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lutonlagerlout
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Post: # 88066Post lutonlagerlout

funny i saw 1 sheet being trodden in but even with time lapse never saw any more?
looks a fair job from where i sit giles
your balls are on the line in big pours like that

RE dans job,we get stuff like that all the time,and the thing to remember is that without customers we have no work
so the customer gets exactly what they pay for

nice work both of you

I have been chippying this week ( a crime against humanity) but the lout goes where the $$$ is

cheers LLL :)
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Post: # 88067Post Dave_L

Same goes for bitmac surfacing - you only get one chance, balls on the line every time, bigstyle. Concrete and bitmac are very unforgiving!
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Post: # 88068Post lutonlagerlout

no,i tell a lie if you look closely you can see the mesh going in,but its only a frame or so
what was the lapse on that Giles?
1 frame a minute?

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Post: # 88073Post GB_Groundworks

1 frame every 5 seconds so at 24 frames a second video rate so 2 minutes become 1 second of video, there are 6000 photos in it.

I'm pleased with it, customer is here's to many more big pours :)
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Post: # 88088Post msh paving

Todays job, on the sand dunes at brancaster golf club norfolk,beach huts get covered in sand so had to dig one out for a new one to be built,new one constructed on stilts about 2 ft above sand,talking telephone numbers to buy one with a wating list, buy the way it was awfully cold there today cab door shut heater on
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job i'm working on at moment, sewer pumping main blocked up
was a tricky job sitting on dyke brink,with fence and concrete bund on other side more pics to follow
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Post: # 88092Post lutonlagerlout

that second one looks well tricky mark
one lapse and your in the drink
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Post: # 88093Post msh paving

you got it Tony, it was alot worse than that had to dig and fill my way forward, sitting on a concrete headwall, ground water at 3 ft digging 4-5ft, job is in a fertiliser plant ,110mm mm pipe blocked along 60m length with magnesium\phosphate mix sets like concrete,jetting guys used 12000psi jetter to get through it,relaying a section tommrow pix to follow MSH :)
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Post: # 88096Post Mikey_C

dig dug dan wrote:well spotted giles. Highways ahve insisted some sort of barrier remain to protect the pole (£20,000 to move it!)
it is mains power or telegraph? if it is telegraph they replace them when there are rotten and have been known to move them a bit at the same time, if you enquire about moving it the bloke that comes round to have a look decides if it is rotten.

now i wouldn't possible suggest that say a monkey in the pocket guy who comes round would be a lot cheaper than £20,000, but if I wanted one moved I wouldn't be paying £20,000.

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Post: # 88097Post dig dug dan

Funnily enough, the guy from bt arrived to "test" the pole (its phone not leccy)by tapping it with a hammer and poking a screwdriver in it, and he said its sound. before we arrived he could not get to it for the ivy!
The customer isn't bothered about paying to move it as he can still get two cars on his drive.
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i heard tale of a developer who had a troublesome oak tree int he way of his development entrance to the highway so he had a stolen banger car crashed into it then got it chopped down on safety grounds.....
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Post: # 88118Post haggistini

What a job! tapping lamp posts with a hammer and the odd monkey thrown in ...
Not much to report from South Wales boyos I've been muck shifting this week and setting a site up for some developers i got in with last year. on a day rate for me and the boys...well your not fighting when your marching I suppose!
15T Hyundai is a cracking bit of kit haven't driven a big one since my test I was a bit twitchy for the first hour...

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Had the van licked

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Little railing job for local TP nice Saturday morning job


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Post: # 88119Post haggistini

Nice work Giles,MSH,and dan BTW..!
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Post: # 88255Post cookiewales

hi Giles looking at the go pro for my project hope i can work it the project were doing is 150 m2 boguns in a courtyard little village just outside andover :D
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Post: # 88258Post GB_Groundworks

cookie one of these might be easier

http://www.ebay.co.uk/itm....362206f

although not weatherproof would need a cover of some sort
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Post: # 88266Post henpecked

Just bought one of these :
http://www.amazon.co.uk/Acorn-W....&sr=1-1

Waterproof, time-lapse, motion detection and £120 delivered :cool:

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