Last few weeks in pictures

[GB_Groundworks]

yeah its 10mm sma on that as well, only small cars but steep. i'll tell them but this up north lol doesnt get that warm haha

[Dave_L]

I only say that coz I've still got a driveway with problems even when surfaced with 50pen SMA(that's black concrete to those of you who haven't laid any)......VW Golf parked facing downhill and the rear wheels have "torn" the surface away (cracks) in two places. Fresh Tarmac and the sun don't go.....

[Dave_L]

FWIW a normal Tarmac would be in a 125pen bitumen.....

[GB_Groundworks]

so back on at the rugby club new pitches and other work

neighbour told us she'd had lanes drains put a drain into our field to stop it flooding her house few years ago before the club bought the land, basically tresspassed but helps us as weve got somewhere to drain all our rugby pitches into now. so lanes had charged her thousands and we found an absolute abortion of a job...

put first the evolution of a pond





2nd temp pond as first one wasnt big enough



amazing the difference few dry weeks can have





so back to the drain

they've sat a 600x400 ic over an old stone suff drain sat on flags and a flag ontop. by suff i mean a u shape drain maybe 250 wide made out of field stones.



was completely silted up



big hole



so it goes into that small chamber in 12" salt glaze thats collapsed some where under the hedge and blocked solid

[GB_Groundworks]

the 12" salt glaze is then connected to a 24" vitrous clay pipe with no reducer or concrete haunching just open.



so the 24" runs for 2 metres then has some 8" cast iron stuck in the end again with no reducer or haunch etc



going to rip it all out and replace with 150 plastic land drain

digging out the old ic





phone died so missed ring setting replaced it with a 1000x750 ic and proper lid



last two jobs on nhs





all done time to get paid

[GB_Groundworks]

got to put a rd in to connect the new pitch to the club





normally wed just mark it out and dig it off but i had the idea of running the rotivator over it to mark out and lossens the soil up etc and cut to perfect 150mm consistent depth and width and makes corners easier etc as it as you would drive with a car etc. great idea hehe.









so now just scrape it off with the big machine load it onto the tracked dumper and fill some low spots up on the new pitch

whiles its nice and dry started rotivating the new pitches for final grade and stone removal and seed bed prep



doing the other end of the drain, silt trap where the 2500 metres of 4" land drain come off the pitch





night night machines haha





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[henpecked]

That old bloke must be strong as Garth!!!

[digerjones]

That old bloke must be strong as Garth!!!

that made me laugh must of had plenty of redbull.
at least when you,ve been over it with the rotivator it chops up all the turf, suppose the down side is it bulks it up, good idea giles

[GB_Groundworks]

got our neighbour with his 4m parrow harrow on the pitch project

been ask to look at fixing this drive, its sunk where the range rover parks. not sure whats under it or how it was laid etc. original contractor gone awol.

im thinking lift and relay but they want to do it as cheap as possible, he asked me if i could run our twin drum over the other side i said not as it might damage the blocks





20mm drop



got these in it as well





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[lutonlagerlout]

got to lift and relay the sunken section at least giles,rolling it wont help
that pitch will be a bowling green by the time you lads are done,thats been on the go for 6 months now?
hospital job?
LLL

[GB_Groundworks]

yeah ive said that to them,

erm no its been weather dependent its had to dry out to get the big tractors on, we literally plastered wet slop onto it before the soil went back. wouldnt even support a man on foot so had to leave it and grass wont grow in winter. machines have been back and forth a few times in 8 months since we started stripping the soil, but its for our club so its being done more as a labour of love than a commercial project.

the idea is to be bowling green flat

[Stuarty]

Surely if your clients can run a Range Rover Sport and a 10 plate Audi A3 they can afford to get their drive done properly :p

[Mikey_C]

Surely if your clients can run a Range Rover Sport and a 10 plate Audi A3 they can afford to get their drive done properly :p

no because they spent the money on the cars :p

[lutonlagerlout]

Surely if your clients can run a Range Rover Sport and a 10 plate Audi A3 they can afford to get their drive done properly :p

plus ca change, mon ami
plus ca change.....
LLL

[Carberry]

Laid some cobbles.


Had a driveway and patio to dig out:




Got my number 1 driver on the job:


A few hours of digging and sammy had the hardcore down:


Laid 30m2 of indian sandstone:


Concreted in the arch posts and fence post you can see in the corner. Had to take the lid off the arch as whoever put it in had the arch squint with the legs too close in. Going to nail it back on tomorrow.



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