The end is nigh - Cure for aching knees!!

mickavalon · Post: # 85170Post **mickavalon** Fri Dec 14, 2012 6:44 am

Has anybody seen this bit of kit before:

you tube you tube

It's like they predicted in Terminator!! Lol

mickavalon · Post: # 85171Post **mickavalon** Fri Dec 14, 2012 6:46 am

Think I pasted those links up wrong. One's on there, one isn't. You get the point though, and the first link was in johnny foreigner talk anyway.

Post: # 85174Post **Tony McC** Fri Dec 14, 2012 9:50 am

It's been knocking around for a while but its applications are limited. As long as you have long, straight, relatively narrow areas to pave, such as grid-layout streets, it works fine, but it can't interlock successive passes, it can't cope with curves, and you still have to do the cutting-in!

However, there are several other mechanical installers in the offing so keep watching.

mickavalon · Post: # 85183Post **mickavalon** Fri Dec 14, 2012 3:20 pm

Yeah, thought they'd be buggered with corners, must of been a Roman inventor.

Post: # 85205Post **Tony McC** Sat Dec 15, 2012 10:07 am

I've a big page covering machine-lay on the verge of being published. One particular manufacturer, and they know who they are, wanted to sponsor the page so that it featured only their products, and they have been promising for over 18 months to get me the images I need to complete the page and to replace the photies I already have which feature blocks from their competitors.

I keep asking "when?" and I keep getting told "soon", but it drags on and on, which annoys me because it should have been published in the summer of 2011 and here we are, staring down the barrel of 2013 and no nearer completion.

That page includes a section looking at all the weird and wonderful machines from all over the world that lay paving. Many of them would not look out of place emerging from a pod dropped by Thunderbird 2, which makes them even more fascinating.

So, while ***** get their act together, I'll plod on with expanding the coverage given to constructing cobble pavements, which should be the next page to be re-launched later this coming week.

mickavalon · Post: # 85241Post **mickavalon** Sun Dec 16, 2012 5:35 pm

We're doing a Project for a sheltered Housing complex for the Chinese community in Brum, and in our research we've been looking at loads of Cobble sett designs, very popular in Chinese traditional Gardens/streetscapes, I'll post a few up soon as I suss how. We're looking to construct some areas in cobbles, apparently they're good for reflexology??

Post: # 85251Post **Tony McC** Sun Dec 16, 2012 8:55 pm

I've heard that before about cobbles and reflexology, and you'll probably need a course of treatment after laying them!

I got the pages copmpleted and, although I say it myself, I'm really rather pleased with the 3D image I created of a cobble pavement construction. Definitely one of my better efforts!

cookiewales · Post: # 85260Post **cookiewales** Mon Dec 17, 2012 9:06 am

Tony McC wrote:I've heard that before about cobbles and reflexology, and you'll probably need a course of treatment after laying them!

I got the pages copmpleted and, although I say it myself, I'm really rather pleased with the 3D image I created of a cobble pavement construction. Definitely one of my better efforts!

looking good there not easy to lay

simeonronacrete · Thu Dec 20, 2012 1:07 pm

Nice new page Tony; very informative, and pretty too!

As to the subject title, I thought this was reference to the Mayans and their "End of the World" prediction. I've dealt with that issue by maxxing out my credit cards; if we're gonna die then no point worrying.

Nice knowing you all!

Carberry · Post: # 85336Post **Carberry** Thu Dec 20, 2012 4:21 pm

simeonronacrete wrote:Nice new page Tony; very informative, and pretty too!

As to the subject title, I thought this was reference to the Mayans and their "End of the World" prediction. I've dealt with that issue by maxxing out my credit cards; if we're gonna die then no point worrying.

Nice knowing you all!

There wasn't actually any prediction for the end of the world, their calendar just doesn't go beyond 21/12/12

Fri Dec 21, 2012 2:15 am

2.15 and we are still here
and the credit cards still need paying :;):
LLL

Post: # 85363Post **Tony McC** Fri Dec 21, 2012 9:55 am

The Mayans were based over in Mexico, so why is there all this focus on some mountain with a silly name in France? The Mayans didn't know of France, and even if they did, they couldn't afford the flights.

Look on the bright side: it's the longest night, so the lighter evenings are now heading our way!

Nigel Walker · Fri Dec 21, 2012 11:07 am

Nights gonna get lighter. Fantastic. I dont think I suffer form SAD, but it is not great going to work in the dark and and coming home in the dark. I fell sorry for those people who are affected by SAD
On the plus side, got 10 weeks of work booked in for new year so far. This is the most I have ever had for the beginning of the year.Normally you have 2-3 weeks and are hoping for the phone to ring.
Anyway finishing today and back on the 7th. Lazy days and boozy nights coming up. Lovely jubbly !

flowjoe · Post: # 85384Post **flowjoe** Sat Dec 22, 2012 10:12 am

Tony McC wrote:The Mayans didn't know of France

or apparently our calendar and therefore Leap years.

If they were correct i think it should of gone of big style about 3 years ago

Post: # 85397Post **Tony McC** Sat Dec 22, 2012 10:01 pm

Not to worry. Big Chief Vlad Putin has said we've got another 4.5 billion years before we finally balls it up completely, so there's an outside chance that, by then, Transco might have found that bloody phantom gas leak they've been chasing up and down Warrington Road for the last two decades on a regulary monthly basis. I'm sure they only dig up that section for 'practice'!