Last few weeks in pictures

[Pablo]

Jeez thats a serious bit of kit MSH I could make a good guess at what it cost does it get you much work?

[msh paving]

I've bought them all at the right price,over time,the is a 130mm on ebay at mo. for £4500,i dont do as much as i would like,moled under santa pod 1/4 mile last summer took the discovery for a burn on the 1/4 mile.....

[Pablo]

Best keep the time to yourself infact I bet the mole beat it LOL.

[Al Jardin]

Msh
How do you maintain accuracy of depth etc?

Al

[msh paving]

you dig the 2 pits to same leval,set mole off leval using a sprit leval and a sighting device and ranging rod, basic thing is it works on a gun teliscopic sight,mark the rod at same depth as sight and line the 2 together,once set off there is very little if any devation as long as it set to target leval it will stay leval,you don't do grade work with a standard mole,the skill is knocking the ranginging rod over when it gets into the second pit...... MSH

[GB_Groundworks]

Got 200m in onlynanother 300 to go





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[Pablo]

Bloody hell Giles you've used some amount of wood on that job would it not have been cheaper to do the fencing in 8ft mesh with HTS top middle and bottom. Think of all the poor wee birdies without a home now. Sob sob

[GB_Groundworks]

The fence on the right is the neighbours, without pp. We're doing 500m post and rail better for those birdies and other wildlife than mesh lol

He's abit strange, he complained against the new pitches for the 400 minis we have on a Sunday as he might want to grow fruit trees in the futurevand a stray ball might damage his proposed fruit!!

[Pablo]

Aye those 8yr old can give that ball a fair thump alright. Haha

[GB_Groundworks]

Are you meant to have 13 tons on block paving hehe





Ground was like concrete yesterday hopefully after in raining all night it'll be easier


stretching out 120m of string line our way




the four kestrel cjicks in our barn have started to fledge
only had my iphone but put it on a binocular and it worked well





and when the kestrels arent watching you the foal and its mum have decieded the barns theres to escape the heat and flies





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[London Stone Paving]

You seem to rattle through a lot of work Giles. How many guys you got working for you? Or should I say how many machines have you got on your books

[lutonlagerlout]

i never realised there was so much work in 1 rugby pitch.
I know its been a hospital job ,but there must have been 1000s of tonnes moved on that pitch
when will it be ready for the first game?
and will you be there?
LLL

[GB_Groundworks]

Were on the other pitches now, new rfu regulations say league matches cant be played on Un fenced pitches, so installing 250m fencing on 2nd team pitch, to stop everyone always playing on the 1st team pitch.

Got to fertiziles the 3 existing pitches which is fun trying to buy 3 ton of fertiziler without practically giving DNA samples.

We moved over 20k tons to make the 2 new pitches over 3k of drains 500 m roads, 500m fencing, 1000 tons of 10mm stone, 2 new changing rooms, now just waiting on the seeding but need a low ground pressure tractor to seed it so trying to borrow one now, got 50x25kg bags of seed to go on. Be ready next season.

To be fair were just fettling now trying to get it billiard table smooth and jumping through the hoops of planning permission on it so environmental studies, traffic studies etc once we get planning we get a £120k payment from rfu.

My phones been full so not taken any of the mundane strip footings or clearance work but cleared it last night.

Just 2 of us normally then I've got good local farming Lads who can sub in on the machines. We've got about 20 pieces of plant from ride on rollers to 16 ton excavators.

Got our old jcb 3cx turbo up for sale if anyone wants one

[Pablo]

Lovely to see those Kestrel chicks do they nest there every year Giles.

[digerjones]

how much for the 3cx giles