The 'Today's Job' thread

[6feetdown]

What was the score then can it be jetted?

It was a home buyers survey

 

[Storrsy]

Went to the oldest house in leicestershire today. Built in 1200 something and "modernised " in 1620 something . Had been lived in continuously till 1960s! Got chatting to a guy there and was asking if the building was as it was back then and he was saying it was. I couldn't believe how tidy it was and how advanced things were even back then. I did mean to clarify with the windows did we have Opening windows back then?! Ill be honest the house looked comfortable although maybe not so much in depths of winter?! Then went to a monastery where I worked on conversion of outbuildings into trappist brewery 8 years ago. Had never tried the beer. Don't drink often nowadays but thought I'd give it a go. Lovely grounds in the monastery.

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Makes me laugh with building regs. We think we're so advanced these days with all the modern materials and techniques still available yet will the builds of today still be standing in 800 years time.
My parents live in an old granite farmhouse. The thing is literally sat on the bare ground, with quoin stone arrangements which would be laughed at today but it's 400yrs old and still standing fine.

 

[Monkeybusiness]

Makes me laugh with building regs. We think we're so advanced these days with all the modern materials and techniques still available yet will the builds of today still be standing in 800 years time.
My parents live in an old granite farmhouse. The thing is literally sat on the bare ground, with quoin stone arrangements which would be laughed at today but it's 400yrs old and still standing fine.

My dad’s house was 400 years old, sat on a sandstone plinth with no footings. The floor downstairs was quarry tiles laid directly on the soil below.
I went there today, and amazingly it is all still standing!

 

[V8Druid]

My dad’s house was 400 years old, sat on a sandstone plinth with no footings. The floor downstairs was quarry tiles laid directly on the soil below.
I went there today, and amazingly it is all still standing!

our barn is circa 1627 .... with some gert rocks at its base .. still there ... 400 years old next year

 

[Smiffy]

The old houses move through and that's alright because their whole construction allows for movement. Modern brick houses are completely rigid and crack because of this.
I personally think that between environmental concerns and everything else a traditional timber frame or even a Nordic style tongue and groove sat on a raft must be hard to beat. Bit of subsidence doesn't matter, nice and environmentally friendly timber. In a lot of areas, less concrete below dpc.
Considering our green drive I'm amazed at the proliferation of bricks still.
Plus planting some trees for timber might give some future jobs

 

[hiluxman]

The old houses move through and that's alright because their whole construction allows for movement. Modern brick houses are completely rigid and crack because of this.
I personally think that between environmental concerns and everything else a traditional timber frame or even a Nordic style tongue and groove sat on a raft must be hard to beat. Bit of subsidence doesn't matter, nice and environmentally friendly timber. In a lot of areas, less concrete below dpc.
Considering our green drive I'm amazed at the proliferation of bricks still.
Plus planting some trees for timber might give some future jobs

Greed drive I think you mean.

Anything that's sensible doesn't come into it...all about the money you can't have.

 

[Gunners]

@Gunners is our local star he can probably give the best feedback on YouTube’s success

I'm not sure I can talk about success on YouTube. I've had some good opportunities come up from it sure - Bauma last year curtsey of iDig was a highlight. But most of the time I just try and put something up that I would want to watch and hope others do too. I've not had a video do anywhere near 100k views yet and I've been posting stuff since 2019. You have to really do it for the love. According to my analytics, in the last 29 days I've earned £117 from YouTube and had 65k views. Now, its not views that make money - its watch time. But you can assume the people getting 200k views on a video and posting once/ twice a week are doing well - but that's far from everybody.
Digging is a super niche topic, so I am already restricting my viewers before you even start. And even in the niche, many wont enjoy my videos, which is fair enough, I'm nowhere near as exciting as Cammarrata as I don't want to set fire to my machines for views and all the trees on my sites seem to be under TPO's so going around pushing them over like Letsdig18 wont work for me. I could do the "will it start" genre with my wacker plate maybe?

If you fancy giving it a go then go for it! Its super easy to do, things don't have to be all that polished in our game to be watchable. But you have to have an edge to whatever you are putting up. Think what your point of view would be, or your angle on the job in hand, that's what makes it interesting I think.
Or build Lego sets - massive audience, don't need to talk, just buy the latest set and time lapse you putting it together. Then review it after

 

[Storrsy]

I'm not sure I can talk about success on YouTube. I've had some good opportunities come up from it sure - Bauma last year curtsey of iDig was a highlight. But most of the time I just try and put something up that I would want to watch and hope others do too. I've not had a video do anywhere near 100k views yet and I've been posting stuff since 2019. You have to really do it for the love. According to my analytics, in the last 29 days I've earned £117 from YouTube and had 65k views. Now, its not views that make money - its watch time. But you can assume the people getting 200k views on a video and posting once/ twice a week are doing well - but that's far from everybody.
Digging is a super niche topic, so I am already restricting my viewers before you even start. And even in the niche, many wont enjoy my videos, which is fair enough, I'm nowhere near as exciting as Cammarrata as I don't want to set fire to my machines for views and all the trees on my sites seem to be under TPO's so going around pushing them over like Letsdig18 wont work for me. I could do the "will it start" genre with my wacker plate maybe?

If you fancy giving it a go then go for it! Its super easy to do, things don't have to be all that polished in our game to be watchable. But you have to have an edge to whatever you are putting up. Think what your point of view would be, or your angle on the job in hand, that's what makes it interesting I think.
Or build Lego sets - massive audience, don't need to talk, just buy the latest set and time lapse you putting it together. Then review it after

I used to watch a bit of Camarata but was always rough on the gear for no good reason, pulling out bed rock with a tilting bucket- cringe watching but maybe that's what people like to watch . Went back to watch one of his today and found the video pretty grating tbh. I'd sooner watch one of your review videos- ok it may not draw the numbers in but real world in depth reviews of plant by someone who isn't a salesman are really far and few between I find. I also prefer English people on vidoes than the American dramatisation!

 

[Jimoz]

our barn is circa 1627 .... with some gert rocks (and assorted crisp packets & pop bottles) at its base .. still there ... 400 years old next year

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