Sandhill Plant

[Regy53]

I am thinking of making a blog about our days at work

Slightly different but you know

Il start of with why we are moving next year currently in a swamp. If brexit is not passed I may have to rethink moving but as it stands not only are we always full up we also work at the back end of a farm

If we have to stay I will invest my own ££ in some sort of concrete / deep road chipping or somthing

We have two large fields that run down to where we are and beyond it’s grim on a farm this time of year

 

[Regy53]

My brother who works for me is key machine cleaner. I like to think we clean our machines to a fair standard especially cabins. A little before and other

 

[Regy53]

We use the planings in this picture to load curtain side lorry’s but I should have invested in ramps years ago. They are the farmers and he uses them for the farm so it’s always moving and getting smaller. I have found a good nack to loading it’s fairly simple if it’s tracked I just rest the bucket on a bit of wood in the lorry and track forward and if it’s a wheeled machine we just drive until the wheels catch

Belgium bound this week

 

[TiltyShaun]

Does your brother want to come and get a Xmas tree from here and clean my telehandler?????

 

[Furniss]

will be interesting to see a bit about a plant sales business - I do a bit of plant sales alongside the hard work (or did before we were swamped with machine work) and plan on going back to it in a few years - Does your new yard have a loading facilities ,wash off bay,more floorspace,better access ?

TBH looks like you could put that right outside for not too much money esp if your capable of getting in one of your machines and prepping for the conc yourself ..... wont the farmer chip in if your improving his premises ?

 

[Grahams]

I’ll be joining the queue for cab cleaning. I never have the patience to get mine that clean.
Graham

 

[Regy53]

I have thought about offering machine cleaning as a actual business they come out amazing and I’m sure local guys would spend a few hundred a year keeping there machine right. I have invested in a lot of product and it takes a fair amount of time but the rewards are great. Some of my competitors do nothing really where as we go to town. I have no idea if it gives us more ££ I just like to think it gives us a chance as they are clean. I mean who wants to buy a minging machine ?

This 3cx came in Tuesday. It’s a minter

 

[pettsy]

Saw that 3cx on your Facebook post. Didn’t know they had a coffee machine

 

[Grahams]

I would have thought there would be local guys who would be happy to have their machine cleaned professionally for a few hundred a year. I would if I were local.
Graham

 

[Mogman]

I would have thought there would be local guys who would be happy to have their machine cleaned professionally for a few hundred a year. I would if I were local.
Graham

Graham everywhere is local to you you travel more than a nomad

 

[Regy53]

Saw that 3cx on your Facebook post. Didn’t know they had a coffee machine

When i sold new JCB and also competitors we used to joke its so you can have a coffee while you wait for the fitter

 

[Regy53]

Dug a bit of a trench for the farmer today, he was running a cable across the roadway which was recently dup up and then went straight through a cable. He wanted to put what looked like 12 inch maybe bigger ducting and asked if he could borrow me for a bit

Lads, your jobs are safe

I have never really dug anything than making a mess on demo sites and we found the worst clay which was just perfect for my toothless bucket I pulled up with in a used machine we had in

He wanted me to do all sorts of things with said digger and I soon learned I should of just told him what I was going to do, rather then him telling me to dig a way thet was impossible with space issues, ibut the clay was a issue as my bucket got full of it which wouldn’t leave and then I was just making a mess with what I could. Yes I did level off


In other news we are taking eBay to court ( long story) they billed me 4.5k fees for somthing we never sold via eBay. We have proof. We have facts they just don’t want to know so that sounds fun

Oh and I’m full on feet Up December. Had a jcb 3cx with a issue this week but have two more due in

By the way it was so messy as we was picking out big clay lumps with a bucket that was full of stuck clay .

Now I know why you boys have clay buckets, still I will fire the space heater at this one for a hour and hopefully it will fall out

 

[CPS]

I've seen worse digging from "pros"

You have s house full of cuties there

 

[V8Druid]

I've seen worse digging from "pros"

You have s house full of cuties there

Absolutely Aiden ...... and yeh ..... some heart breakers in the making there Ross

 

[Regy53]

Had a busy few weeks

Few 3cx to Poland
Takeuchi to Austria

Plus a load more

Also sold a bobcat E26 to Hywel Evans. I think some of you may know him he modifys machines for engcon and so on seems a very knowledgeable nice chap

What would you guys do with outside the yard then? We try not to turn it up to much. say 20 meters x 4 meter patch that directly affects us a lot

 

[Regy53]

I've seen worse digging from "pros"

You have s house full of cuties there

In hindsight i would have done it a different way but the farmer was obsessed with the shape he wanted it dug. It was fun though would of been a lot easier without the clay

 

[Shovelhands]

Had a busy few weeks

Few 3cx to Poland
Takeuchi to Austria

Plus a load more

Also sold a bobcat E26 to Hywel Evans. I think some of you may know him he modifys machines for engcon and so on seems a very knowledgeable nice chap

What would you guys do with outside the yard then? We try not to turn it up to much. say 20 meters x 4 meter patch that directly affects us a lot

I’d dig it out, Terram it, fill and compact with crushed hardcore. Then top with road plannings. Don’t know what Type1 costs around you, it’s very expensive round here, but I know some guys are buying it cheaper than I can buy crushed hardcore!

Obviously the ultimate would be concrete. But that obviously is more expensive and time consuming. Biggest bang for your buck is going to be plannings on top of some sort of compacted sub base, imo.

 

[Regy53]

The farmer uses it as a track it’s also a rented yard so I want to be carful with cost but I don’t mind investing

Would we not turn it all up with tracks? What we have found with plannings is they end up sticking to the tracks and then get swept up

 

[Furniss]

I’d dig it out, Terram it, fill and compact with crushed hardcore. Then top with road plannings. Don’t know what Type1 costs around you, it’s very expensive round here, but I know some guys are buying it cheaper than I can buy crushed hardcore!

Obviously the ultimate would be concrete. But that obviously is more expensive and time consuming. Biggest bang for your buck is going to be plannings on top of some sort of compacted sub base, imo.

My yard is road plannings - its no good for the bit where you wash off as it all turns to shite.... its a battle to scrape the mud off the planning every time, ive been measuring up and was thinking 5m wide conc strip along shed side - then you can get walk nicely down each side of whatever it is your washing with room to move the lance about and still keep your feet on concrete both sides.

 

[craig]

The farmer uses it as a track it’s also a rented yard so I want to be carful with cost but I don’t mind investing

Would we not turn it all up with tracks? What we have found with plannings is they end up sticking to the tracks and then get swept up

Concrete railway sleepers lay out tight to each other, if you move or circumstances change you can take them up and reuse them else where, or sell them on.
Once settled, and a bit of dirt has washed between them they will be quite solid and shouldn't move with tracks, as long as they are put down reasonably flat, (no edges sticking up to catch on).