The 'Today's Job' thread

[JD450A]

Hard now someone has replied to it! I never knew that. How odd. It goes down so much better with a quick sorting and the big stuff sitting at bottom.

I'll soon delete mine

I fully agree.

 

[Cal919]

Couple of little weekend jobs, digging up a driveway and garden for my plumber. Then over to my wife’s stepdads for a quick trench. Found a bundle of joy while digging. Was meant to be a shallow trench to avoid services but found loads. The ‘water main’ is being used for electric apparently thats what him and his gardener do.

 

[Giles]

What did you bed the pipe in with? Presumably that makes a difference.

20mm clean limestone

 

[Furniss]

 

[Stroppymonkey]

Sunday messing around. Trying to sort a couple of wet areas so extending a 4” French drain another 8m. Couldn’t decide to use fabric or not on a French drain so went half and half (ran out of Teram).
Kubota swivel very handy.
Experimenting with creating a grading beam on the tilt bucket, lightweight unistrut surprisingly effective.

 

[V8Druid]

Sunday messing around. Trying to sort a couple of wet areas so extending a 4” French drain another 8m. Couldn’t decide to use fabric or not on a French drain so went half and half (ran out of Teram).
Kubota swivel very handy.
Experimenting with creating a grading beam on the tilt bucket, lightweight unistrut surprisingly effective.

but not for long

 

[6feetdown]

Sunday messing around. Trying to sort a couple of wet areas so extending a 4” French drain another 8m. Couldn’t decide to use fabric or not on a French drain so went half and half (ran out of Teram).
Kubota swivel very handy.
Experimenting with creating a grading beam on the tilt bucket, lightweight unistrut surprisingly effective.

I've not tried mine yet since I've welded some hooks on to grab the beam, tried it with 4 in 1 on the rototilt and it was good tbf but kept falling off

 

[Stroppymonkey]

but not for long

It was just to explore the concept . Thinking about cutting a slot into a 6’ length of scaffold tube. Not sure the E10 could bend that.

 

[V8Druid]

It was just to explore the concept . Thinking about cutting a slot into a 6’ length of scaffold tube. Not sure the E10 could bend that.

weld some tabs on and bolt to bucket edge

 

[6feetdown]

Like the Somme! Thank goodness for those mats 2 days saved already

 

[V8Druid]

Like the Somme! Thank goodness for those mats 2 days saved already
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been 18 hrs continuous here so far ... total opposite of yesterday

 

[Giles]

Sorting a track out on an nt camp site base of kinder, moved digger then swapped back to tipper to move dumper as needed tipper next day not plant trailer. Mustn’t have been under bridge with it at yard looking only beacon and din mount pole annoying though.

Then wagon couldn’t get to tip well could and has been for 20 years but busy body Dorris/Karen decided now trust taken site away from renter farm she doesn’t want wagons in the farm yard that’s nothing to do with her. Trust farm yard, she lives in little cottage out front but wagon might damage gulley in trust farm yard! Anyway this one’s a letter writer so we tipped stone mile back down lane(it’s a private lane) at trust ranger house so had to sneak digger back down lane and ferry 32 ton up to the site.

No mobile signal so on the old walk is talkies which are handy, gravel grids for top end of it tomorrow stop mot washing away

And blocked drain to sort causing water

 

[V8Druid]

Sorting a track out on an nt camp site base of kinder, moved digger then swapped back to tipper to move dumper as needed tipper next day not plant trailer. Mustn’t have been under bridge with it at yard looking only beacon and din mount pole annoying though.

Then wagon couldn’t get to tip well could and has been for 20 years but busy body Dorris/Karen decided now trust taken site away from renter farm she doesn’t want wagons in the farm yard that’s nothing to do with her. Trust farm yard, she lives in little cottage out front but wagon might damage gulley in trust farm yard! Anyway this one’s a letter writer so we tipped stone mile back down lane(it’s a private lane) at trust ranger house so had to sneak digger back down lane and ferry 32 ton up to the site.

No mobile signal so on the old walk is talkies which are handy, gravel grids for top end of it tomorrow stop mot washing away

And blocked drain to sort causing water

I'd've taken it off anyway ... first tree'd 've had it

 

[Giles]

I'd've taken it off anyway ... first tree'd 've had it

Complacency, always been fine moving it around as no real low trees on main roads due to wagons/buses etc.

It’s got led flashers on roll bar as backup

 

[Stroppymonkey]

Complacency, always been fine moving it around as no real low trees on main roads due to wagons/buses etc.

It’s got led flashers on roll bar as backup

Good job none of its on public highway! Fair loads there

 

[Giles]

Good job none of its on public highway! Fair loads there

Good job none of its on public highway! Fair loads there

Kubota too heavy to be on road on tipper but dumper is only 2136kg

 

[Stroppymonkey]

Kubota too heavy to be on road on tipper but dumper is only 2136kg

Kubota is just towable on plant trailer without bucket I think?

 

[6feetdown]

hard work this weather everything takes twice as long

 

[DaveDCB]

View attachment 57660hard work this weather everything takes twice as long

What’s going on there?

 

[Stroppymonkey]

View attachment 57660hard work this weather everything takes twice as long

Looks fairly dry compared to round these parts!