New alderly edge job

[GB_Groundworks]

was going to be a massive concrete wall but we couldnt drive the piles in enough with out bringing all the neighbours houses down on us so we opted for gabions as we could build them modular and dig out the material from infront of the piles then work our way rd a metre at a time.

so originally i talked the client into hand stacked gabions, but the mrs wanted brick so we just rough filled them.

dan they are 1mx1mx1m and there is 80 tons of 100-200mm limestone in them. to do it all in block would be a ball ache, slow and not have the interlock or the mass of this.

to clad the brickie will build a single skin wall and make his own brick ties out of the galvanisised wire from the gabion to the wall then it will be filled with c35 concrete in 400mm lifts.

its all about the mass to withstand the overturning forces. its 3.5metre high and set at a 5% lean back off plumb

in order to concrete wed have had to dig it all out and have a massive slab and toe beam then a 400 thick wall all with 20mm rebar dowels as mesh doesnt go that big, so was easier and cheaper to do it this way and we didnt destroy any houses although we had to send a decorator to fill some plaster cracks in the house above after wailing on the piles with the vibro hammer.

finished the wall off today ready for the brickies next week while we run off to do fencing and patio prep

took 3 ton and dumper away tonight hehe

i'll add some pics if i get time



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[lutonlagerlout]

am i being slow or did that digger bucket look the wrong way round?
LLL

[msh paving]

am i being slow or did that digger bucket look the wrong way round?
LLL

well spotted Tony, the bucket was backwards make filing the gabbion boxes easier and getting the stone outa trailer, you dont get as much in bucket ,
MSH

[GB_Groundworks]

its a popular trick for us machine boys makes it easier, i do it as well when loading against something or from a large pile, you can push against the pile hehe, turns the machine into loading shovel

fully hydraulic quick hitches make it so easy to swap them rd

can move 12 ton of stone in under 10 mins that way into the cages

[GB_Groundworks]

cleaned up the site, bloody brickies



what i have to back up and then turn into a drive its a fun one with 12 tons in the trailer





loaded up for monday morning

[dig dug dan]

how did you load that neuson onto the trailer? did the kubota lift it??

[GB_Groundworks]

no with the 16 tonner, if just fitted on the other way but id forgot to shut the kubota door so lifted it up and span it rd, weighs about a ton i think

our other js130 is 100yds from next job so can just lift it off

[GB_Groundworks]

we've run off to do another job for a week or two while the bricky gets the wall up infront of the gabions

doing 50 metres of fencing then they dropped the while you are here... so done path prep, raised patio prep, shed base, cleared some trees etc,

raised patio in slate no retaining wall dropp off, concrete slab to go on the "the fill" taken 35 tons of it out already but it all wants to go but builder we are doing it for doesnt want it. so ill reduce level, mot it. roll with pedestrian roller then cast 4 inch slab onto inner wall. not ideal but wont go anywhere





















i was in tractor so didnt have my edging trowels or any trowels infact just a plastic one to put a bevel on it but itll be ok only for a shed.

[GB_Groundworks]

for tony whos always going about groundworkers footings put that in your pipe and smoke it spoiling the brick layers hehe







you can just about lift 10 6'x1' gravel boards with a 3 ton hehe



loving our new dumper so handy, panels



fence going in, how many spirit levels can you see?





i was ribbing my mate for his shoddy work but turns out the home owner did this, hes a bank manager bought a can of low expanding foam, guess it wasnt





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[lutonlagerlout]

good stuff giles
nice to see the message getting through about level concrete :;):
if your mate ever wants to work down this way I will find a job for him
seems multiskilled to say the least
i could harp on about various HSE issues but that is Sean's job
plus it would be the pot calling the kettle black
nice stuff
any more from the master?
LLL

[GB_Groundworks]

we are all multi skilled tony the way it has to be, graham started as a bricklayer but got bored so worked for a big local civils firm driving drag lines he started at 15, hes 58 now, worked for us last 30 years so ive grown up with him. hes like family.

hes a great machine man and like me we but our hand to everything, he took some telling about spot bedding though. i do most the saw work though but was only hendges, i had my full helmet ear defenders and face shield and goggles on when i chopped the conifers down.

we hi viz up on commercial jobs but on little jobs in back garden we dont bother but always safety boots and gloves. weve worked together that long we know where each other are.

id trust graham to pick my nose with a machine and hed be the same

haha the master proved annoying with messing up my cookie log in on the cabin so no lol unless i spot some more crap paving.



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[lutonlagerlout]

although spot bedding is always wrong we took up spome council greys recently that had been spot bedded on 5 dabs of concrete
I hate to say it but not one had sunk
however us removing them cured the mice problem the people had had for 2 years
LLL

[GB_Groundworks]

rugby pitches we built just been sand banded





end one hadnt been set and concreted yet





had to step it for the garden falling away



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[GB_Groundworks]

having specified 7'6" high fence ont he raised patio the client now wants to drop it 1 foot after neighbour issues so weve got to pull them out and drop them 1 foot which is awkward with my transition panels i had made.

[GB_Groundworks]

altered the fencing today dropped it 6" a lot of effort for that

cracked a gravel board so had to get another one