Recent work

[dig dug dan]

16 ton lumsden grinder fitted onto its 9 hold down bolts no problem

its a wonder it need bolting down if it weighs that much!

[GB_Groundworks]

nice work there Giles,I dont know how you can keep so many customers happy at once
it must be a juggling act, I struggle with 2 at a time
cheers LLL

its a real pain at the moment, the setts job was booked in 3 months ago though so had to do it, more and more work coming up at ferodo as well and we are set to move to leeds a week on monday.

we finished leigh job off today, so thats done.

got the js130 on the glossop job filling up the levels on the 5 acre 52 house site, trying to get the work for the whole site that'll keep a few guys busy for a year or so.

most of it is little jobs digging blocked drains out patching asphalt at the mo not really picture worthy

got some more offices to build inside but its all work and money at the end of the day.

[lutonlagerlout]

on the glossop retaining wall did you leave the existing wall in situ and tie it in to a new base?
work is work,adapt and thrive
LLL

[GB_Groundworks]

we excavated 2m back from teh wall and 2.5m down

installed a c20 100mm cbm base

on that was a 400mm reinforced concrete slab doweled into the old excuse for a footing, with 16mm 800x800 L bars

we then installed 2m high 16mm verticals at 200 centres then 16mm horizontal distribution bars at 200 centres

i bought a £315 hilti 55mm breach bit not a core and we installed new weep holes with plastic pipe out through the new block wall that was the shutter

we then fixed wall starters at 200 centres and some bigger re bar into the old follow wall

we then built a 100mm 7 newton dense concrete wall 400mm back from the old wall, by the time wed got done this end it was more like 600mm

scaffolders built us a walkway

we then poured 10m3 c35 in 4 lifts

installed free running drainage stone and 6 inch perforated pipe

geotextile seperation layer then backfilled

bit of topsoil

job done in 3 weeks







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[dig dug dan]

Just build a 4 inch brick wall in front. That will hold it :p

[GB_Groundworks]

in front of the wall wasnt on his land...

[GB_Groundworks]

started this, this week, house has parts that date back to 1450

has a big water problem from lantern pike above running over his old setts and then freezing into a sheet of ice

so we are redoing all the sett gullies making them deeper and sealed with mortar not soil like the old setts

old setts are just bedded on a bit of cinders on the clay still solid but you can see theyve overturned down the hill

theres water running constantly so had to divert the water with the pipe

side of conservatory going to be trough and gully



all the setts below acco are going are going to be asphalt















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[lutonlagerlout]

it seems a shame at glossop after all your excellent work to leave that dog rough old 9 inch wall there
is a pike like a stream or something?
LLL

[GB_Groundworks]

we said the same, was a sorry story


guy bought house 20 years ago from the guy son who lives in the same row of 4 houses

surveyor at time identified wall that the homeonwer had built himself as a future problem

homeowner took out insurance and specified the wall

20 years later water pressure and shit construction and it went

the bungalow below the wall, whos garden it makes the back wall of was sold and couldn't complete because of the failing wall

insurance refused to pay, guy has had to sell the house to pay for the repair and is downsizing now

so he didnt want to pay the extra for re instatement of his garden and block or the removal of the wall

lantern pike is a hill http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lantern_Pike

[lutonlagerlout]

thats a shame for the fella
we come across this all the time, ours is people normally overspend on the build then cant afford to do the drive or patio

looks a beautiful part of the country to be working that pike
where we are its sirens every 10 minutes and junkies trying to flog meat
LLL

[lutonlagerlout]

DDD's mini crusher in action


absolutely perfect for this bad access job

we had a skip full of hardcore which we crushed in 4 hours and installed into the subbase of the oversite

so pros
costs £120 crusher
labour £100
diesel £7

= £227

alternative
skip £180
labour £100
5 Tonnes of type 1 £165

= £445

so for this type of job with poor access the crusher works well

obviously not suitable for all jobs,but definitely a cachet

our scaffolder turned up and saw it in action and he wants to hire it as he has 6 outbuildings to get rid off in his yard for a new development

same scenario ,bad access so keep the gear on site crush and reuse

onwards and upwards

LLL

[dig dug dan]

looking good tony

Shame i could not give you my latest delivery:



had a three day hire the day it arrived, and it came back so caked in mud, it took an hour to clean it and prep it for the next hire:(

[lutonlagerlout]

TBh Dan I would rather not have the new one,my colleague Lewis has a bad habit of breaking new bits of kit :;):
and no, I'm not joking
LLL

[GB_Groundworks]

you not fancy one of the bigger komplet ones like ambient has got?

for jobs like tonies mate clearing 6 out building

[dig dug dan]

the operators licence kills it, along with transport costs and the 49k needed, plus insurance. There is more demand for the micro crushers than the bigger ones.