Plant & machinery breakdowns..... - Do you get plauged with breakdowns?

[Mark B]

Any of you guys use the gorilla tubs/trugs atall, i feel there much stronger for everyday use, ive got three of the 42litre ones n they can hold a good amount of mortar/concrete, i mainly use them for mixing plaster, can hold a good amount.. they cant shatter like the usual builders buckets and any dried in mortar or concrete can just be flaked off the surface because they are flexible. any of you use them atall? ???

[lutonlagerlout]

i think in general the fact that a lot of site equipment is price led,means quality has dropped drastically over the last 20 years
my first bwk level 22 years ago cost £60 (heavy duty stabila) now you can buy sets of 3 stabila levels with 4 pencils and various bits and bobs for £28!!
something has to give
i think the older buckets were more rubber than plastic,i had 1 as my tool buckket for years, till some snotty hoddy nicked it and replaced it with a platic one,when i chucked my tools in it cracked immediately
mixers as well dont seem to last very long,i reckon about 2 years now and they are finished
cheers LLL

[Ted]

Any of you guys use the gorilla tubs/trugs atall, i feel there much stronger for everyday use, ive got three of the 42litre ones n they can hold a good amount of mortar/concrete, i mainly use them for mixing plaster, can hold a good amount.. they cant shatter like the usual builders buckets and any dried in mortar or concrete can just be flaked off the surface because they are flexible. any of you use them atall? ???

Looking just at products aimed at builders, I think those yellow Gorilla basket buckets are one of the best inventions of the last five, if not ten, years.

[Dave_L]

We carry our small tools in a plastic bucket - it's not very good as it doesn't stand up to being driven into/over by the digger.......:0

[Dave_L]

bobbi-o

Our planer is mounted on our 845 Bobcat - anything as big as the Wirtgen planer would be simply too big for residential works.

20 week lead time for anybody to even look at let alone repair/supply a new hydraulic motor........

Similar to this.....

[lutonlagerlout]

me being just a rough old brickie,i haven't the foggiest what a planer does?
can someone enlighten me?
thanks LLL

[Stuarty]

They rip up the road surface. I think they have teeth on a rotating drum and chew the tar or whatever the right name for it is :p I think your probably more likely to see them chewing up a part of the motorway and spitting it into the back of a tipper wagon. Thats just an educated guess

[bobbi o]

dave,the one in the pic has a planing width of 300mm and to a depth of 100mm.would seem ideal for small patching and tie in works,as it is apparently very manouverable,not sure of the price though?i like the idea of the small conveyor which you could load into a tractor/jcb bucket
havent seen one like yours in action. are you able to set the depth to plane and then drive it,or do you need to adjust the depth as you go.what kinda plane width/depth?
when you refer to the 20 wk lead time-is that the bobcat?

[lutonlagerlout]

ahh saw one at jct 9 of the M1 at 7 this morning chewing up the old slip road
i will tell the lads tomorrow and they will carry on snoring
regards LLL

[Dave_L]

We have a new planer head on order, they're not cheap!!!!

Conveyor in our case would be of little use when it is used on domestic areas. Our bucket brush is ideal for this purpose, prior to applying a tack coat.

400mm planed width and 100mm depth, it covers most eventualities for us.

The 20 week lead time was simply and purely for the hydraulic motor people to supply a new motor or to look at/repair/recondition our existing one!

We simply cannot be without our planer for that amount of time.

[Dave_L]

Here's our bobcat and (new) planer - soon to have an overhaul and a fresh coat of paint.

This machine saves us so much work, when it broke down on us we didn't realise how much work it was to break up a driveway with a jackhammer........

[Dave_L]

....and this is the sort of work it does - chews up the surface back into granular form so there is no cutting or drilling to be done, just hook it all out with the bucket. This was an old (side) road, so the construction wasn't that thick - but there wasn't half some large stone under the road!

[Tony McC]

I had to price up some 'specialist' planing work last month....several thousand square metres of granite flags and setts, only laid last year, but the lame-brain architect wouldn't be told that "cropped finish" granite was less than ideal for a pedestrian area, and after a number of "incidents", the whole lot has to be either planed/milled down until smooth, or ripped up and replaced.

Architects! Why do they find it impossible to listen to anyone other than the silly little voice inside their own hyper-inflated heads? If they had any brains they'd be behind the counter at Travis Bloody Perkins!

Anyway, the planing - I could buy a new Wirtgen planer for less than the cost quoted to me!

[Dave_L]

Do you reckon they'd plane without lifting, though?

[Tommy]

Both of our Cut and Collect High tip mowers broke within an hour of each other on Thursday.
The Zero turn blew its radiator pipes.
Then the Kubota ride on snapped its deck belt. which the mechanic said would take ten minutes to replace. It ended up taking 2 hours, removing the whole deck, drive shaft, gear housing and undoing of loads of awkward bolts with a makeshift spanner.

Luckily both machines were only bought in March, so are both covered by Warranties.


Tis Funny how everything breaks down just when you colud do without it. I.e. Big bosses from Head Office coming for a site Visit.