Last few weeks in pictures

[GB_Groundworks]

2 large tri folds on the kitchen jut out we tanked it, then installed linear drains on the main patio infront of the doors, the step takes us back 150mm below dpc for the path so you get a seamless transition from kitchen to patio

brickies been working for us best part of 20 yrs now almost like my uncles expect them gamble and drink alot more haha



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[GB_Groundworks]

nice work mate, liked the house with the air con unit (compressor).

thats only the one for the server room, the main 8kva unit is behind the close board fence in the back of the first picture. its massive easily 800x1500 by 1600 high with 2 large fans ontop

[Mikey_C]

climbed up on boom for some arial shots

are you trying to wind sean (ruby) up!!!

[GB_Groundworks]

daily maintenance check on the wear of the top pin......

did my risk assesment and had my fall arrest harness on

i'll take the cherry picker next time

[dig dug dan]

Giles, what's going on with the rugby pitch. Are you putting drainage in then replacing it?
If you were just re levelling ans seeding, then a blec stoneburier is surely the answer

[GB_Groundworks]

its a new 4 acre field that has been bought from a farmer, he used it for silage.

so we are doing the initial leveling and setting out of the pitches there is a 3 metres difference corner to corner. so splitting it in 2 have 2 full size pitches. 110mx70m there will be a 1.3 metre step/berm between the pitches.

to get the pitches level we need to cut and fill +/- 1 metre on both of them to get them level. photo so far are the top soil being stripped and saved on the other pitch to go back over the clay once the levels have been achieved. so we rotovated it and then piled the top soil into berms now moving it off the 1st pitch so we can start moving the clay.

trying to sort out a 20 ton komatsu dozer we've found at handy money, but transport is an issure escort vehicle etc.

i relayed the second team pitch about 3 years ago using a 2.5m wide blec stone burier serious bot of kit, stalled our old 100hp john deere, had to use it in creeper gears doing a metre a minute but created a lovely seed bed.

we'll power harrow and then blec the soil once its back in place


our blec




few weeks after starting work was back to its former glory, get trained on 4 times a week then played on 3 times so was very compacted and bare






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[lutonlagerlout]

looks the business giles
i reckon you must have more plant than mick o'brien
and he has stacks
great stuff keep it coming
LLL

[GB_Groundworks]

so the pile grows

thursday


friday


we rotavated the field then stripped it and made it into berms, now moving them to the soil stock pile(above)



so we're getting there soil stripped off, now for the clay



at the moment moving about 700 tons with one lad swapping between machines and reshaping stock pile now are again

[GB_Groundworks]

got the footing down to 2.3 on the footing i'm doing, right pain and another 50 tons to shift of rock hard concrete like clay.



been filling in footings then positining then digging them out again, plus hot day today sat ontop of a engine and hot hydraulics



anybody want to buy a toyota invincible 3.0 d4d nice truck, but not got the iso fixings for my car seat so not going to have it.





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[carlbeardsmore]

Hi Giles,

How are you going to fininsh the footings at that depth? Mass trench fill, a small concrete strip then foundation trench block or concrete strip and blockwork?

I would not like being down at that depth laying blocks...

Wonder if the BCO would be after you throw him in...?

[lutonlagerlout]

its nearly all trench fill now carl
the days of 30 course of bricks in the footings are long gone
concrete is cheaper than brickwork so concrete it is
LLL

[GB_Groundworks]

just mass fill, too dangerous to have lads laying at that depth

going to chuck about 25m in bring it up to about 800 below damp.

he let us step the footing so, its 2.3m deep all the way along the back and 5 metres up each side then in steps up to 1.7m then 1.4 then the front strip footing furthest from the trees is at 1.1m.

[GB_Groundworks]

cleared all the soil back to clay and started moving the clay to the other corner of the field

getting a bit slippy with the rain, funny doing a power slide with 20 tons of tractor and trailer

guy drove into the field today in a brand new range rover, think it was the first mud it had ever seen, wanted some footings doing so jumping on that next week, can tip the stuff on this job so handy. those new range rovers are the boss he was showing us, the dials are all computerised when you get in its a picture of a sun set then you put key in and you get speedo etc very cool. and with the central tv thing the driver sees the sat nav and the pasenger can watch tv due to the angle very cool haha, on a more important note fixed the radio in the tractor so no longer dying of boredom while loading haha.

[Dave_L]

Ah the dual-view screens - same as what is in the new Jags, very swish!

[GB_Groundworks]

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=E8xlGva6_Eo

my lad steering my truck rd the field this morning