The 'Today's Job' thread

[V8Druid]

Yes wal partially filled in 30 years ago. Very distinctly less than original Devon banks adjacent though.

just take and keep plenty of pix to evidence your claim, if grief is forthcoming
can't beat timed, dated pix to argue your case -- just make sure the camera/phone/whatever you use is correctly set for time/date

 

[Stroppymonkey]

just take and keep plenty of pix to evidence your claim, if grief is forthcoming
can't beat timed, dated pix to argue your case -- just make sure the camera/phone/whatever you use is correctly set for time/date

Set my digital camera for 1991, will do

 

[pettsy]

Google Streetview can be handy or a hinderance on roadside gateways

 

[Stroppymonkey]

Google Streetview can be handy or a hinderance on roadside gateways

It’s such a narrow section that’s heavily in leaf at time of the last (and only) google car passing that it doesn’t really show one way or the other

 

[6feetdown]

Pipe inspection this morning

 

[Stroppymonkey]

Pipe inspection this morning

Very tidy !

 

[Stroppymonkey]

Put the 40mm mesh on the screener and rattled a few ton through. Need to put a tarp over my stock pile and let it dry. Clay = sticky . Hard to remember how dusty it was in the summer.

 

[Furniss]

Pipe inspection this morning

I kept meaning to knock up a pipe holder like that till it got forgotten....you just reminded me again

 

[William127]

More digging out at the barn. Need to get this lot shifted before the field gets wet... Probably 60 trips with the loader to go

 

[V8Druid]

More digging out at the barn. Need to get this lot shifted before the field gets wet... Probably 60 trips with the loader to go

you need a 6t Thwaites

 

[William127]

you need a 6t Thwaites
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A 3 ton towable swivel would be just the job.
Guy up the road from me has just sold one that would have been perfect, old enough to be cheap enough for a yard machine, new enough to trust on sites, tidy for age, and only 800 yards from mine. Didn't see it in time

I'll just have to get the steering, brakes and clutch unseized on this old beauty I bought at the weekend...... on second thoughts I'll just plod on with the loader

 

[Simon edwards]

Nice couple of weeks,dug a lot of holes for trees,some swimming pool tidying,bit of trenching ,all general plant hire stuff,pretty enjoyable really

 

[DaveDCB]

Been tracing this old 6” drain back, could only just ram the rods down it with nothing on the end, I knew roughly where it went but didn’t know when it turned under the road.. finally found it today & thankfully it’s not knackard under the road, bodged a temporary repair in where I broke into it to rod.. jumped over the road and am 99% sure I found the outlet just couldn’t prove it as ran out of rods!
will replace the 100meters or so leading into it another day.. the 1” drain within the 6” will have to do for this winter 🫣

 

[6feetdown]

Hopefully be running Monday

 

[Stroppymonkey]

Been tracing this old 6” drain back, could only just ram the rods down it with nothing on the end, I knew roughly where it went but didn’t know when it turned under the road.. finally found it today & thankfully it’s not knackard under the road, bodged a temporary repair in where I broke into it to rod.. jumped over the road and am 99% sure I found the outlet just couldn’t prove it as ran out of rods!
will replace the 100meters or so leading into it another day.. the 1” drain within the 6” will have to do for this winter 🫣
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You not got a tracer reel?

 

[DaveDCB]

You not got a tracer reel?

I do not… something to go on the never ending list of things I need

 

[Monkeybusiness]

You not got a tracer reel?

Or a jetter?

 

[Stroppymonkey]

I do not… something to go on the never ending list of things I need

Or a jetter?

Changing the subject slightly. I think I would like a Sonde. I find the tracer reel awkward when trying to find actual end sometimes. I know nothing about them really. What’s the options.

 

[6feetdown]

Changing the subject slightly. I think I would like a Sonde. I find the tracer reel awkward when trying to find actual end sometimes. I know nothing about them really. What’s the options.

Put a signal genny on it should be able to trace the whole route

 

[DaveDCB]

Changing the subject slightly. I think I would like a Sonde. I find the tracer reel awkward when trying to find actual end sometimes. I know nothing about them really. What’s the options.

I’m going for a sonde first..

Jetter wouldn’t have helped much, clay pipe is collapsed everywhere, this was a case of find the pipe run and get it flowing then replace another day when we are working on the site full time . May even take the new pipe another direction and avoid going under the road altogether