The 'Today's Job' thread

[Lancs Lad]

Yeah got the big lazer light bar as well but never fitted it with stedi 31.5 lower snd lazer grille not needed it lol, just bought a v6 though so will be switching grill and wheels and think on v6 will fit the big lazer on a roof rack type setup

Nice, you'll love the V6. It just purrs.
I've got big Lazer up top on the racks but tbh about 50% time it's too bright! It's more off-road lighting ...but ruddy good at waking up middle laners
Those grille one's never cease to impress me.
I'd have them on any future truck. For the shitty roads round here they are brilliant .

 

[Giles]

Nice, you'll love the V6. It just purrs.
I've got big Lazer up top on the racks but tbh about 50% time it's too bright! It's more off-road lighting ...but ruddy good at waking up middle laners
Those grille one's never cease to impress me.
I'd have them on any future truck. For the shitty roads round here they are brilliant .

The amarok standard headlights on 2l were crap and I’m like you all country roads in awful weather with my grille lasers and the lower bar road signs hurt your eyes with reflection lol and ppl get out the way when on full beam

 

[Lancs Lad]

The amarok standard headlights on 2l were crap and I’m like you all country roads in awful weather with my grille lasers and the lower bar road signs hurt your eyes with reflection lol and ppl get out the way when on full beam

I occasionally "forget to dim" when it's a twat coming the other way...they just stop dead
Sad I know
Yep standard lights are crap even xenon's.

 

[Danny]

I bought my welfare unit for £5.3k + the vat this time last year and it has been such an asset!! Not the best towing when you've got all your tools etc still in it because you don't want to do x2 trips

 

[hiluxman]

Is that a proper end cap for ducting I’ve not seen before or the lid of an industrial wipe tub.

5 loads of screened soil in and lost of new fences, tough going 400mm mot then 300mm+ very well compacted brick hardcore then clay sandy soil

Mr smythe on the top soil drops.

 

[Giles]

I bought my welfare unit for £5.3k + the vat this time last year and it has been such an asset!! Not the best towing when you've got all your tools etc still in it because you don't want to do x2 trips
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Which make is that one? Single axle?

 

[William127]

Back in the workshop today, between 2 of us we serviced the chipper and digger, turned the anvil on the chipper and cleared out the debris from 165 Christmas trees, repaired lights on 2 trailers, fitted a few new lights, gas strut, brake away cable, starter solenoid and oil change on the mini chipper, checked brakes and bearings on chipper and trailers and a couple of other bits. A good productive day
I spent quite a while freeing off the blade extensions on the digger, they've never been usable in the 14 months I've had it- not sure they've ever been used at all! 1 was easy enough, lowered the blade down so the weight was on a drift under the pin and smacked the blade with a hammer, but the other side was having none of it. In the end I cut the 'handle' off the top of the pin and built up a blob of weld on the top of the pin. The heating and cooling freed it off and it hammered straight out pretty standard stuff but I was pretty pleased that I remembered it and did it successfully

 

[Danny]

Which make is that one? Single axle?

Groundhog Gp360 single axle quite a few on bidspotter at the moment

 

[Tintan28]

Founds for a small extension has proved tricky this week. It’s a tight area with a 2m high retaining wall close by. The drain run that we needed to move a manhole on turned out to be a combined sewer that we’ve renewed despite having supposedly been surveyed by the architect; so paperwork a plenty there. The main water feed for twenty odd houses runs through the found in 3/4” copper that I can’t isolate without Northumbrian Water’s assistance. And into the bargain there’s f###ing hard whinstone bedrock at shallow depth.

Could be worse though as the clients are very decent & hopefully the local building inspector will prove to be as pragmatic as usual on Monday.

It also seems the weather has been reasonably canny for January compared to many of you lot.

 

[Giles]

Founds for a small extension has proved tricky this week. It’s a tight area with a 2m high retaining wall close by. The drain run that we needed to move a manhole on turned out to be a combined sewer that we’ve renewed despite having supposedly been surveyed by the architect; so paperwork a plenty there. The main water feed for twenty odd houses runs through the found in 3/4” copper that I can’t isolate without Northumbrian Water’s assistance. And into the bargain there’s f###ing hard whinstone bedrock at shallow depth.

Could be worse though as the clients are very decent & hopefully the local building inspector will prove to be as pragmatic as usual on Monday.

It also seems the weather has been reasonably canny for January compared to many of you lot.

Did you have to cover copper at night or lag it stop jack frost bursting it and getting that phone call in the night?

 

[sjs5060]

Founds for a small extension has proved tricky this week. It’s a tight area with a 2m high retaining wall close by. The drain run that we needed to move a manhole on turned out to be a combined sewer that we’ve renewed despite having supposedly been surveyed by the architect; so paperwork a plenty there. The main water feed for twenty odd houses runs through the found in 3/4” copper that I can’t isolate without Northumbrian Water’s assistance. And into the bargain there’s f###ing hard whinstone bedrock at shallow depth.

Could be worse though as the clients are very decent & hopefully the local building inspector will prove to be as pragmatic as usual on Monday.

It also seems the weather has been reasonably canny for January compared to many of you lot.

Looks like my usual sort of job

 

[Tintan28]

Did you have to cover copper at night or lag it stop jack frost bursting it and getting that phone call in the night?

Yes lagged it & covered it just in case.

 

[Jimoz]

Yes lagged it & covered it just in case.

Can you get a build over with a mains water pipe or i presume it has to be moved?

 

[Tintan28]

Can you get a build over with a mains water pipe or i presume it has to be moved?

No it’ll definitely need to be moved. I’m not keen to do it live with it being old copper piping & supplying so many but Northumbrian Water are being a bit ‘computer says no’ at the moment so I may have to; or I’ll have to take lads off the job. It’ll not be going 750mm deep that’s for sure!

 

[pettsy]

No it’ll definitely need to be moved. I’m not keen to do it live with it being old copper piping & supplying so many but Northumbrian Water are being a bit ‘computer says no’ at the moment so I may have to; or I’ll have to take lads off the job. It’ll not be going 750mm deep that’s for sure!

I’ve done bursts on terraced rows before, not fun. I’d just go and knock on the doors and say “there’s a leak on supply pipe, water will be off for a short period at 11am”. Have a couple of these ready along with your new section of pipe ready made up and should be fairly quick changeover, most will probably never know!

 

[Monkeybusiness]

I had to move the stop-tap in my old terraced house that was fed from the shared supply.
I should add that I’m not a plumber (but am happy to get stuck in!).
I did it at 2 in the morning and it went fairly well, but I didn’t take into account the amount of ‘back-feed’ that came out of the neighbouring houses’ pipe work straight into my downstairs bathroom…
A couple of my neighbours commented on their noisy plumbing in the middle of the night and asked what I’d been upto!!

 

[JD450A]

Who needs breakers

 

[V8Druid]

Who needs breakers

you ..... judging by the one on the floor behind the machine

 

[V8Druid]

Founds for a small extension has proved tricky this week. It’s a tight area with a 2m high retaining wall close by. The drain run that we needed to move a manhole on turned out to be a combined sewer that we’ve renewed despite having supposedly been surveyed by the architect; so paperwork a plenty there. The main water feed for twenty odd houses runs through the found in 3/4” copper that I can’t isolate without Northumbrian Water’s assistance. And into the bargain there’s f###ing hard whinstone bedrock at shallow depth.

Could be worse though as the clients are very decent & hopefully the local building inspector will prove to be as pragmatic as usual on Monday.

It also seems the weather has been reasonably canny for January compared to many of you lot.

looks a right bitch of a job

's a hell of a small pipe for 20 odd houses, isn't it?? ... they shower in rotation???

Looks like my usual sort of job

 

[doobin]

Who needs breakers

Nice grab. If you get a chance of an tg16, you’ll find it has around double the grip force for not a lot of extra weight. When using my tg12 when I’m used to the the tg16 it’s very noticeable- have to lift up slightly when closing around stuff on the ground for example.