The 'Today's Job' thread

[V8Druid]

View attachment 68248Passed on way home tonight ...I thought my jenson was a proper chipper View attachment 68249

Oooh - one of them beasts - Bet you had to turn the radio up passing that - van on trailer illegal in the UK

 

[V8Druid]

A contractor I use (who has become a mate) has 3 of those Albachs - they were £750k each but I think they are more now! He was filling ADTs in 4 and a half minutes on this job, will do a walking floor artic in under 20 mins…

WHAT A WEAPON !!!!

 

[Monkeybusiness]

Oooh - one of them beasts - Bet you had to turn the radio up passing that - van on trailer illegal in the UK

Plenty of these setups tow a low loader trailer with a big bowser and a truck to get home in in the UK - might not be legal but I doubt many coppers actually know what rules apply to these machines!

 

[Furniss]

 

[V8Druid]

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filter bed?

 

[Simon edwards]

The usual scratchy start to the year, mostly sorting out jobs and organising trades on a long running contract for a regular customer,I unofficially run his building projects whilst doing all the groundwork’s and landscaping,’ unofficially ‘as I don’t want the hassle but don’t mind helping him out ,done my time building houses! A bit of pool messingaboutery last couple of days.

 

[6feetdown]

Had to have archaeologist on this so little slow going but 2 different 1s and they were both tidy guys.
Bit of underpinning outer section going to be awkward as the boiler is staying at the moment. Concrete this afternoon volumetric had a problem but good old Avant shipped it in about 60m from the road

 

[V8Druid]

Had to have archaeologist on this so little slow going but 2 different 1s and they were both tidy guys.
Bit of underpinning outer section going to be awkward as the boiler is staying at the moment. Concrete this afternoon volumetric had a problem but good old Avant shipped it in about 60m from the road
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interestingly 'stoney' ground under the surface? .. old rough cobbled yard 'praps??

 

[Storrsy]

Had to have archaeologist on this so little slow going but 2 different 1s and they were both tidy guys.
Bit of underpinning outer section going to be awkward as the boiler is staying at the moment. Concrete this afternoon volumetric had a problem but good old Avant shipped it in about 60m from the road
View attachment 68346

Had to have archaeologist on this so little slow going but 2 different 1s and they were both tidy guys.
Bit of underpinning outer section going to be awkward as the boiler is staying at the moment. Concrete this afternoon volumetric had a problem but good old Avant shipped it in about 60m from the road
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What's the find in pic 5?

 

[6feetdown]

interestingly 'stoney' ground under the surface? .. old rough cobbled yard 'praps??

Nothing in there close to a churchyard so made to use 1, cost approx £1500.00. Rock about 400mm down. Ironically they waved the requirement for demolishing the wall. 18" lintel over the door was not built into the wall, just sat on the head of the frame!

 

[6feetdown]

What's the find in pic 5?

Didn't realise that was in! The Guy we are doing job for Sent him pic with archaeologist said we had found a pot. Told him job was on stop when he rang the archaeologist was in on it too, as he's on phone made out my mate dropped it

 

[Storrsy]

It's interesting when you walk around old churchyards that the paths are nearly always sunken in the oldest parts, centuries of thousand of burials/bodies increases the height of the surrounding ground.

 

[DaveDCB]

Didn't realise that was in! The Guy we are doing job for Sent him pic with archaeologist said we had found a pot. Told him job was on stop when he rang the archaeologist was in on it too, as he's on phone made out my mate dropped it

Well that was worth the £1500 for that one haha

 

[doobin]

Finally got the grab fitted. What a lovely bit of kit- so delicate even for its size.

 

[Monkeybusiness]

Finally got the grab fitted. What a lovely bit of kit- so delicate even for its size.

Have you changed you mind re the tilty on that machine?

 

[doobin]

Have you changed you mind re the tilty on that machine?

Fking thing turned up and it was S50! Not S45 as stated. So it went back and I'll wait for an s45 to turn up. It would have needed a bit of faff and ££ spent four piping it too. If I'd not already have gotten the top hitch fitted and all the s45 hitches made I might have persevered. I also considered changing the top of the tilty to s45 and having seperate s50 buckets for under it. But all faff, when an s45 tilty four pipe will turn up eventually.

And to be honest, I think I was kidding myself that a tilty would be good enough for running a grab under for my type of work. Without the angled headstock a grab is just useless for me. All the work I I have in the diary for it so far is tree and scrub clearance, with a bit of ditching.

This rotator is braked and has a second pair of ports and a case drain through the middle so it's ready for a saw cassette if I go down that route.

 

[DaveDCB]

Lovely setup regardless!
Good call on keeping it s45, s50 is really rare and the last thing you want to do is have a mix of s45/50!

 

[Monkeybusiness]

Fking thing turned up and it was S50! Not S45 as stated. So it went back and I'll wait for an s45 to turn up. It would have needed a bit of faff and ££ spent four piping it too. If I'd not already have gotten the top hitch fitted and all the s45 hitches made I might have persevered. I also considered changing the top of the tilty to s45 and having seperate s50 buckets for under it. But all faff, when an s45 tilty four pipe will turn up eventually.

And to be honest, I think I was kidding myself that a tilty would be good enough for running a grab under for my type of work. Without the angled headstock a grab is just useless for me. All the work I I have in the diary for it so far is tree and scrub clearance, with a bit of ditching.

This rotator is braked and has a second pair of ports and a case drain through the middle so it's ready for a saw cassette if I go down that route.

Grabs under tiltys are mega - that’s pretty much all I do with my machines tbh. The rotators are way better than anything hydraulic, no creeping at all. And you can dig with them if necessary…..

 

[doobin]

Grabs under tiltys are mega - that’s pretty much all I do with my machines tbh. The rotators are way better than anything hydraulic, no creeping at all. And you can dig with them if necessary…..

I need an angled headstock for scrub clearance. Just doesn’t work with straight pins and it’s most of my work.

 

[Monkeybusiness]

I’ve got an angled headstock on the old Rototilt (ie Cranab) grab on the 6 tonner - that’s how Rototilt supply them. Gives you a horizontal grab at ground level for ragging out stems/shrubs when oriented the right way around.