The 'Today's Job' thread

[Gunners]

Customer text me a photo and asked me to bring slings to lift it off to make it safe (loader already on site). Can do better than that, I said….

Drilled a hole at 45 degrees sloping down a few courses up and filled it with an SBR enriched slurry mix with some fairy liquid. Knew it would flow and fill just fine with some agitation from a 6mm rod as on that church gatepost job the other day I’d done similar with just 15mm clearance between old post concrete squares and new posts. So there’s a trick for the memory bank used again just a few days later!

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I know exactly where that is! Junction is a nightmare, and the job I was doing was up Tennasons Lane to the left of that pillar. Should have left it off, been a bit easier for the 8 wheelers to get round it

 

[Gunners]

What's not wrong with this drainage?... No wonder its not working very well!
Another job that's grown and I could have done without taking up yet more time. Replacement soakaway and pipework going in tomorrow now.

 

[Furniss]

What's not wrong with this drainage?... No wonder its not working very well!
Another job that's grown and I could have done without taking up yet more time. Replacement soakaway and pipework going in tomorrow now.

We need a tutt emoji or whatever there called.

 

[V8Druid]

Keeping my fingers crossed but may have found a local firm , 1hr away is local round here who can do bits of fabbing work and repairs for me, seem a decent outfit with relatively motivated young lads at sensible money
Been to see them today about a rake bucket and altering my tree shear to s40 and a 750mm digging bucket,for the shear we discussed making another mounting bracket and having s40 on it like in 1st photo which is as it is now but on 60mm pins.
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But a bit of a google shows one done like this
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Looks like a welded on s type -i guess loosing the bolt on plate like this would make it marginally lighter and pick up closer to the shear, the obvious disadvantage is when i move it on its a dedicated pick up and would need grinding off to alter it.
Whats thoughts fellas any other disadvantages ive missed, pick up would be further forward on shear but anyone see any issues ?

copy your existing bolt on base plate and weld an S40 to that

 

[V8Druid]

Started nee job extending and replacing some of these gabions, was meant to be done in June but rivers authority didbt sign off so here we are now. Rained all weekend and most of today river rose 1’ while we were there today.

Off to yard in morning see how many sheet piles and big road plates we’ve got to rethink it as it’s about 5’ deep where we need to get the Reno matteress in. Typical poor access job as usual.

could you not fill the deep section with riverstone -- seems to be plenty about, then dig it back out afterwards?

 

[V8Druid]

I know exactly where that is! Junction is a nightmare, and the job I was doing was up Tennasons Lane to the left of that pillar. Should have left it off, been a bit easier for the 8 wheelers to get round it

should bill 'em for knocking it off in the first place ... looks like a job for a piece of 8" tube, set in concrete in the deck outside that pillar

 

[V8Druid]

We need a tutt emoji or whatever there called.

we need access to the full set

 

[6feetdown]

we need access to the full set

 

[pettsy]

 

[doobin]

I know exactly where that is! Junction is a nightmare, and the job I was doing was up Tennasons Lane to the left of that pillar. Should have left it off, been a bit easier for the 8 wheelers to get round it

Where in tenyson's lane? I've worked for about half the houses there by now!

 

[Furniss]

Where in tenyson's lane? I've worked for about half the houses there by now!

Hes been tidying up #joke

 

[Lancs Lad]

Where in tenyson's lane? I've worked for about half the houses there by now!

Is that the cheap council houses road?

 

[Giles]

could you not fill the deep section with riverstone -- seems to be plenty about, then dig it back out afterwards?

It’s meant to be minimal disturbance as sssi wanted leaving till next summer but accountants and budgets don’t have to deal with the weather

 

[Storrsy]

It’s meant to be minimal disturbance as sssi wanted leaving till next summer but accountants and budgets don’t have to deal with the weather

Always the way. They take about a year to sort these jobs out then suddenly you get the go ahead in November and got to be completed by end of March, well thanks what a lovely window to try and fit jobs like that into

 

[Giles]

Always the way. They take about a year to sort these jobs out then suddenly you get the go ahead in November and got to be completed by end of March, well thanks what a lovely window to try and fit jobs like that into

100% we had a window in June for this they didn’t get sign off now it’s urgent ffs

 

[Quattromike]

Found a nice sunny spot for an erection today

 

[6feetdown]

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Found a nice sunny spot for an erection today

bloody rubbish here most of the day

 

[hiluxman]

Today's job was feet up and breakfast at home, terrible wind and rain and we was supposed to be fencing out on the woodhead pass and it's always worse there.

Did have a little grab job come in which I did straight away, so worked out perfectly for that customer

 

[Lancs Lad]

Today's job was feet up and breakfast at home, terrible wind and rain and we was supposed to be fencing out on the woodhead pass and it's always worse there.

Did have a little grab job come in which I did straight away, so worked out perfectly for that customer

Woodhead in this weather would have put hairs on your chest

 

[William127]

Always the way. They take about a year to sort these jobs out then suddenly you get the go ahead in November and got to be completed by end of March, well thanks what a lovely window to try and fit jobs like that into

I spent 29 out of 31 days in January a few years ago rustproofing and repairing generator canopy flat steel roofs. First job every morning was to squeegee them dry, unless of course it had frozen over night, then we had to scrape it first

The end customer had had my bosses price sat on their desk since bloody May!!! Job would have been a cracker in summer! Still, works work and we had a good laugh doing it.