Last few weeks in pictures

[GB_Groundworks]

tractor stuck in the mud at rugby club job, was doing some fencing at our farm so would have been a pain to drive get tractor clean it off and bring it home just to put in a few posts to take it back to get car etc, 3 ton was there auger on in 2 mins etc,

[dig dug dan]

did you just backfill the posts or concrete them
Was wondering about an auger for the k008. Do they every get jammed? what happens if they hit a large flint?
Round here its all stone!

[GB_Groundworks]

Only concrete in really bad ground, use a fencing bar to back fill with the clay. That's now we do it in the country side just as solid.

They are tipped with carbide cutting teeth. Slows them down but will break through. Roots are worse, when it's on our 1.6 ton roots can stop it. But we have two way hydraulics so just reverse it. On the 3 ton not much stops it and spins really fast.

Fabricated a carrier bracket so it can go on our3cx or 8 ton as well, for reaching up banks etc, but can't have them revving to hard though. That auger takes unto a 300mm auger, we have 150mm and 200mm and an extension bar.

[lutonlagerlout]

i really like this picture

that is a great shot giles ,unintentional or not
LLL

[lutonlagerlout]

and yes it best the M1,M11,M25 any day of the week
LLL

[GB_Groundworks]

it was very intentional, pulled over, set iphone onto hdr mode just wish id had my big camera with me. i'll dig out one from the other week hold on...





emailed you the hi res originals tony



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[henpecked]

Just when you get a cloud break and a few rays poke through always make me stop and look.

Awesome pics, Giles

[Al Jardin]

I'm sure they're called crepuscular rays. Watched cloud spotting a few weeks back on iplayer. Nice too see that kind of landscape. It's quite flat around here.

Al

[GB_Groundworks]

5 ton yanmar

came at good money so had to have it, its coming friday i hope. guy cleaning it up fixing a few issues,new seat etc, welding some greedy boards on the side for the soil got a rock body on it at mo.

love new toys haha and hopefully get this job done before im away to the sun

[msh paving]

Nice one giles, bigger brother to mine,if you need any parts cautrac are the best people to go to, they have direct contact with japan speak to mark kent or dan in parts 01206 273111
MSH

[GB_Groundworks]

yeah know cautrac they have a depot in bolton near us, we get our rubber tracks from them for our minis and parts for our sumitomo 8 ton also.

looking forward to putting it through its paces, ill get some video etc post it up here.

[cookiewales]

yeah know cautrac they have a depot in bolton near us, we get our rubber tracks from them for our minis and parts for our sumitomo 8 ton also.

looking forward to putting it through its paces, ill get some video etc post it up here.

there very good on bad ground dont churn it up seating is not made for us big boys small japs :;):

[GB_Groundworks]

first day with new 5 ton yanmar, fueled it up and welded on some steels for greedy boards for when we move the soil



be interesting to pair it with the the 3 ton, 16 tonner can load it in 2 passes





this is the crap weve been going through with it



first 2 loads of the 200 tons of 10mm limestone for the drains
weve ordered a custom made V shaped bucket with no sides, 150mm cuttig edge at bottom. will save us over 100m3 of stone, good few £ worth.



old and new un



built another pond for drain water attenuation



had this sky boom for over a year now, cheap auction purchase from ex local authority, tows with truck, runs of batterys 80 ft reach in height with about 30ft ou reach, scares the heck out of me up high haha

[lutonlagerlout]

its looking positively Mediterranean at the rugby pitch now giles that boom looks like it may be fun in high winds
LLL

[GB_Groundworks]

so ive got a pallet full of 300x300 sawn polished flags left over from a big patio, dont like this size hence why we rejected them haha, but as theotretically they stand me at £20/m + vat



and i dont want to hardcore them so was thinking maybe a charcoal paver edgeing to each one etc or the koja black sets etc boarder for each 300x300 unit?

back at big house for some little jobs bar decorated



lol at his name and number on pool table, but some nice shirts all signed by the players and i guess their shirts from swaps.





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