Recent work

[rimexboy]

LLL while your there change the corner braket on the guttering....

[lutonlagerlout]

corner bracket changed rimex :;):
(and i did actually change it)
onwards and upwards
new job started monday
bit of demo to kick things off
















so 5 skips of hardcore taken away,roof timbers recycled to the allotment association
messr Digdugdan kindly hired us a crusher and a further skip ful of hardcore becomes 10 tonnes of type 1
save the planet
tomorrows job stripping this roof



anyone need 1400 plain clay tiles ???
going cheep cheep
footings monday at the other job
cheers LLL

[lutonlagerlout]

roof all gone ,timber gone to allotment and tiles going on ebay
beautiful day down here in sunny luton!
anyone fancy a virtual peesh up?
LLL

[dig dug dan]

looks good tony (although i did see it first hand). What are you doing up at 4 in the morning?

[lutonlagerlout]

the early bird catches the worm :;):
LLL

[digerjones]

tony, could'nt you have crushed all the hardcore and got rid of it somewhere else. even crushed it into the skip and done a deal with skip firm. only my thoughts. i live in the countryside with plenty of room.

[haggistini]

How long would it take to crush 10T with that size crusher tony?

A couple of snaps







Let's hope the weather stays like this...

[ilovesettsonmondays]

nice work hag, how much do the little setts cost a metre and how many in a crate or will they split a crate .

[Mikey_C]

me and the old man (aka not so quick on his feet now days) did 14 overflowing ton bags in about 7 hours, loading by hand.

[GB_Groundworks]

Nice work tony, make sure they get you to sort the paving out hehe

did you get rid of the tiles? Our local roofing supply/contractor will buy most roofs and come strip them for you etc

Most skips places either deliver the hardcore direct for sub base etc fill in bad ground or have the big crushers and crush it themselves. What's it work out at?I Can buy 20 tons of virgin limestone mot for £220 Inc vat at mo, so you've got say £70-90 labour, then the cost of the hire? Does the math work out for a lesser product?

Is it per dtp type 1 803 sieve sizing? Seems some large stuff at bottom of piles Inc half bricks, is it more "hard core" as opposed to type 1 in a true technical sense?

[lutonlagerlout]

it took the labourer 6 hours to crush the pile,its only guestimate on the amounts as its hard to tell
about 1.5 skips clean hardcore = £225 to remove
plus would need to import 10-12 tonnes of type 1 = £250
so roughly £475

crusher hire £150
labourer say 2 days to include moving the stuff £160
diesel £7.10
=£317.10
so there is a saving,the thing to remember is that the crusher has 1 speed,in the past we have had 2 men loading and its too much and just slows it down,1 man loading and moving the crusher works well
also we had to use water as the dust was quite bad

i asked the BCO and she said as long as it goes through a 35mm gap its fine to use,the 2 half batts were a brick that paul noticed after we had finished and washed the crusher. i said throw it on the pile

the crusher works well but you need the room
most of our jobs we dont have the room so the stuff gets binned
the 1 thing it does do is it helps people with their eco aspirations,that job is having 30k of solar panels fitted so re suing the aggregate helps their green credentials

i wouldnt say its an inferior product,as we did it our selves we know there is no mud,cement bags or timber in it


BTW very nice work haggi ,a man after my own heart with all those lines
cheers LLL

[msh paving]

Nice work tony, make sure they get you to sort the paving out hehe

did you get rid of the tiles? Our local roofing supply/contractor will buy most roofs and come strip them for you etc

Most skips places either deliver the hardcore direct for sub base etc fill in bad ground or have the big crushers and crush it themselves. What's it work out at?I Can buy 20 tons of virgin limestone mot for £220 Inc vat at mo, so you've got say £70-90 labour, then the cost of the hire? Does the math work out for a lesser product?

Is it per dtp type 1 803 sieve sizing? Seems some large stuff at bottom of piles Inc half bricks, is it more "hard core" as opposed to type 1 in a true technical sense?

with our micro crushers the finished product size can be adjusted from 70mm to 15\20mm type 1 sizing is no problem,the larger crush size quicker it is,i usually do the last 3-4t to 30mm for final grading,your lucky you can buy limestone at that price last week in bedford i was paying £15t for granet fill from croft quarry near MT sorrel,.type 1 with ticket £16t, east anglia price for type one ranges £15-22 ton crushed concrete or crushed rail ballast to type 1 is £16t MSH



Edited By msh paving on 1302437362

[GB_Groundworks]

lll only say inferrior due to that study i found where it showed the los angeles wearing test result from crushed brick was like 500 compared to limestone which was 5000 or something i posted it on that thread, but most bought in crusher run has everyting inc the kitchen sink in it

mark we are in the heart of the penines lots of mountains to dig out and crush hehe hence cheap stone etc

[dig dug dan]

there is rumour of an aggregate tax coming in on quarried stone, in order to try and make us all recycle, yet on the other hand, the crusher operators licences make it costly to own anything bigger than 15hp you can't win with the government!

[lutonlagerlout]

the bricks we crushed were all semi engineering types so i guess they will hold up
its the transport costs that add up down south
mind you we get sand a lot cheaper as we have multiple sand pits in a 10 miles radius
just no stone
LLL