The 'Today's Job' thread

[V8Druid]

Just googled them and they advertise you can fire 50 cal. The cleared danger area with no human access for this sort of firing a huge. They must have a way of sealing off vast areas.

Just googled them and they advertise you can fire 50 cal. The cleared danger area with no human access for this sort of firing a huge. They must have a way of sealing off vast areas.

if we're talking Sweet Lamb on Epynt, the entire mountain/moor is a live firing range over a vast area, is gated, with red flags and no entry to ANYONE when closed. They don't just live fire small arms there, but artillery, tanks, etc. .. 'S where I found that shell.
The ministry have built dummy villages, all sorts up there.
In 1940, they evicted/relocated the entire village of Mynnyd Epynt from up there and has been under MOD control ever since. Roads, etc. are only open to public access when they choose to open the gates and lower the flags ... IIRC it's all under the control of the Sennybridge camp.
just had a google ...

Mynydd Epynt - Wikipedia

en.wikipedia.org

Epynt clearance - Wikipedia

en.wikipedia.org

" In total, four hundred people were ejected, with the army seizing an area of 30,000 acres (12,000 hectares). The area now forms the core of the Sennybridge Training Area (SENTA), one of the largest military training zones in the UK.[7][8]

Training operations destroyed most of the original structures which had formed the community of Mynydd Epynt, including chapels and their cemeteries. Despite this, the area saw the construction of an artificial village in 1988. The Fighting In Built Up Areas zone (FIBUA) saw the construction of many mock buildings, including a fake chapel with imitation gravestones.[9] "

 

[Monkeybusiness]

Sweetlamb is a private 5000 acre estate near Llanidloes where they host a lot of rallying events and testing.
The firing range is down across a valley into the side of a massive hill. Even I couldn’t miss the entire hillside!

 

[Furniss]

Think me n this little gripper are going to be mates, practicing before first job with it monday, overgrown bit of yard, shift the shite,scrape brambles and buggerment away - level a bit of stone and put everything back, hardly moved machine and only got out of cab to wacker it even got wacker out of shed with it.

 

[Smiffy]

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Think me n this little gripper are going to be mates, practicing before first job with it monday, overgrown bit of yard, shift the shite,scrape brambles and buggerment away - level a bit of stone and put everything back, hardly moved machine and only got out of cab to wacker it even got wacker out of shed with it.

Grippers look awesome

That's one thing I am surprised at is that they don't offer or atleast if they do they don't promote it, is having a grapple on a normal quick hitch. Other than bulk bulk earthworks I think just about every job would have a use at some point for a gripper and would be a good way of tilty manufacturers to slowly bring people around as once the gripper is installed I think the want for a full tilty would increase

 

[Furniss]

Grippers look awesome

That's one thing I am surprised at is that they don't offer or atleast if they do they don't promote it, is having a grapple on a normal quick hitch. Other than bulk bulk earthworks I think just about every job would have a use at some point for a gripper and would be a good way of tilty manufacturers to slowly bring people around as once the gripper is installed I think the want for a full tilty would increase

Not sure they would be much use if they were fixed though

 

[DaveDCB]

. They must have a way of sealing off vast areas.

Yeah a fella going Rambo with a 50cal

 

[hiluxman]

Reckon if it had been made from cheese it would of been stronger

 

[Monkeybusiness]

Reckon if it had been made from cheese it would of been stronger

Who needs to be able to stop anyway!

 

[hiluxman]

Who needs to be able to stop anyway!

Thought was made to just put a cable from cab to the manual pull stop.

 

[hiluxman]

I’ve barely used mine, just around the yard.

Anyone ever worked out the mpg of these things, out of curiosity.

Mine started to get expensive when red was no longer an option.

The idea of tramping a backhoe to save money is now long gone.

 

[Left hooker]

Yet in America i fired a 50cal in a shooting range building just off the Vegas strip

 

[V8Druid]

Reckon if it had been made from cheese it would of been stronger

Die cast ali BTLs gently does it with that crud ... a dowty'd 've gotten you a seal and probably saved the unit

 

[V8Druid]

Yet in America i fired a 50cal in a shooting range building just off the Vegas strip

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but how deep was the ballistic wall behind the targets, Stu ??

 

[DaveDCB]

Anyone ever worked out the mpg of these things, out of curiosity.

Mine started to get expensive when red was no longer an option.

The idea of tramping a backhoe to save money is now long gone.

Never did figure it out, but on long journeys I’d just lay off the throttle slightly and it made everything quieter and must have saved abit.. still cheaper than a £200 wagon move each end of the day!

 

[Left hooker]

but how deep was the ballistic wall behind the targets, Stu ??

Put it this way he said don't aim up or theres nothing stopping it

 

[Grahams]

Yet in America i fired a 50cal in a shooting range building just off the Vegas strip

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There are a few specialist military ranges they can shoot 50 cal in and test ranges in UK, but they are not generally open to the public. The granulated rubber as used in the video is very effective at absorbing the energy. 500mm of rubber will stop it, so most people install 1000mm to have a safety margin. The problems arise through lack of maintenance reducing the depth or people missing the bullet catcher all together. I have unfortunately seen plenty of problems that have only come to light when neighbours have complained about finding bullets.

 

[hiluxman]

Die cast ali BTLs gently does it with that crud ... a dowty'd 've gotten you a seal and probably saved the unit

I did

 

[fred]

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Think me n this little gripper are going to be mates, practicing before first job with it monday, overgrown bit of yard, shift the shite,scrape brambles and buggerment away - level a bit of stone and put everything back, hardly moved machine and only got out of cab to wacker it even got wacker out of shed with it.

i really miss mine. It made picking the crap from demo a dream.

 

[hiluxman]

Never did figure it out, but on long journeys I’d just lay off the throttle slightly and it made everything quieter and must have saved abit.. still cheaper than a £200 wagon move each end of the day!

Well yesterdays outing worked out a 5.1mpg.

Obviously many factors but that was a typical run I'd of done when I'd had mine but with it been a hired machine and me paying for derv it was monitored.

I literally got there, turned round and drove straight back. Site was ment to be totally clear but no 3 machines in they and about 200t of spoil

 

[doobin]

was the bollox for oil fires .... totally depletes/eliminates oxygen from the fire seat. ... IIRC it was deemed carcinogenic. .. I still have a few too .... had two or three on each of my cranes ... only way to deal with a fire properly

IEP Doncasters in Blaenavon (big forgemasters/section/ring rollers) I did a lot of work in/for .... they had a BIG machinery cellar full of hyd valves/pumps/motors/etc. under the main shop floor ..... 'bout 20ft deep ... had to go down in there one day with one of the maintenance guys, who I knew very well. Tells me to pay very careful attention to what he's saying as we go down in .. every 10 ft on the walls are respirators in pairs ..... dozens of 'em ..... tells me that if the fire alarm goes off in there, we have 10 seconds to get one on ... before the cellar is flooded with halon ....
was a very nervous half hour down there looking at the job.

How would a respirator have helped if it sucks all the oxygen out?