The 'Today's Job' thread

William127

William127

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What does everyone favour now for a small power dumper/barrow ?
Nothing wrong with a mucktruck, handy things for not much money.
Once I got my slantrac 1 ton tracked dumper it was only ever a backup/ second machine, hardly used the last 18 months. Then I bought a 500kg Cormidi tracked dumper last month and the mucktruck was completely redundant.
 
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Stroppymonkey

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Nothing wrong with a mucktruck, handy things for not much money.
Once I got my slantrac 1 ton tracked dumper it was only ever a backup/ second machine, hardly used the last 18 months. Then I bought a 500kg Cormidi tracked dumper last month and the mucktruck was completely redundant.
Once we got the 1t tracked dumper and a belle warrior wheel barrow the muck truck was obsolete. Belle warrior is a beast!
 
William127

William127

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Same.

I remember when I bought it, it was my first dumper of any kind!

Same here👍 Did a fair bit with it over the years
 

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Furniss

Furniss

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Rarely used nowadays but had this since maybe 2007, merlo cingo and has been brilliant albeit noisy as Fook!
Have a mixer attachment for it that's mixed some gear too.
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That's not me or mine, mine is battered and not self load unfortunately.
 
V8Druid

V8Druid

do it as well as you can,but learn to do it better
Nice machine👍👍

But alas you are only playing at it🤔

My main job is shifting stuff with my lorry as a one man band

But I also have

1 20 tonne duck
1 20 tonne track machine
1 5 tonne midi digger
1 1.5 tonne mini digger
2. Dumpers
2. Telehandlers
1. 120 roller
1. 2 tonne FLT
1. moffet
Plus a shed full of tools

I think I need to sell a bit of gear😳
gonna show this list to Pam next time she complains about the amount of gear I have Mog :LOL::LOL:

she strolled into my tool box yesterday and started with " look how much stuff you've got " :rolleyes::( followed by " why have you got two drills " (pedestals) ... commentary went quiet, as I fed two lengths of angle through, piloting and then banging a 13mil through in one pass ;):giggle:, then proceeded to pull out all the gear necessary to conduct the sump repair yesterday afternoon, with no dramas/bodges/grief. :)

I've 'always' got too much until there's a 'can you just' or a 'how can we? ' or a 'have you got?' or a ' are you able to repair/fix/put this back together?
then having the right bit of kit/tool/nut/bolt/washer/screw/spare/whatever is just a 'happy coincidence' :rolleyes::ROFLMAO:
 
Jimbo69

Jimbo69

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gonna show this list to Pam next time she complains about the amount of gear I have Mog :LOL::LOL:

she strolled into my tool box yesterday and started with " look how much stuff you've got " :rolleyes::( followed by " why have you got two drills " (pedestals) ... commentary went quiet, as I fed two lengths of angle through, piloting and then banging a 13mil through in one pass ;):giggle:, then proceeded to pull out all the gear necessary to conduct the sump repair yesterday afternoon, with no dramas/bodges/grief. :)

I've 'always' got too much until there's a 'can you just' or a 'how can we? ' or a 'have you got?' or a ' are you able to repair/fix/put this back together?
then having the right bit of kit/tool/nut/bolt/washer/screw/spare/whatever is just a 'happy coincidence' :rolleyes::ROFLMAO:
I made the mistake of leaving the shed door open when the wife picked me up from the yard one time. Questions like where did all this stuff come from? Who’s is it? When did you buy that? Shed stays firmly locked now when she’s about 😂
 
pettsy

pettsy

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I made the mistake of leaving the shed door open when the wife picked me up from the yard one time. Questions like where did all this stuff come from? Who’s is it? When did you buy that? Shed stays firmly locked now when she’s about 😂

Same when I called at the unit to grab something while my mrs was with me….. why have you got those? Where’s that from? Why have you still got that, get it sold!….. not a mistake I’ll make again 🤣
 
Furniss

Furniss

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I made the mistake of leaving the shed door open when the wife picked me up from the yard one time. Questions like where did all this stuff come from? Who’s is it? When did you buy that? Shed stays firmly locked now when she’s about 😂
I said tonight( in a rather chuffed way) that we seem to he doing o.k for the time of year she said "well yeah, its first time you've stopping buying stuff for bloody years "
 
Furniss

Furniss

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Tidy. But why!?
Hmmmm I don't know exactly.

Someone called yeoman had his idea.

With the lie of the land, they are across the slope, instead of water running of they are leading the water across to the flatter area.

The bank tops are going to be planted - it was explained to me but it I asked questions that were answered but didn't make it any clearer 🤷‍♂️

Its a field that is part of the plan for self sustainability on a commune I go to.

With buckwheat, fruit trees, veg etc

Any wiser ? I wasn't :)
 
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Monkeybusiness

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Hmmmm I don't know exactly.

Someone called yeoman had his idea.

With the lie of the land, they are across the slope, instead of water running of they are leading the water across to the flatter area.

The bank tops are going to be planted - it was explained to me but it I asked questions that were answered but didn't make it any clearer 🤷‍♂️

Its a field that is part of the plan for self sustainability on a commune I go to.

With buckwheat, fruit trees, veg etc

Any wiser ? I wasn't :)
It looks similar to ‘circular garden’ planting which can be done in very arid climates (ie desert) - hardier trees are planted on top of the banks and they provide shade and help the soil retain moisture within the ditches, allowing more desirable crops to flourish.
Not sure why they would do it in temperate Europe though?
 
Furniss

Furniss

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It looks similar to ‘circular garden’ planting which can be done in very arid climates (ie desert) - hardier trees are planted on top of the banks and they provide shade and help the soil retain moisture within the ditches, allowing more desirable crops to flourish.
Not sure why they would do it in temperate Europe though?
Interesting, like you say not really applicable here with our rainfall.

Im just paid to dig on that one, put a podcast on and follow a plan, bit of a rarity.
 
Furniss

Furniss

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Climate resilience 😉 will also theoretically be pest resilience and biodiversity gain if they plant mixed species crops.

It's interesting, but ultimately works out as bollocks in my head.
Im sure you'd at least get a handle on it being an environment student and all , the explanation involved words like mycelium, I reached the "bollox" conclusion but that was probably ignorance.
 
doobin

doobin

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Cannot believe how much this little thing has shifted in two ten hour days.

Three arctic loads brought to roadside, over what I originally thought would be too long a distance in parts to be economical. Upand down some pretty steep banks too.

Going to try to get some of the really far flung stuff roadside- if I can do it in a round trip of 30 minutes it’s still worth it I reckon.

Pond from the other day is looking good. Stuck some brash around the sand martin cliff too.
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