The 'Today's Job' thread

[DaveDCB]

Maroon maybe then.. I was pretty much blind the next day

 

[Shovelhands]

There’s an American guy on YouTube with a Yanmar tractor that colour. He’s had it several years, I’ve never thought anything of it, but maybe all Yanmar products are this colour in America and they are now using it in Europe?

 

[doobin]

They kill two birds with one stone (pardon the pun!) Cargo ships require vast amounts of ballast in the hull which is where the rocks come in

I'm pretty sure you're mistaken here. Rocks that size can't just be piped via an auger into the hold. And you'd never get a cargo ship close enough to unload. They use flat bottomed barges that can be shunted in when tides allow.

As I understand it, the rocks come from Norwegian quarries right on their coast. Straight into a barge, down to our coast, and then unloaded straight onto the job site. A simple case of maximum efficiency.

 

[6feetdown]

Last shutters done for the timber frame

 

[Lancs Lad]

Last shutters done for the timber frameView attachment 37487View attachment 37488

And that truly is worthy of the "that's not going anywhere" leaning on the shovel remark

 

[Smiffy]

And that truly is worthy of the "that's not going anywhere" leaning on the shovel remark

Although with all the green policy's at the moment you have to question why we are tipping hundreds of thousands of tonnes of concrete into the ground when there are hundreds of houses that have last a few century's built on top of flagstones laid in the mud.

 

[6feetdown]

Although with all the green policy's at the moment you have to question why we are tipping hundreds of thousands of tonnes of concrete into the ground when there are hundreds of houses that have last a few century's built on top of flagstones laid in the mud.

Liability for structural engineers

 

[DaveDCB]

Liability for structural engineers

It’s gonna sink due to the weight of all the bloody concrete

 

[Smiffy]

Liability for structural engineers

If the houses where built properly it wouldn't be a problem. All these people rushing around to find sustainable alternatives. When we had these alternatives 300 years ago

 

[6feetdown]

It’s gonna sink due to the weight of all the bloody concrete

Turns out Western Power gave us the wrong size hockey stick so may have to core through the toe now for a bigger duct

 

[V8Druid]

Turns out Western Power gave us the wrong size hockey stick so may have to core through the toe now for a bigger duct

you mean they might have to

 

[DaveDCB]

Turns out Western Power gave us the wrong size hockey stick so may have to core through the toe now for a bigger duct

How about they come and do it! What did they send a 32mm? Single phase?

 

[6feetdown]

Yeach should have been 3 phase apparently

How about they come and do it! What did they send a 32mm? Single phase?

 

[bobthebuilder]

Yeach should have been 3 phase apparently

100mm then,had this on present job ,put a 3 phase supply in as standard now ,car chargers ,ashp etc

 

[Lancs Lad]

100mm then,had this on present job ,put a 3 phase supply in as standard now ,car chargers ,ashp etc

3ph Seriously? Or do you need advise of expecting demand?
That's ruddy handy for folk who just may require "moderately sized machinery for their hobby"

 

[DaveDCB]

Yeach should have been 3 phase apparently

Any need for it? Just a bigger bill for the end user otherwise.. we’ve built some pretty big houses and none needed over 100a.. even my industrial unit is only 1ph

 

[DaveDCB]

Took to extreme measures to water a hedge I platetee back of of last year. Got some drip line irrigation set up on it now so hopefully it pulls through

 

[6feetdown]

3ph Seriously? Or do you need advise of expecting demand?
That's ruddy handy for folk who just may require "moderately sized machinery for their hobby"

I'll double check tomorrow but I'm sure that's what they said, unless I'm getting cross wired excuse the pun as I know the new transformer they put up last week was 3 phase. Still the duct is definitely wrong size

 

[TiltyShaun]

Had to change a meter box on our new build last year as all new connections have ‘to allow’ for future 3ph meters even if single phase is being put in.

 

[DaveDCB]

I'll double check tomorrow but I'm sure that's what they said, unless I'm getting cross wired excuse the pun as I know the new transformer they put up last week was 3 phase. Still the duct is definitely wrong size

All mains feeds are 3ph hv that we have put in, then the last 30meters are single ph LV, all future proofing the main runs which makes sense, obviously having the final ducting in to take 3ph is handy,… but not when you have the world’s strongest foundations to go through