The 'Today's Job' thread

[DaveDCB]

Bit of overflow ditching from the back of my yard through a neighbours field straight toward the river!
Turned up with my machine and trailer and my neighbour had a machine laying around so borrowed that instead

 

[Giles]

Like @Storrsy we are trenching in 2000m of watermain and bt duct and we’ve got some pretty big rocks in way. Got a huge pile stashed in field abs been rd some, through others a real ball ache then hand dig under tree as protected ffs oh and a 47” main in there somewhere as well

 

[Furniss]

Like @Storrsy we are trenching in 2000m of watermain and bt duct and we’ve got some pretty big rocks in way. Got a huge pile stashed in field abs been rd some, through others a real ball ache then hand dig under tree as protected ffs oh and a 47” main in there somewhere as well

2000m .... its to be hoped it gets easier going !

you got some decent kit on the job anyhow ... wouldnt be much fun bouncing around in a 3 tonner on a price

 

[Furniss]

Bit of overflow ditching from the back of my yard through a neighbours field straight toward the river!
Turned up with my machine and trailer and my neighbour had a machine laying around so borrowed that instead
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What size is that you been playing on ? and any good ?
And going by photos when you said "he had a machine lying around" maybe you weren't joking

 

[Giles]

Also widening rd in so screened dig out into beautiful top soil which we then used to bed water abd bt in! Felt like a crime. Used some of the big ones for base of wall.

 

[Giles]

2000m .... its to be hoped it gets easier going !

you got some decent kit on the job anyhow ... wouldnt be much fun bouncing around in a 3 tonner on a price

We’ve got 3 32mm connections to do in this one farm courtyard all cobbles and such thennanothrr. 32mm to take 450m down to another farm through a huge boulders field with some sticking out ground as big as houses. I’m only one digging as well other lads can load dumpers etc but not good enough yet to trench well

 

[Furniss]

We’ve got 3 32mm connections to do in this one farm courtyard all cobbles and such thennanothrr. 32mm to take 450m down to another farm through a huge boulders field with some sticking out ground as big as houses. I’m only one digging as well other lads can load dumpers etc but not good enough yet to trench well

Get them on it .... good job to learn on isnt it ? you cant dig it straight anyhow with the rocks and are you going to enter any into the boulder competition ?

 

[Furniss]

Moved to another Job today .... prob the last time I will put photos of my new truck moving the 8 tonner
I am fairly chuffed with how its moved things on for us on btw

 

[Monkeybusiness]

I’ve brought my son to the TT for his first visit.
Turns out even after a 2 year break the riders are still mental - averaging over 131mph laps from a standing start in tonight’s practice(!)…

 

[DaveDCB]

What size is that you been playing on ? and any good ?
And going by photos when you said "he had a machine lying around" maybe you weren't joking

48z, only had 750 hrs on it but it had been abused to hell(cab was full of parts which had fell off and no one had bothered to bolt back on!), also surprising how much shorter the dipper is to my 57c! Still plenty of power, and smooth as it needs to be!

 

[V8Druid]

Also widening rd in so screened dig out into beautiful top soil which we then used to bed water abd bt in! Felt like a crime. Used some of the big ones for base of wall.

where's the table top rock gone

 

[Storrsy]

Also widening rd in so screened dig out into beautiful top soil which we then used to bed water abd bt in! Felt like a crime. Used some of the big ones for base of wall.

The price of living in a place of beauty few quids worth of stone there at least.

 

[Storrsy]

Also widening rd in so screened dig out into beautiful top soil which we then used to bed water abd bt in! Felt like a crime. Used some of the big ones for base of wall.

What makes that grab on your Bota?

 

[Furniss]

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I’ve brought my son to the TT for his first visit.
Turns out even after a 2 year break the riders are still mental - averaging over 131mph laps from a standing start in tonight’s practice(!)…

Hope you get some good weather ... great fun

 

[Storrsy]

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I’ve brought my son to the TT for his first visit.
Turns out even after a 2 year break the riders are still mental - averaging over 131mph laps from a standing start in tonight’s practice(!)…

Christ. Blink and you miss them

 

[Giles]

where's the table top rock gone

Still in field might use us as a bridge over the pipe as peak park are being funny about the blue cast pipe we used to go over stream

 

[pettsy]

peak park are being funny about the blue cast pipe we used to go over stream

Surprise surprise glad we’re just outside!

 

[Canal Navvy]

Bloody conservation bods, if you disguised the ducts to blend in with the surroundings by artistically draping them in big bale string, net wrap and shreds of silage wrap they'd object because you couldn't "read" the alteration to the historic landscape
The trade does seem to attract cockwombles........ or more often cockwomblesses (or whatever the current acceptable term is)

 

[6feetdown]

Bloody conservation bods, if you disguised the ducts to blend in with the surroundings by artistically draping them in big bale string, net wrap and shreds of silage wrap they'd object because you couldn't "read" the alteration to the historic landscape
The trade does seem to attract cockwombles........ or more often cockwomblesses (or whatever the current acceptable term is)

I could think of other words !

 

[Giles]

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What makes that grab on your Bota?

@CPS supplied it “Dala gripen” Swedish.