Lancs Lad
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It's weird I've realised all the stuff I've dabbled with properly . Engine rebuilds etc was all pre EGR
talk about feeling old.
talk about feeling old.
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DaveDCB
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Finally getting power into current site, I forgot what a pain roadworks can be, the amount of idiots that think it’s okay to drive through road closed signs! They are constantly dragging them out the way and driving up to us! Sheer arrogance of them! I’m sure / hope someone will be stuck in the road crossing by morning 
Lancs Lad
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The only thing that stops them here when bridge gets hit is concrete blocks. Anything else they move,chapter8s heras etc just get tossed aside.Finally getting power into current site, I forgot what a pain roadworks can be, the amount of idiots that think it’s okay to drive through road closed signs! They are constantly dragging them out the way and driving up to us! Sheer arrogance of them! I’m sure / hope someone will be stuck in the road crossing by morning
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Storrsy
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No. But the first 2 were 300tdis- not sure they even had an engine management light
or if they did I never saw it
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Smiffy
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I left a road crossing open once. The f*ckers opened a fresh pack of kerbs carried them and stacked them in the trench to cross over.
My contempt for the general public around roadworks is unmatched. Even seeing them comment on Facebook drives me insane. Why do people think they know how to do your job better than you I do not understand.
My stress levels have definitely decreased since I stopped working on the highways
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DaveDCB
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Was tempted to chuck afew bulk bags into the road.. but my works stop at the boundary,just let the subbies do the roadside bits.
Giles
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Resurfaced the entrance to a very popular carpark today, got there at 7 to find 15 cars in the closed car park for sunrise etc steadily left through the day, but the number of ppl who try pull in while planer or sweeper going or try follow asphalt wagon in, shoeing ppl away all day.
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pettsy
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I bet that place was heaving on Sunday!
doobin
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Finished a bollocksy fencing repair job- not my thing but put a silly price on and got it. Evidently nobody else fancied it- every post has been set in concrete so lots of crush whacked in well used to fill the massive holes left when we pulled the rootballs out. Finicky little things like new chicken wire and baseboards round the veg patch. M18 Brad stapler absolutely brilliant here. Rock auger saved the day drilling out the last gateposts.All spread out around an acre, some posts to knock in also, both digger and Multione on site. It was all oak replacements so that trailer of small oak butts from the other day was just the ticket- love it when things line up. Only one photo as it’s just not interesting and I was too busy most days to take any!
£5750, four and a half days on site (soaking wet on the ground, bloke also wanted it done in a specific two week period). Subby labour and bought in materials under £2k, maybe £800 worth of oak posts if I hadn’t cut them myself. A job that used all my skills and tools but for reasonable profit.
As we finished in the morning and I already had the E19 with grab with us I took the opportunity to have Jordan help me on a little site clearance job. Not bad for an afternoons work with two of us and nor was the money. Very handy having him bring the truck alongside as the road was very narrow and it would have been a major ballache doing it all myself.
Bit tight getting in but I don’t mind scratching an older digger. Probably underpriced it at £1050 but I couldn’t really see just how large it was when I first looked, the brambles were epic. Painful compared to the e27 but needs must. Started at 1, all rubbish away by 5. Popped back the next morning to level it off with the bucket and take a small load of scrap away/collect the digger.
£5750, four and a half days on site (soaking wet on the ground, bloke also wanted it done in a specific two week period). Subby labour and bought in materials under £2k, maybe £800 worth of oak posts if I hadn’t cut them myself. A job that used all my skills and tools but for reasonable profit.
As we finished in the morning and I already had the E19 with grab with us I took the opportunity to have Jordan help me on a little site clearance job. Not bad for an afternoons work with two of us and nor was the money. Very handy having him bring the truck alongside as the road was very narrow and it would have been a major ballache doing it all myself.
Bit tight getting in but I don’t mind scratching an older digger. Probably underpriced it at £1050 but I couldn’t really see just how large it was when I first looked, the brambles were epic. Painful compared to the e27 but needs must. Started at 1, all rubbish away by 5. Popped back the next morning to level it off with the bucket and take a small load of scrap away/collect the digger.
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doobin
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Tell me about it. I had the same when replacing a height barrier.
Three cars queuing up as I’m parked underneath it with the truck and welder! This ain’t a five minute job love!!!
TiltyShaun
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Blank it and no one will ever know!!
William127
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doobin
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Bit of adjustment required from the excitement of the 1.9t yesterday…
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Furniss
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we were out in the sun doing a bit of parking for someone - asked while we're there to find their tank and filter because authorities want to inspect it, put in by a builder in 2005 and was never signed off .....beggers belief 
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DaveDCB
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That’s rather close to the building….!!!!
Furniss
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yeah and buried under about 70cm of rock and clay - no backfill material, most pipework cracked - top popped off filter tanks, pump chamber buried ..
wtf .... someone spent several k on the system and saved couple of hundred quid on sand.
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DaveDCB
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Dare I say it, that buildings foundations will be more than compromised! Tank wants pulling out and hole flooding with conc!
Storrsy
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I wouldn't want the job of getting that tank out of there !
Furniss
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hmmm its a conc tank further away and those are 2 filters (the green) put there because it was all the land that was available at the time apparently - house dates to 1400 something apparently, system installed 2005.
its a clusterfook but we will sort it
its a clusterfook but we will sort it
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