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thats graham my dads foreman, hes worked for a local civils firm before coming to work for my dad 20 odd years ago hes great, works all day and has wealth of exprerience started on the drag lines has his hgv and all his tickets etc. and just gets on with it what ever you are doing, hes best machine man ive every worked with very neat and smooth and always keeps a tidy excavation.
the photo i posted of the preistman and me as a lad its him driving the machine, his wife has worked for us as well for as long.
just poured last 5m today didnt stop all day propping and getting shutters sorted etc then concrete in. had a slight bulge in one bit but its all ok.
will post some pics up later, and no hes not a lover of the south although he retired to south of spain 2 years ago. did 8 months of doing his house, garden up his neaighbours and everyone elses then couldnt hack doing nothing so came back and pops back and forth
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the photo i posted of the preistman and me as a lad its him driving the machine, his wife has worked for us as well for as long.
just poured last 5m today didnt stop all day propping and getting shutters sorted etc then concrete in. had a slight bulge in one bit but its all ok.
will post some pics up later, and no hes not a lover of the south although he retired to south of spain 2 years ago. did 8 months of doing his house, garden up his neaighbours and everyone elses then couldnt hack doing nothing so came back and pops back and forth
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orientated strain board is the cheapest crap you can get, all its used for is shed roofs and boarding broken windows. sheathing ply painted with realease oil gives a nice smooth finish and no it doesnt swell at all. as its the face not the edge exposed to the water.
more pics to come....
more pics to come....
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im well out of date, finished this last week
a393 on the bottom 40mm cover a193 on top 35 cover! 200mm spacers
l bars every 200mm 12mm
bit of a bugger due to tight site no pump etc all had to be hand dragged to kicker ot fill it, C35 as well so was setting fast
few passes with the big blue
building our modular shutters
dont forget your release oil
a393 on the bottom 40mm cover a193 on top 35 cover! 200mm spacers
l bars every 200mm 12mm
bit of a bugger due to tight site no pump etc all had to be hand dragged to kicker ot fill it, C35 as well so was setting fast
few passes with the big blue
building our modular shutters
dont forget your release oil
Giles
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yes we are stood on the shutters but no where else to go and no you big civil lads customers wont pay for scaffold
6m3 c35
what happens when 18 stone mis steps and lands on his trusty stabila of ten years
nice pile of shutters for future use
ready for an cavity and inner skin of block, stone clad on the outside
just see far back corner of the wall we were a barrow full short level drops off but brickies can sort that hehe
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garage/feed store/nuclear bunkerhenpecked wrote:Go on then, give it up. what were you making?
engineer spec'd it we built it crazy 19m3 of c35 crete in it
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Haha sod your gauging not my problem lol, my drawing specified certain heights I just build what the engineer says but yep massively over engineered.
But seriously it's got a block wall off the tow beam on the inside then random stone off the reinforced wall so how do you gauge for random stone? We did scratch us heads over it and for a few mins haha
Yep 100mm drain wrapped in geo behind and visqueen brought up and through the damp then delta drain tanking on it as well filled with granular fill but let the bricks get muck every where first before that
just to please the brickies when i put all the materials back on the slab i left a pack of block inthe line of the blockwork so they'd have to unstrack it all haha, got to be some fun on site lol then took my telehandler away. the builders a lad ive played rugby with for 15 years.
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But seriously it's got a block wall off the tow beam on the inside then random stone off the reinforced wall so how do you gauge for random stone? We did scratch us heads over it and for a few mins haha
Yep 100mm drain wrapped in geo behind and visqueen brought up and through the damp then delta drain tanking on it as well filled with granular fill but let the bricks get muck every where first before that
just to please the brickies when i put all the materials back on the slab i left a pack of block inthe line of the blockwork so they'd have to unstrack it all haha, got to be some fun on site lol then took my telehandler away. the builders a lad ive played rugby with for 15 years.
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haha just do what they ask, id say sure but its 5pm on a friday well get another barrow delivered on monday that'll be 350 plus the crete or you can make it up with your block haha.
had amental week this week close to 80 hours on 2 health centres for nhs. will add photos tomorrow. wine and feet up now had a typical friday. cast a track and lost a top roller on machine. had to fix that, priced some footing for a builder he got a guy in with a 1.5 tonner to do them now hit bad ground and an old concrete pilling needs to go to 15 foot with the footings so wants us to ride in and save him, but hes at the back of the queue at mo so busy.
got lots to upadate, the soft play centre is coming on great my little lad had first play today on his own hehe.
anyway wine and new ax men to watch
had amental week this week close to 80 hours on 2 health centres for nhs. will add photos tomorrow. wine and feet up now had a typical friday. cast a track and lost a top roller on machine. had to fix that, priced some footing for a builder he got a guy in with a 1.5 tonner to do them now hit bad ground and an old concrete pilling needs to go to 15 foot with the footings so wants us to ride in and save him, but hes at the back of the queue at mo so busy.
got lots to upadate, the soft play centre is coming on great my little lad had first play today on his own hehe.
anyway wine and new ax men to watch
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so 2 medical centre jobs for new consulting rooms made out of mobile type cabin things. pad footings scrape off to accommodate the steel under structure and a drain connection, blind off with stone. doing these unseen company we were working for said light scrape off haha lol, theyd not put levels on it though. had to do reinforced strip footings as drain in the way.
had to go remove a tree that had been blown over at the bottom of our hill wednesday am
funny the stuff you find
going to put a lifting eye in each and keep them
more fun anyone spot whats going on under here haha, bco isnt going to like it
light scrape off, lol 500mm later to allow the new cabin to sit at current floor level. 90 tons out but luckily had another job which needed landscaping 2 miles away muck away on one, soil import on the other.
had to go remove a tree that had been blown over at the bottom of our hill wednesday am
funny the stuff you find
going to put a lifting eye in each and keep them
more fun anyone spot whats going on under here haha, bco isnt going to like it
light scrape off, lol 500mm later to allow the new cabin to sit at current floor level. 90 tons out but luckily had another job which needed landscaping 2 miles away muck away on one, soil import on the other.
Giles
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