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lutonlagerlout
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Post: # 80809Post lutonlagerlout

had an emergency call today
a client of ours was trying to have a hot tub delivered but it wouldnt fit through his gate
so off to knebworth for a fry up as detailed elsewhere
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the only other option was lift it over the house for a grand with a crane

since we did some work there last year he has had a patio laid but now has problems with damp
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I wonder why?????? :laugh:

when he asked me how to fix it i said drop the high level 150mm
shame cos it has a fair design to it,just shame about the levels
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few crosses etc but overall a fair job
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Post: # 80842Post haggistini

We are a minority of tradesmen in this country who give a monkeys and know or try and do jobs right I'm falling out of love with paving and (construction) in genral!
Even that penis wannabe biker from rouge traders been fcuking us over claiming benefits ...
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Post: # 80843Post haggistini

He should have it easy inside tho ....
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Post: # 80844Post haggistini

Nice job btw LLL weathers looking better for us :-/????
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Post: # 80846Post lutonlagerlout

the chipies pitched it today, I was breaking up a 15 year old readmix garage floor laid by guess who?
at the time if i had known they would want to convert the gargae 15 years later i wouldnt have laid it 150mm thick
completely wrecked 3 SDS max points on the breaker and only done half of it :(
c'est la vie
looks like that yellow thing may be coming out next week :)
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Post: # 80848Post haggistini

Sds on that LLL? Where was your fork??
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Post: # 80851Post Dave_L

Surely would have been quicker and cheaper to go and hire a beaverpack Tone?
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Post: # 80852Post Pablo

Dave_L wrote:Surely would have been quicker and cheaper to go and hire a beaverpack Tone?
You're talking to the man who'd rather hand dig a swimming pool than do it with a digger that would be far to easy an option. :D
Can't see it from my house

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Post: # 80853Post Dave_L

Pablo wrote:
Dave_L wrote:Surely would have been quicker and cheaper to go and hire a beaverpack Tone?

You're talking to the man who'd rather hand dig a swimming pool than do it with a digger that would be far to easy an option. :D
"Hand dig a swimming pool" - I don't think you're far from the truth Pablo!

Call me lazy but I hired a 008 Micro to dig a base for an 8' x 6' shed base last week, I was constantly asking myself if I would have wanted to hand dig it and the answer was "No!!"
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Post: # 80858Post lutonlagerlout

in retrospect a compressor and jackhammers would have done it quicker,but when i tried a test spot it was only 100mm thick
sds max are great demolition hammers
just not on old thick and strong concrete
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i love diggers but a time and a place
if it is going to reduce someones garden to the somme for the sake of 2 days hand digging then i hand dig
but if the access is right and the job warrants it then i use whatever i can
sadly most of the council stuff we do is very tight access
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Post: # 80862Post Carberry

lutonlagerlout wrote:in retrospect a compressor and jackhammers would have done it quicker,but when i tried a test spot it was only 100mm thick
sds max are great demolition hammers
just not on old thick and strong concrete
re:plant
i love diggers but a time and a place
if it is going to reduce someones garden to the somme for the sake of 2 days hand digging then i hand dig
but if the access is right and the job warrants it then i use whatever i can
sadly most of the council stuff we do is very tight access
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Get the sledgehammer out!

wish i could find one heavier than 16lbs, if i don't have concrete to hit with it then i hit a truck tyre for a workout.

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Post: # 80863Post dig dug dan

i extended a pond by 18" yesterday and increased the depth by 6".
I did it by hand, and counldn't understand why when i have a digger sitting in the yard??
a moment of madness.
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Post: # 80869Post lutonlagerlout

try chopping out tree stumps with a mattock stewart
2 -3 hours of that and you will feel it
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Post: # 80871Post GB_Groundworks

Carberry wrote:
lutonlagerlout wrote:in retrospect a compressor and jackhammers would have done it quicker,but when i tried a test spot it was only 100mm thick
sds max are great demolition hammers
just not on old thick and strong concrete
re:plant
i love diggers but a time and a place
if it is going to reduce someones garden to the somme for the sake of 2 days hand digging then i hand dig
but if the access is right and the job warrants it then i use whatever i can
sadly most of the council stuff we do is very tight access
LLL

Get the sledgehammer out!

wish i could find one heavier than 16lbs, if i don't have concrete to hit with it then i hit a truck tyre for a workout.
weve got a 24lbs and a 48lber i'll get some pics on tuesday when im back at the yard, got them out of an old crane yard we demo'd for gallifords.

one swing with the 48lb is hard work and pretty dangerous hehe
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Post: # 80874Post lutonlagerlout

14lb had no effect whatsoever on that slab
like i say we used readymix around about my 28th birthday and it has been covered ever since
hard as you like
photos to follow it will be out today come hell or high water
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