The 'Today's Job' thread

[hiluxman]

That's interesting, 'cos our local tool hire co is offering daily hire at £165/day +VAT. Let us all know how you get on with it

Apparently it's around £450 for the week. This is a mega nightmare access job so the cost is easily justified.

We only had a little play with it this afternoon but it fired out around 3.5t in under an hour.

Tomorrow will be a busier day with it...but the sunshine may mean not too long either.

 

[Routy56]

Apparently it's around £450 for the week. This is a mega nightmare access job so the cost is easily justified.

We only had a little play with it this afternoon but it fired out around 3.5t in under an hour.

Tomorrow will be a busier day with it...but the sunshine may mean not too long either.

Excellent- good to know
Any photos of the wee beastie in action

 

[Furniss]

days like these are why I would deff recommend a gripper with your tilty,
had to replace a failed filter bed - tank had never been maintained, prefilter in tank had been taken out and so consequently after months or years of sludge getting in it, sand filter was blocked, so with gripper I could sit in a nice splatter free environment and dig to then dismantle old chambers/geotextiles/pipeworks and then later pick it all up and put it into truck for recycling, only the gripper got covered in sludge and not us

checked out @ 2ish - cos it was pretty hot !

 

[hiluxman]

Excellent- good to know
Any photos of the wee beastie in action

No but I'll get more pics tomorrow of it.
Apparently the jaw is easy to set it's width by just pressing a button too.

 

[Russell]

days like these are why I would deff recommend a gripper with your tilty,
had to replace a failed filter bed - tank had never been maintained, prefilter in tank had been taken out and so consequently after months or years of sludge getting in it, sand filter was blocked, so with gripper I could sit in a nice splatter free environment and dig to then dismantle old chambers/geotextiles/pipeworks and then later pick it all up and put it into truck for recycling, only the gripper got covered in sludge and not us View attachment 83038View attachment 83040

checked out @ 2ish - cos it was pretty hot !

I worked for a local drainage firm briefly. My god ive never seen so much s**t in my life. The stench that comes out of the lorries when they hoover out the tanks is the worst.
Or maybe jetting the drains and when it clears, 12 turds come sailing by.

 

[Stroppymonkey]

£23/ton for 6f2…?

Never bought 6f2, but the last 19t of 40mm scalpings I had was 24+vat a ton.

 

[6feetdown]

Never bought 6f2, but the last 19t of 40mm scalpings I had was 24+vat a ton.

About the same here

 

[hiluxman]

Never bought 6f2, but the last 19t of 40mm scalpings I had was 24+vat a ton.

6f2 is about £4.50/£5 per ton, 40mm to dust Crushed brick been about £7pt...but little local aggregate yards stock it too and charge £22 per ton and they get plenty of takers too.

I love doing Crushed brick deliveries because you earn more than you do with type1 stone ect.

 

[William127]

Put this in between 6.30 and 7 this morning, easy dig thankfully.
They've been having a rouge car randomly park in the space, when I got there yesterday the problem car was already there, and not enough room to put the post in anyway Too hot to mess about so I left it till today. Couldn't get a muck in one yesterday so made an anchor with a couple of left over brackets
Then spent a couple of hours finishing up in the pampas grass horders garden I've been working in.
Dad went to the Thrapston Collective yesterday, got shot of 4 wrong wheels and tyres I bought at auction last month, got my money back (whole 20 quid ), less commission
He won this little fergie 2 furrow for me for only £60, very nice thing, still got the makers plate, but with a broken furrow. Had 2 spare in stock from the last 1 I got so I figured out how to change it over. Was not too hot in the barn so quire a nice job for a couple of hours. Bit of hammering, spannering and cutting g, all made easier by having it on the forklift, and the little pull winch for aligning
Couuple of bolts to replace, Should get 200 quid for it easily now

 

[Furniss]

I worked for a local drainage firm briefly. My god ive never seen so much s**t in my life. The stench that comes out of the lorries when they hoover out the tanks is the worst.
Or maybe jetting the drains and when it clears, 12 turds come sailing by.

90% of what we do are new installations so a clean job, with just the connections that can occasionally be iffy

tbh glad to be doing in something thats a must in many instances, not many people asking for the fancy vertical slate walls lately, its all very quiet but we have a nice run of installs booked to take us into back end.