furniss
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No ive resisted a brush as yet.
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6feetdown
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Me too, the Digbits 1 seems to be the cheapest but looks a lot narrower
CPS
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Something slightly different today, piped up this vibrating mole plough for a local lad.
Thomas7740
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Started a new job in Belfast today, breaking concrete out before starting trenches for archaeologists. Didn’t take long to start finding stuff, found 4 of these just below the concrete, reckon they are .303s
CPS
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Do you really want your fingerprints on them? 🫣
TiltyShaun
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DaveDCB
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My only concern was the brush part is wooden, not sure how long it would last when it gets wet etc?
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Stroppymonkey
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That has got to be the perfect work - no rush and interesting and actually looking to find stuff to dig up - whereas usually trying to avoid it.
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DaveDCB
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Hondas stupid idea of auto choke which solely relies on this part…. 
£28!!!
£28!!!
Furniss
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DaveDCB
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You know we are already in 2024 right?
Left hooker
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Well today's job went out the window 
Ment to have been finishing off the turf cutting disk I am modifying to make it better than the current lashed up in 5 mins version I've been using for ages due to no time to do it
Went to cut the disk out and ran out of oxygen so off I went on the return heard stuff hitting underside of fourtrak noticed the brake had gone stiff to push made it back to yard to find alt belt disintegrated ordered new one attempted to pick up from where I left off earlier while waiting for new belt
Not more than half hour in get phone call lorrys air seat pipe has popped off and auxiliary air is dumping out in the cab but won't go back on
Looked at another Scania in yard tried to see if Scania had part but found out it's a complete air seat pipe kit and not in stock and one on other lorry wasn't coming off to get other lorry up and running so made a blank with some 6mm pipe and a straight joiner from what we had in yard
And off I went in spare lorry to swap over with driver
Got the air back up and running after half hour driving to the tip site to swap over and driver left with other lorry
My back felt every bump/hole in the road on the way back decided to call in hydroscand to see if they could make anything up to repair it rather than replace it as next port of call was to stop in at Scania to order parts
Luck would have it they had a way to repair it for under a fiver unlike the complete kit from Scania for 120 plus vat
Got back yard all was sweet as a nut so that was sorted
Turned my attention to the fourtrak and father decided to throw a curve ball in and wanted to move the 18t from ours to a job site ready for week after next as on holiday next week so now not finished fourtrak yet raced like mad to get pass belt off to get new alt belt on and put everything back on like fan and air intake
Get the trailer out and loaded with boards to run track on so not to chew up the road outside of site then fill bowser up go down to our land outside of village and rush to fuel up and dig tracks out ready for low loader to turn up as was ment to be there any minute
Got it all done and wait and wait and wait only to get phone call not coming now as they hadn't fixed trailer in time
So go back yard and try to get back into doing the project turf cutter only to find counter sunk M10 bolts were too short that I sent my uncle for while I was sorting lorry out this morning the bolt place gave me bolts that were 25mm total when I had written down 25mm thread needed
Can say today I wish I stayed in bed
Ment to have been finishing off the turf cutting disk I am modifying to make it better than the current lashed up in 5 mins version I've been using for ages due to no time to do it
Went to cut the disk out and ran out of oxygen so off I went on the return heard stuff hitting underside of fourtrak noticed the brake had gone stiff to push made it back to yard to find alt belt disintegrated ordered new one attempted to pick up from where I left off earlier while waiting for new belt
Not more than half hour in get phone call lorrys air seat pipe has popped off and auxiliary air is dumping out in the cab but won't go back on
Looked at another Scania in yard tried to see if Scania had part but found out it's a complete air seat pipe kit and not in stock and one on other lorry wasn't coming off to get other lorry up and running so made a blank with some 6mm pipe and a straight joiner from what we had in yard
And off I went in spare lorry to swap over with driver
Got the air back up and running after half hour driving to the tip site to swap over and driver left with other lorry
My back felt every bump/hole in the road on the way back decided to call in hydroscand to see if they could make anything up to repair it rather than replace it as next port of call was to stop in at Scania to order parts
Luck would have it they had a way to repair it for under a fiver unlike the complete kit from Scania for 120 plus vat
Got back yard all was sweet as a nut so that was sorted
Turned my attention to the fourtrak and father decided to throw a curve ball in and wanted to move the 18t from ours to a job site ready for week after next as on holiday next week so now not finished fourtrak yet raced like mad to get pass belt off to get new alt belt on and put everything back on like fan and air intake
Get the trailer out and loaded with boards to run track on so not to chew up the road outside of site then fill bowser up go down to our land outside of village and rush to fuel up and dig tracks out ready for low loader to turn up as was ment to be there any minute
Got it all done and wait and wait and wait only to get phone call not coming now as they hadn't fixed trailer in time
So go back yard and try to get back into doing the project turf cutter only to find counter sunk M10 bolts were too short that I sent my uncle for while I was sorting lorry out this morning the bolt place gave me bolts that were 25mm total when I had written down 25mm thread needed
Can say today I wish I stayed in bed
William127
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Weather playing games again here, forecast completely wrong. Didn't bother going to site due to predicted rain, went to the yard, split a few crates of logs, brilliant sunshine ffs 
At least I got to fire up a couple of tractors and fork a couple of pallets onto my new shelf but I'm getting a bit fed up with rain now, and predictions of it which are then wrong
At least I got to fire up a couple of tractors and fork a couple of pallets onto my new shelf but I'm getting a bit fed up with rain now, and predictions of it which are then wrong
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Storrsy
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Having been house bound due to weather I'm also threatening to pull our kitchen out- been meaning to do it the last 14 years!
Furniss
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This isnt the house we live in - our house needs doing too aparantly ......roll on the sunshine, I hate diy
Ours was new in only 2004 ffs !
JD450A
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I've rung you twice to see if you wanted brekky
Furniss
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So clients didnt like the rock idea so we're doing 3 walls out of slate slabs - sleepers - slate posts as per photos below.
First 2 lifts will have a set of steps in and the rest will be made of mix of uprights slate and sleepers, ground is slate/stone that will be hard going, the height will be about 1.2m high and we are planning to order 2m lengths of everything and get as much as poss concreted in as poss, ripper should come in to pull trench, then back them with product below
Question is ...any tips for the job, setting out etc they are fair lumps so we will need a pretty efficient way of going about it, dont wont a lot of double handling and messing...as per useful any usual advice very welcome
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