Last few weeks in pictures

[lutonlagerlout]

no harford 9?
LLL ???

[GB_Groundworks]

ok update time, 13 days in majorca back to the mud try and do it in chronological order

narrow bucket on 16 tonner



for filling the trenches with stone, modified it with 2 boards at 45 degree as well but forgot to take pic worked a treat with 10mm limestone



drains in and stoned up



villa cool exposed aggregate patio and in dinning room as well



5 mins walk from our villa (good day)



bad day


roads in valdermosa pitched limestone very smooth from all the traffic



palma

[GB_Groundworks]

nice bit of walling


liked these moarings used to stop traffic in palma



long reach on potoon, geeky me haha


so back from the sun to this



the girls on the soil pile, losgt half a day to fuel problem on the old one when diesel delivery was late, new filters and lines blown out got it running sweet again, not bad for a 17yr old girl.

we've used over 8000 diesel already, 250 ltr tanks on the machines empty in about 1.5 days of working solidly.





priced this for dig up and relay,just in mud at mo, spoke to the fanstatic mr cookie for advice, hes a top boy'o that man





won a tarmac job as well so get in and dig out and prep for surfacing lads, and got a big footing to do as well so working weekends to keep pushing rugby club job on.

guy across rd from rugby club job wants us to do footing for 5 bed house while we are there, easy one for us machines and tractors there and just loose spoil on pitch. just need planning permission to start digging it.

[lutonlagerlout]

the last 2 photies i really like them as they are giles
mallorca looks awesome,did you get to shagaluf?
LLL

[GB_Groundworks]

no was in deia, posh place in the mountains near valdamosa.

yeah but all sinking and rutted and pot holed, guy own the rd, last cobbled rd in out local town. might try and die the mortar if we get the job?

one guy had quoted to pitch point them,

gutter detail



from other end





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[Tony McC]

There's a good few of those cobbled roads and lanes around Cheshire, and a number of them have been 'reconstructed' over recent years, with highly variable results. The biggest problem is that the original method uses no cement but relies on grit, clay and horse shit as a sort of plasticiser-cum-binder.

The best reconstructions have used a black dyed high-bond mortar bed/jointing over a concrete base. I saw one on a barn conversion in Warrington where they slurried the jointing then acid-washed to clean up and it turned out not too bad, but the jointing was a little too wide for my taste, but it was still far better than similar projects using the awful pink bricklaying mortar we get in this part of the world.

[GB_Groundworks]

if we get it i was going to pick yours and cookies brains on the best way to do it.

it was funny having admired it in majorca to come home and be asked to quote on one.

giles



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[rab1]

Giles, you do a lot of esquarain works and your sister owns horses so on the horse shit part your sorted mate. just have to buy the grit etc. lol

[GB_Groundworks]

should have quoted for horse shit emailed me today, didnt get it. 4 quotes I was cheaper on same spec, 100mm mot,100mm 4:1 bedding, dyed slurry pointed but he went with lower spec because guy told him it would be alright and the cheapest option. im not lowering standards or buying work.

[rab1]

that happens to us a lot, everyone wants you to work for free or pay them for the privilege.

[GB_Groundworks]

day stated well nice sunny dry day then



pin fell out of the top link, retaining bolt must have sheered off



the pin



had to get the tracked dumper under to stand on it to get it back pinned up



20 mins fix but spoiled an otherwise productive day

[GB_Groundworks]

proper load on haha





got about another 100 metre of road to put in, paying £20 for an 20 ton 8 wheeler load of clean hardcore starting tomorrow as road base to firm up the sloppy before we stone up as we work our way out.

and all you whingers out there it only came from 100 yards away from a house on the private lane overlooking the fields we are in, builder bough house and took down an extension that had sunk and been underpinned 25 years ago but you could tell it was naff. im putting the new footings in on friday, grub out the old underpinning etc.



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[GB_Groundworks]

home time tonight



how far does your average uk pub go? about 170m when laid 500mm thick

Rip the Greyhound, cheadle google link http://maps.google.co.uk/maps?f=....0,-4.13



reduced to 25 8 wheeler loads

my temp ponds keep getting bigger and deeper, its now about 2 metres deep!

[GB_Groundworks]

Fun job today cutting door ways into 6 inch concrete c40 factory made concrete panels

Had the big k1200 cut off saw on them, horrible job inside even with water suppression

[lutonlagerlout]

I did similar recently giles but even with dust suppression the fumes get to you big style
nice pics as per usual
LLL