Last few weeks in pictures

[GB_Groundworks]

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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[Mikey_C]

does the ply not swell/split to quickly from the water in the compo? i have always (and others I've seen) used osb, cheaper doesn't split/swell. don't get a smooth finish mind.

[GB_Groundworks]

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....

[GB_Groundworks]

im well out of date, finished this last week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

[henpecked]

Go on then, give it up. what were you making?

[GB_Groundworks]

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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[GB_Groundworks]

Go on then, give it up. what were you making?

garage/feed store/nuclear bunker

engineer spec'd it we built it crazy 19m3 of c35 crete in it

[henpecked]

I'd spec that if it was my own underground lair to take over the 'western hemisphere as we know it'

:laugh: :laugh:

I only asked because of the detail. Proper job and no mistake.

[lutonlagerlout]

its groundworkers like you giles that give us brickies the right hump :;):
what gauge are those steps?
are you installing a land drain?
looks a really over engineered piece of work from here
some people have more money than sense
LLL

[haggistini]

staggerd flat blocks would have done that surely? but heh it money!

[lutonlagerlout]

blocks no good haggi,what they have done there is all tied in to the base
too much rotational force for blocks,walls would have to be 900 wide :O
LLL

[GB_Groundworks]

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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[lutonlagerlout]

would it not be easier for them to work if its al lbackfilled?
it wont fall down thats for sure
and if a groundworker says to me "we were a barrow short"
i say "go and get another one then"
thats when the rare ups start
hehe
LLL :laugh:

[GB_Groundworks]

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

[GB_Groundworks]

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.