Cheshire job part 1 - Work hard play hard eat like kings!

[cookiewales]

ah thats cuato mark good cooking there giles steak was that tender you could cut with a wooden knife :;): :;):

[haggistini]

Big slabs having a rite thumping !

[GB_Groundworks]

are you using a silo? bet that makes it so much easier than mixing all day

[cookiewales]

silo is the best we have used 35 ton allready and its strong gear 4to1 when wet for haunching its the bees

[London Stone Paving]

Whats a silo? some kind of ready mix?

[Carberry]

Whats a silo? some kind of ready mix?

An onsite silo (big metal things normally used by farmers for storing grain etc ) filled with dry mix.

[DNgroundworks]

Question for cookie! With the dry mix do you not find that you end up with a few rockers and hollow sounding flags for the customer to moan about??

[Pablo]

dry mix is fine with those thick flags Dan as long as they're bedded well they stay where they are. It's best to add a bit of water just to get it to go off better you can also get the silo to add some plasticiser and sbr if you're using thinner paving. I occasionally use them if we've got the space they do work out cheaper.

[haggistini]

The silo has an adjustable water setting with a consistent 4 to 1 shape sand mortar mix.we are using a semi dry mix then top up the joints to about 30mm from paving surface then soak the paving which then setts the mix like concrete!!!

[London Stone Paving]

Mega impressed with that. How much does it cost to get one of those on site?

Anyway, lets get onto the serious business Hagg, whats for dinner?

[msh paving]

I heard from cookie they gone home for weekend........MSH

[London Stone Paving]

Shame, have to wait till Monday for the next installement

[rab1]

most sites i work on have these, one had 6.

[haggistini]

Here you go steve more pics Monday

[lutonlagerlout]

its the dinner we want pics of haggi!!
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