New alderly edge job

[DNgroundworks]

75000!! come on Dave spill...:p

[GB_Groundworks]

[DNgroundworks]

Whats the twinwall pipe for Giles?

[GB_Groundworks]

home made concrete pump worked really well, short length of pipe strapped into the concrete shoot and then into the pipe

[lutonlagerlout]

think i posted it before our blokes have an old kids slide about 5 metres long,which is handy
i must say that concrete has a groundworkers finish giles
me and you would be falling out if i had to lay on that :;):
interesting job all the same
LLL

[GB_Groundworks]

snapped that pre vibe, level, trowel and retrowel was heading up to clean up the .25 cube the driver dropped on the drive its getting burried the slab, reinforced wall off it clad in dry stone


only one i got as we were rushing off for early finish

[lutonlagerlout]

fair does
looks fun doing stuff like that
LLL

[GB_Groundworks]

busy week catchup

this was wednesday.... crazy weather here http://www.flickr.com/photos/cyberprop/sets/72157629740785899/

fitter fitted bracket to the two js's







the new wailers and tie rods have made it so much easier to shutter and pour the concrete wall, great investment in the future those. no more praying your shutters hold while you pour the crete hehe









bit of a ball ache but was only 3cube so didnt bother with a pump

[seanandruby]

How that shutter didn't blow is anyones guess. You never had any whalings at all, just strongback uprights spaced to far apart, bet the wall is a bit curvy. Very dodgy to have those men on top of that 'shutter' ??? Bad advertisement there Giles

[mickg]

to be honest Sean I saw it too and wondered how it stayed vertical

[GB_Groundworks]

it didnt creak or move once, it was propped off the shutters at the back and acros of the slab at the front, and tied to the wall we poured last week

sean we all dont have the luxury of working on 500million jobs were you can have what ever you want,

its braced against the kicker sat on the slab, that keeps it square checked it after we'd finished and it was plumb so its all ok with me

[seanandruby]

£2.5billion Giles A whaling along the top would pull it in and stop it warping as i can see it is. It just looks to dodgy for men up there, if it had blown......game over :;): No matter how big, or small, safety is important m8

[GB_Groundworks]

The shutters were all bolted together 1 bolt every foot on 3 sides. We propped the joints as well, I'd have liked more wailers to run them top and bottom but we didn't have enough, as we poured kept an eye on it not one creek or groan not just saying that,

As for the men on the shutter that's my dad and our foreman I trust them to take care I appreciate on big jobs you have brain dead idiots and no team interlock but there is something if your men are good and you know them there is less risk than on big site work with strangers.

End of the day its in to the engineers spec, if it's a bit curved it's not going to stop it doing its job, better than a block laid flat wall or as it was nothing retaining 4m of. Drive and garage.

It's being faced in dry stone so we've got room to straighten it,

[lutonlagerlout]

I'll get shot down for saying this but I thought it looked pretty tidy
i would have built the wall first and used that as the shutter,but i suppose that is a no-no as well?
we have done 3 cube like that with wheelbarows and buckets and it isnt much fun,rather not get pumps involved unless 100% needed as they always make me didgy
LLL

[GB_Groundworks]

That was the 6th pour so far all about 3 or 4 cube not worth the expense or hassle of cleaning up and washing out on the rd the .3-.5 cube left in a pump. Would have added 2-3k to use pumps and that just doesn't work out on these jobs. One bigger pour we'd have pumped it.