Recent work

[Dave_L]

Yep, big is not always beautiful!

[GB_Groundworks]

i know i guy who ran a brand new 7 ton rubblemaster crusher and at £500 a day he couldnt make it work, too much in wear parts etc and too many ppl thinking at £500 you were ripping them off

[lutonlagerlout]

our digger man had a big one you could load with a machine
think it cost around £25k second hand
but he flogged it in the end for the reasons above
nobody wanted to pay £450 a day, a lot of maintenance, and a magnet for pikeys
on the right job the little ones are a great bit of kit
LLL

[Dave_L]

I pay circa £400/day for an RM60 with operator; I can produce 450t of material a day at 70mm down quite easily. The operator seems to keep the machine busy, infact he has two!

[lutonlagerlout]

cracked on this week against plummeting temperatures and sea mist
the detail we use for flush thresholds and situations where the paving is too high
last friday

wednesday




the 900 mm DPC is bedded all around then 2 course of blocks laid and insulation inserted
the dpc is then wrapped back around and rebedded
linking from the DPM to 450 above


close of play yesterday


joisting tomorrow
LLL

[mike builder/landscaper]

Why don't you use cavity closures on the openings tony?

[lutonlagerlout]

we do mike dermobate,just leave it till the blockwork has gone off a bit
IYKWIM
LLL

[DNgroundworks]

Has that all changed LLL, im sure we used to close cavities off and run insulated or just normal dpc up the join, is it left open now and just plasterboarded over?

[lutonlagerlout]

it gets left open and an insulated cavity closer is fixed in
IMHO they are pretty crap ,the plasterers have trouble getting gear to stick to them
it was much better in the old days returning the blockwork
went in yesterday and did the first floor joisting


LLL

[mickg]

looking good Tony and moving at a fast pace too

[lemoncurd1702]

Here goes, start of a new drive. Considered using a crusher after seeing posts here but can't come to terms with the logistics of it.
Will definitely try sometime when there is more available space.
Drive is to be d.tegula pennant grey.

[cookiewales]

A pecker on your machine would make light work of that concrete

[GB_Groundworks]

thats what i was thinking, making hard work of it

[lemoncurd1702]

A pecker on your machine would make light work of that concrete

Yeah maybe, the concrete is not that thick though.
The machine and trailer come as a one man outfit, so while he goes to tip the load we carry on busting up and i get to play on the machine.
I don't think he's got a pecker anyway (whoa don't let him see this post :p )!

[lutonlagerlout]

looking good lemoncurd
never saw a tractor near a building site in the dirty south,must be a northern thing
down here it would be grabs or a skip
cheers LLL