Pissing about with only half a clue on the shed site.

[Stroppymonkey]

perfick job that
can you make yourself a stand to drop the lift beam onto, when not in use ?

Maybe! Needs to be on a pallet really so easy to store away.

 

[Stroppymonkey]

Did a couple hours of the day job then over to site and Took the moffett up the road to unload a neighbours shed. 48x20ft purlins in one pack was definitely more than 2000kg. Had to split the pack. Moffett coped well with juggling long lengths of steel about, makes your brain hurt threading 20ft stuff through a smaller gap
Back down to site to spread about 20t of road planings around and grade off with the homemade beam. Needs a bit of rain to damp it before I run the plate over it.

 

[6feetdown]

 

[Lancs Lad]

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Festoolery makes the job a dream...

 

[6feetdown]

Festoolery makes the job a dream...

Wrong thread lol hijacking stroppymonkeys thread

 

[Stroppymonkey]

Over last night to fit new hoses to Moffett. Got them back to front and had an interesting fork situation with each one going a different way
Cleaned out and freed up the pulley as that was seized. New hoses fractionally too long and one about 5mm longer than the other which is annoying. I will space the pulley bracket a bit which will improve things. Got the wacker out but planings need watering in and it won’t bloody rain when I want it to!
Back over this morning with the safety guy for the Hiab/gantry’s and now the moffett and the new lifting jib.
Got 2 of the lads doing their refresher training on the moffett next month. Annoying that it has to be a different wasted day to the normal FLT assement

 

[Stroppymonkey]

Also moved the hose clamps on to thr back of the framework on tbe carriage, so now I can use jib without having to move the hoses / take forks off. Just need to make a pallet / storage solution now

 

[Stroppymonkey]

I could use these for sleeper retaining walls for the lower sections .. but not sufficiently cheap to make me want to drive to Crewkerne and back. Looks like about 2000kg for the load (assuming 30kg pm?) and would just about squeeze onto the LM166 with 5ft out over back and 5ft over the ladder rack. Probably asking for a Tug driving down the M5/A30 though

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[DaveDCB]

£50/meter….

 

[Mogman]

£50/meter….

That’s dear
I see them at £150 a length

 

[DaveDCB]

I sold 28lenghts at 6 meters for 3k worth of favours.. and that completely filled a bale trailer.. (plus all the safety rails)
You wouldn’t want to be loading them on a ifor over the ladder rack….

 

[V8Druid]

£1670/t + VAT .. leave 'em there - ok they'm galv but they're not cheap ....
save 16p/m if you take 'em all ...
what's his name ? Cohen?
depending on where he's measuring the thickness - could just as easily be 25kg/m which'd make them even dearer £1993/t + VAT

 

[V8Druid]

That’s dear
I see them at £150 a length

max for the long ones at 193kgs each

 

[Mogman]

max for the long ones at 193kgs each

I’m on about selling not buying

 

[DaveDCB]

I’m on about selling not buying

Should of known

 

[Stroppymonkey]

Not been over to site much as work has hit Silly Season. 4 oil boilers gone in this week and 2 of them were emergency replacements.
Snuck over this afternoon to get rid of some paperwork .. 5 x 240 litre bins of it . About 6 weeks worth. Safely recycled . Trailer unloaded from when we moved the cabins recently.
Concrete panels batch 1 are coming on Monday. I want to get the lower shed weather tight this winter.
Dewalt 18v blower made things much more exciting than usual

 

[Quattromike]

£1670/t + VAT .. leave 'em there - ok they'm galv but they're not cheap ....
save 16p/m if you take 'em all ...
what's his name ? Cohen?
depending on where he's measuring the thickness - could just as easily be 25kg/m which'd make them even dearer £1993/t + VAT

Your about £800/ton for new steel section and £950/ton for galvanizing up our way just now. Thats £1750/ton before you do any work on it eh cutting welding lugs drilling. But then you get what you want made sometimes

 

[Stroppymonkey]

These arrived today. Slight misscom with the measurements for the threads inserts for the clamp bolts. Might have to drill though to get it right .. not the end of the world .

 

[Stroppymonkey]

Been busy elsewhere… back for an afternoon. Started my temporary retaining wall with the heavy boards and Lego blocks . Will be 6 bays eventually and I can use them for tipped materials which will be a lot better for getting my a loader bucket into.
Quite impressed with the blocks, easy to move about with FLT, and the lifting clutches are clever little things .

Had a good fire as well

 

[Stroppymonkey]

Back on the weekend project. Got the rest of my new Lego blocks used up.
Need another £800 - £1000 worth to finish this off. Bit of a bodge up but will sort the issue until I get around to building a proper wall when I have time and money and inclination . Probably not this decade. Will pour some gravel down the back of the boards and plant a bamboo hedge on top to help tie the soil together.
I can order some more scalpings/ 803 and some aggregate now that I have somewhere clean to tip it .
Moved about 20t of waste hardcore with the Tafe and got some Teram down so that the next load of hardcore can be tipped where I want it to save moving it twice.
Proper wet today . No cab on the digger or dumper or tractor. At least the Moffett has a bit of Perspex which channels the run off onto my right hand .