The 'Today's Job' thread

[6feetdown]

That timber edging doesn't bode well for in ground contact! Is there a good alternative to timber edging- most of my kind of paths don't require any edging but got one to look at in a churchyard and they want edging- not keen to use timber for the above reasons.

Plastic

 

[Routy56]

sorry but that really isnt good ,just making work

Yep tell me about it
May pop to the site tomorrow and hopefully they don't get the digger stuck....

 

[DaveDCB]

It was one of them jobs you want to do in the summer really, and don’t mind working on till 8pm on a nice evening with a beer in hand…..

 

[DaveDCB]

Maybe he has nowt else that is more suitable at the moment and needs to keep earning a crust ....I mean we all must know what it feels like looking down the whiteboard for something to keep going with in this sort of shite weather.......thank fook its end of feb and not beginning of january.

It’s called go to Tenerife for a few weeks… can’t holiday forever I know!

 

[doobin]

It was one of them jobs you want to do in the summer really, and don’t mind working on till 8pm on a nice evening with a beer in hand…..

100%. And a swim in the lake once it’s done!

 

[Storrsy]

100%. And a swim in the lake once it’s done!

Probably wouldn't fill up in summer!

 

[Canal Navvy]

Probably wouldn't fill up in summer!

I'm always surprised how many "natural summer springs" people find when they dig swimming ponds

 

[Furniss]

It’s called go to Tenerife for a few weeks… can’t holiday forever I know!

Yeah but we aren't all wedged up property developers..... some of us poor old buggers are still up against it from time to time.

 

[Storrsy]

I'm always surprised how many "natural summer springs" people find when they dig swimming ponds

Yeah I've done quite a few natural fed ponds. Some would fill quicker than you can dig it out, others required a little more foreplay before things got exciting.
I cleaned this one out- used to be a pond back in the fifties and was more or less full to the brim with build up- willow trees etc. was dry as a bone when I cleaned it out September 2022. A few weeks later it had what is in the photo- saw it today as was working next door- bloody hell full to the brim and cascading over the boulders I arranged for the overflow- serious amount of water flowing through it.

 

[Furniss]

Yeah I've done quite a few natural fed ponds. Some would fill quicker than you can dig it out, others required a little more foreplay before things got exciting.
I cleaned this one out- used to be a pond back in the fifties and was more or less full to the brim with build up- willow trees etc. was dry as a bone when I cleaned it out September 2022. A few weeks later it had what is in the photo- saw it today as was working next door- bloody hell full to the brim and cascading over the boulders I arranged for the overflow- serious amount of water flowing through it.

Did you manage to get back to tidy it up before it filled ?

 

[Storrsy]

Did you manage to get back to tidy it up before it filled ?

Is this where you tell me I need an engcon?

 

[Furniss]

Is this where you tell me I need an engcon?

no im joking... looks tidy and good response

 

[Furniss]

Sometimes feels like we all get along far too well on here and it gets boring - maybe we need some moderate disagreement or maybe im just grumpy with all the incessant rain

 

[Furniss]

Been at the yard sheltering 🌧 im guessing its detachable gripper off and grab plumbed to side aux's as opposed to the fronts ?

 

[Storrsy]

Sometimes feels like we all get along far too well on here and it gets boring - maybe we need some moderate disagreement or maybe im just grumpy with all the incessant rain

I used to go on Arbtalk quite a bit. If you want a disagreement that's your place. .

 

[Smiffy]

Sometimes feels like we all get along far too well on here and it gets boring - maybe we need some moderate disagreement or maybe im just grumpy with all the incessant rain

Ok I'll start
Orange diggers are the best nothing else will do.
Blue battery tools are best nothing else will do

Green trucks are best nothing else will do.

I'm right and your all wrong.

 

[Furniss]

I used to go on Arbtalk quite a bit. If you want a disagreement that's your place. .

No chance, I know even less about trees than groundwork !

 

[Furniss]

Ok I'll start
Orange diggers are the best nothing else will do.
Blue battery tools are best nothing else will do

Green trucks are best nothing else will do.

I'm right and your all wrong.

I agree

 

[Smiffy]

I agree

That's not how this works

 

[Storrsy]

I agree

Engcons are s**t- waste of money..

Edit- especially if they have a gripper fitted.