The 'Today's Job' thread

[Giles]

Bits from the last few weeks, finishing off the car park at the pub refurb we’ve been involved in and first pool dig of the season finished today.
A very clever mower thing mulching through the muck

lovely work, thumbs up

 

[Giles]

Impromptu post knocker won't do the breaker end much good but hopefully good enough to drive the posts in

use some bungees etc to keep it pressed against the point

 

[Giles]

There what he means by billets of steel I think

think mine is turned from a single piece of rod

 

[doobin]

think mine is turned from a single piece of rod

Look closely. I’d be very very surprised.

It doesn’t make economic sense to turn an 8” billet down to a 1” shank when you can just machine a taper fit.

 

[doobin]

Loader making life easy as usual. Wheels today as access tight.

 

[6feetdown]

Correct. @6footdown- I'm afraid I don't think that will last ten minutes in hard ground.

If it does this job I'll be happy if not I'll be out of pocket

 

[6feetdown]

Look closely. I’d be very very surprised.

It doesn’t make economic sense to turn an 8” billet down to a 1” shank when you can just machine a taper fit.

Pretty sure the 1s I was quoted are 2 piece

 

[Grahams]

tidy work my ride on is about fooked - those robots seem appealing, someone needsto update its perimeters by the looks of it.

They seem to be improving all the time. Lots now that don't need the buried perimeter cable so easy to remap.
I have a robot vacuum/floor scrubber and it is great. Washes the kitchen and boot room floor 4am every morning and vacuums bedroom, hall etc after we are up. Clever enough to swap from washing to just vacuuming if it encounters a rug on a hard floor and goes round obstacles.
Its not perfect and a bit like the lawn robots relies on regular cleaning rather than waiting until it is really dirty, but as it self empties and cleans and dries the mop each time no reason not to run it every day. Certainly a lot better than doing it myself.

 

[Lancs Lad]

They seem to be improving all the time. Lots now that don't need the buried perimeter cable so easy to remap.
I have a robot vacuum/floor scrubber and it is great. Washes the kitchen and boot room floor 4am every morning and vacuums bedroom, hall etc after we are up. Clever enough to swap from washing to just vacuuming if it encounters a rug on a hard floor and goes round obstacles.
Its not perfect and a bit like the lawn robots relies on regular cleaning rather than waiting until it is really dirty, but as it self empties and cleans and dries the mop each time no reason not to run it every day. Certainly a lot better than doing it myself.

She says our roborock mop thing is the best thing I ever bought her!!!

 

[Giles]

Look closely. I’d be very very surprised.

It doesn’t make economic sense to turn an 8” billet down to a 1” shank when you can just machine a taper fit.

yeah think its maybe 2 pieces was over £500 though!

 

[Simon edwards]

How do we do our pools here with a wall and foundation? In oz they just seem to dig them out, re bar up and shotcrete the whole thing in 1 go.

Hollow blocks reinforced seems to be standard over here,I know this contractor has done full concrete construction but they tend to be indoor so integral to the stability of the overall structure.
I dug a few in Oz years ago,they were all concrete as you say,might be a weather thing too,