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[GB_Groundworks]

had our fabricator build this for us, its ok but really needs to be on a tilt hitch to be really useful. but handy like here on such a tight site no room for a telehandler.







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[lutonlagerlout]

there are fork trucks, and there are FORK TRUCKS

now that is a fork truck

LLL

[DNgroundworks]

Cool, ive see these before, theres a Balfour site near me and they have one on a wheeled excavator, the guy using it was a pro, id of thought itd be hard to use!

[mickg]

nice bit of kit GB

[GB_Groundworks]

its a bit tricky when its on backwards like in the pics as its backwards on the bucket curl.

but its strong can pick a full pack of 140mm dense concrete block up and stick it on the second floor scaffold

not used the 140's before on a house, they are a pain. 1 brickie off with bad back, crane in on monday got 3 ton of steel going up for the roof.

this is an artist impression of the house were building

[lutonlagerlout]

the old engineers love ridge beams nowadays,never saw one till 10 years a go, now its every 2nd job
i did the pads today then we have to get a nice 7 M long,35 kg/metre ridgebeam up monday
through a window......................

LLL

[dig dug dan]

bit of kit. Dare we ask "how much?"

[GB_Groundworks]

the forks we bought from a fork lift brakers for £40, and the metal and welders time it came to about £450 for it.

[rab1]

at that price, should have paid for itself in a week. ???

[GB_Groundworks]

tony to you buy in the pad stones or make them yourself?

these are all strapped down with the 3 wall plate straps then hilti anchored into the pad stones.

[lutonlagerlout]

mostly use R15 reinforced lintels ,you know the 140 by 100mm pre cast ones, either that or blue stafford class A eng bricks
A timber plate gets bolted on top of the beam then the rafters pasloded on to that
its due to the fashion for vaulted ceilings
LLL

[GB_Groundworks]

these are all 300mm high by 140mm, to sit on the 140mm 20 newton block walls, we had them cast for us, its a right spiders web of steel on this one.

yeah we use a hilti spit and nail the top plate into the rsj

[Tommy]

I was in spain last year, and saw a 13 tonne wheeled Hitachi with a tilt/rotator hitch and a two piece knuckle boom, and a set of the pallet forks, with a trailer mounting on the blade.... he couldnt half shift some material

[lutonlagerlout]

these are all 300mm high by 140mm, to sit on the 140mm 20 newton block walls, we had them cast for us, its a right spiders web of steel on this one.

yeah we use a hilti spit and nail the top plate into the rsj

the walls normally go that thick when the ceiling height is over 2.4 M,we did a music room with 5 m ceilings was the same 100 mm brick,insulation, then 140 blocks.
stronger i expect
LLL

[haggistini]

best one i seen was in the film alien