New alderly edge job

[Mikey_C]

That fella is a certifiable lunatic he'll be all over your plant when you go home.

for the right price, i'm sure giles will let him tear round the garden in it!

[Dave_L]

The thing is, after you've been stopped and found to be flouting rules, your OCRS score will drop like a stone and set your 'flag' to red...meaning you are likely to be stopped again sometime in the very near future.

I'm all for VOSA pulling unsafe vehicles, but I'd like to see them near scrapyards etc as the amount of overloaded and unsafe vehicles I see going to the big one near us is almost unbelieveable, rather than target us guys trying to make an honest living.

[Dave_L]

We got pulled by VOSA with the JCB on the back of our wagon (daf45) last week.
got a fixed penalty as it was SLIGHTLY off center, had to move it about 3inches back:rock:
£180 i think the fine was.

To attract a £180 fine you must have been a very bad boy!!

Graduated penalties for overloading/tacho offences

[Kuts]

The machine was too far to the front, il dig out the paperwork and see what they put it down as.

[Dave_L]

Yeah, you'd have been overloaded on the front axle, very commonplace and easy to do on a 7.5t wagon.

[GB_Groundworks]

had a busy day today digging out and carting away, moved the 8 ton to strip the top soil on the field the spoils going in on a local farm to level it out, new labourer, brother of plumber whos "ex army engineers can drive anything" tipped the 1 ton dumper over almost into the trailer tipping it off the ledge no idea how he did it, but he jumped clear and i pulled it back level with the 3 ton.

some bad news though, the existing restaining walls are just dry stone on strip footing and no footings, house was only built 2002 no idea what they were thinking retaining 4m of earth in 2 steps across 2 meters with no concrete or block in them

our engineer meeting at 8am, might have to sheet pile the thing

[haggistini]

Tried to get the picture today of our ford rangers back end 3 ft in the air loading the machine "un fecking believable" !
Don't think I'll take the machine down on that to our next job at a VOSA test station the female manager wants me but her thighs are huge! BTW!
:laugh:
Pics to follow!

[GB_Groundworks]

done that before haggi, legs down on trailer hehe

[GB_Groundworks]

so structural engineer been today and is drawing up a reinforced concrete wall we will build in 3 section to retain the garage and drive that they hadnt when they built the house. going to add 5-8k to the job i reckon,

been shifting muck last two days getting 16 dumper loads into the trailer









existing walls not very deep



lower wall no footing for it, old school style





they are always in the wrong place



a large sandstone pebble in the sand

[GB_Groundworks]

the future or even the now chaps, meeting with structural engineer at 8am, 11am drawing arrives by email and we set about digging it out per drawing gotta love technology

[GB_Groundworks]

fun starts tomorrow, 20 4.5m piles to install so we can continue the concrete wall...



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[DNgroundworks]

Great stuff Giles, im yet to do any sheet piling, looks fun

[Dave_L]

I'd want that extra detailed and watertight money-wise before commencement - are you working under an architect?

I hate extras, absolutely hate them.

[GB_Groundworks]

its ok the guys cool and we are doing a 150k extension, hes got 100k of push bikes in the garage so he aint going to stiff us. infact hes throwing work at us if we want it but its all over the country and europe.

we are using our architect and structural engineer but my sister is project managing the job, see does it for a living well shes sorting the interior out we are doing the exterior gonna be a good job. i did a timelapse of us piling today until the next door neighbour stormed into the garden complaing we had to stop because her house has no footing and it might affect her house,

i told her for £200k we could underpin it all and give it some footings she didnt seem to take it well haha fecking nimby's



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[GB_Groundworks]

2 timelapses i made but messed up both though lol

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=86qSr65MLEY

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_rFC3L11sqM

sheet pilling one, card got full so had to put a new one in but didnt spot it, big pauses were for irate neighbour negotiations and our french client makes great coffee , machines is going home tomrrow for engine out and new seals, liners and what every else as can be seen its breathing hard. 4.5m 8mm piles, hammer weighs 600kg, each pile about 300-400kg i reckon if not more.

concrete one id some how set it to stop after 377 frames so then had to re start it, i was loading concrete into the dumper with 3 ton as we are 5 feet up of the street.



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