It’s a pain in the arse but can be well worth the money . Like you say it defo speeds up the process and up here the warrant officers tend to bow to the engineers knowledge as a specialist . Actually saved me money on my pad as I got to discharge from treatment plant directly to watercourse queried by the warrant officer but he had to let it go when engineer started quoting Sepas regs to him .
Just fill the forms in with a vp off 24 ! That’ll pass and won’t need attenuation . You’re a Groundworks contractor and it’s your own house so you will make it work properly anyway when the time comes despite what the results are .
Tbh what'll happen post planning is we will probably redesign the lot in house...... But gathering the data now.
. We got 8.5 sections in today with the 1100 return. Starting at top corner post working down then worked up. Been ages since I've done it so was a bit rusty for first few panels. Didnt put the panel in on first one, then I wasn't trenching out to the right depth for my gravel board on first couple. Will have to adjust the gravel board height on those 2 to drop the panels down to level. Got a good system going after that. Marked all posts up at start 6ft down from top, strung a line up around 300mm off the deck, the width of gravel boards then worked to this. Had a 4x2 with mark at 3ft which told us when depth of hole was good. Me and my 4 y.o mixed the gear while the apprentice dug holes. Couldn't be bothered to teach him how to mix in 1 day. Used the 200mm auger then trimmed it out a bit bigger with a shovel. The apprentice couldn't quite get the hang of using it as good as me. He was all or nothing with the pressure. I find you have to let it bite a bit but not take itself right in else it stopped. Then when it got down so far I'd brace the handles against my knees to keep it from turning. About threw him round a couple of times . The old mixer didn't like the genny, not sure which one is more knackered. Lucky I had my young lad there to hold the green button it stop itself turning off a lot of times. Perfect job for a 4 y.o, he also liked filling up his little bucket of ballast for me to chuck in.A sap calc for all the insulation levels i found very useful to hand over to inspector,no questions asked
what's keeping the gardens in place either side???Few tons out of here! 6 grabs gone so far, probably 3 piled up ready and 2 to come out the ground still
Existing Concrete on the right, left side is going to need a retaining wall on the lower terrace and some of the middlewhat's keeping the gardens in place either side???
Anyone who says they can do work like that with just a grading bucket and a gooid operator is an idiot.Not putting it out there as outstanding work or anything, far from it , but when customer asks whilst your having your sarni if you could do a little pond on your way out its good to have a tilty spinny thing ! and idig tbf to it
There’s a lot of jobs like that been done by good operators without tiltrotators - not as quickly I’ll grant you. Call me an idiot if you want, but don’t call me late for dinner.
There’s no way you can put those contours on.
I did a fair few golf bunkers years ago in the uk, on a nice little 802, it was the late 90's, I think you could safely say it took more experience to get the job done, lots of liitle things like keeping some spare material to get the machine sat on help get the angles etc, even with the tilty there is still is a fair bit of tracking to do initially if you want to have something evenly and well compacted thats not going to settle unevenly and be shite in a few years, I roughed some material round in a basic shape of the final pond, then tracked it in, did this a couple of times as i was digging inside but staying away from the final cuts, forming a rough version of it with excess material everywhere, then its simple with the tilty, you can sit in a couple of spots and shape it out of the rough version, that part of it was much trickier on a standard machine obviously, took lots of work positioning the machine to be able to cut the shape, id say we did some pretty nice work before but ultimately its a hell of a faff comparatively and taking waay more time/fuel/wear for similar results.
yeah little bucket no teeth and patience !
That a pretty fair description of how I’ve done ponds. The smallest was about 40 square feet, the biggest was 40 acres, for a multi-millionaire farmer who wasn’t too concerned about how long it took, which was a good thing. He wanted no straight lines, and the slope to change continually all the way round. This was a pain as I’d just come off a run of drainage board work where you had to stick to batter angles, and even lines between pulls were frowned on.
Nice job there. You can spend ages shooting for perfection, then the grass and weeds grow and you wonder why?Not putting it out there as outstanding work or anything, far from it , but when customer asks whilst your having your sarni if you could do a little pond on your way out its good to have a tilty spinny thing ! and idig tbf to it
