Cobbles

[GB_Groundworks]

been preping a car park for mot today scraping off the exisitng layer of plainings un earthed a cobble then another one then a few more so got out and saved them for the pile, then dug a bit deeper and hit a cobble mine. had 40 tons out already into the tractor and trailer and home, proper nice big cobbles from old road some huge ones like 400mmx400mm all with nice smooth face.

dad says he used to let his mate tip here in the 70's when he had the council rd contract so be the old roads dug up to make way for bitmac. nice when you get a result, had the riddle bucket on the 3cx making it easier to get them. given up now otherwise id keep going haha proper cobble fever kept spotting them everywhere, swapped them for some brick hard core lol







had to take out some monster stumps, well tress that had been filled rd, so root ball was 3 metres deep took an good 30 mins each stump









and would you believe it i turn my back for 2 seconds to make a brew this car pulls up and fire bombs the stack of stumps id pulled out and neatly stacked,

[Mikey_C]

and would you believe it i turn my back for 2 seconds to make a brew this car pulls up and fire bombs the stack of stumps id pulled out and neatly stacked,

I hope you catch whoever did next time it could be something important, rather than just a load of what I am guessing were fairly slow burning (due to the wetness) tree stumps.

I guess you managed to keep at bay any urges to throw non combustible waste (such as say aerosols) on the fire and start attacking them with an axe.

[digerjones]

hell fire giles them cobbles must be £1 each. worth more than crappy hardcore, keep digging.

[GB_Groundworks]

Erm pain like you've never known tends to motivate you not to do it again

[msh paving]

sell em' to cookie, bypass steptoe's bit in the middle.....

MSH

[GB_Groundworks]

There going onto our pile at yard, got about 100 tons at home so keep adding

There's a fibre optic running through it connected to mobile phone mast bad bad news if I find that

[lutonlagerlout]

they are SETTS giles !!!!!
LLL :laugh:

[ilovesettsonmondays]

big bstrd ones too

[haggistini]

what a cracking day you've had giles digging like billyhoe finding buried treasure and a full burn up at the end of the day! a couple of cold 1's job done!

[GB_Groundworks]

they are SETTS giles !!!!!
LLL :laugh:

No they're cobbles haha, well rd this way anyway

We have a cobbled hill upto our house and a cobbled drive so there cobbles. The old cobble streets of Manchester? Coronation street? Etc we call them cobbles rd here Tony

[mickg]

I hope your well insured for when you rip the fibre optic cable out Giles

[GB_Groundworks]

I've stopped digging and made good, I'd hand dug and found the duct anyway. I put the duct and the base in for the tower, so had a good idea. Ripped through fibre optic before, sky's link from sale sharks old ground to satellite uplink, can't be repaired has to be relaid. Lucky for me was 30 metres from where they'd marked it on plans

£10 million public liability Mick



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[carlbeardsmore]

They will tell you that Giles but I have done many a fibre splice. You just need the right kit. Probably the repair team just do a splice but charge you for a full run.

[haggistini]

we hit one a few years ago as wide as a mcdonalds straw took out confused.com there was plenty confused for next day or so :p .. cost about 40k :O

[GB_Groundworks]

Rigged a few fibre networks in Munich but never had to splice them, done straight connections but how do you splice glass strands?