Last few weeks in pictures

[dig dug dan]

nice job michael.! shame you couldn't have shredded that stuff. £215 is better off in your pocket rather than the skip hire peoples!

[michaelthegardener]

well ive got a smallish petrol shredder but its not so good on the leafy stuff like this it was also a time thing and i had to clear some big logs an rotting grass left by the current contractor ive still got some more work to do there an ill use it for that even less the skip hire im still makeing a good wedge on this

[rab1]

Giles, on that house who did the BMS and is it a fully integrated system?.

[GB_Groundworks]

a company called GSL, its pretty integrated all lights are on lutron switches/dimmers can be set in scenes etc

the heating and aircon and security and cctv and the media is all intergrated, you get a wireless tablet thing to control it all or an app on the iphone etc.

today has been a write off haha

rained last 24 hours here



low spot so i dug a relieve channel, thats 6 foot wide and about 6 inches deep ran full bore for 20 mins



then the sun came out, so i could relax by my new pond!!





1.25% or 1 in 80 = angle of 0.717





Edited By GB_Groundworks on 1284470801

[lutonlagerlout]

whats the 1:80 giles?
the fall on the rugby pitch?
LLL

[GB_Groundworks]

yeah, might half it to 1:160 though save moving a load more muck back again, laid almost level currently

[Pablo]

Do you think you'll finish that pitch this year Giles those machines would wreck the soil with all that rain. I've got a few acres of turf and seed to do but I think my windows gone. Some seed I threw down last week germinated in 5 days but I can't get a rotavator and digger near the rest. Was that puddle that colour cos you have you weekly bath in it. :laugh:

[GB_Groundworks]

weekly, steady on haha dont want to be that clean lol

hopefully but got 10 days away as well, hopefully small cut and trim dozer be here this week, then with lazer and reciever trim the clay, add the drains every 5 linear metres, then add 300mm soil ontop then seed, if we get a warm wet week it might take. fingers crossed but pitch is a spare anyway so can wait.

might try a near discharge muck spreader to put the soil back. should tilth it up nice and provide a good seed bed for the power harrow.

[Pablo]

might try a near discharge muck spreader to put the soil back. should tilth it up nice and provide a good seed bed for the power harrow.

I like your thinking there have you seen that done before. I've used tracked dumpers for damp ground they were great but still a lot of work to level. Would the soil be light enough for the spreader to handle it's not exactly straw and poo. I'd be worried about a rouge boulder.

[GB_Groundworks]

not seen it done but might go look to see if it has been done, hopefully be ok worth a try for half a day if it works, got 2 piles of soil about 1500 tons of good to average top soil, we rotavated field then stripped the good black soil off to its been windrowed then moved and piled and will be handle again back into spreader so should be fairly bulked, didnt see any rocks while stripping top soil, it was a silage field before.

then got another pile maybe 400-500 tons of top quality soil that was top cut off sale sharks/stockport countys ground 40/40/20 mix of soil/sand/fibre

better than the horticultural soil i pay £35 a ton for, handy having a place to tip when a mates got a job on haha

got a top dresser but it only holds 2 tons so be a long slow job even dressing with the good stuff.

like you say might just be tip it in piles and level with dozer but then have compaction issues etc, bloody nightmare give me mot to level any day haha

[Pablo]

A soil rake on the digger would fluff it up again but they're expensive and best with those fancy tilt hitches. Rather you than me mate that's gonna be a nightmare to finish.

[GB_Groundworks]

got a 3metre power harrow with crumbler bar on back so can run that over it to finish just more work, hopefully dozer will do the trick but i havent driven a dozer since the old d7 we had when i was about 12 haha, dad bought it to move a load of clay at our house, but that was just brute strength pushing job with a staight blade, manually trimming following a lazer prompting with a 6 way blade is going to be fun learning experience haha. our foreman used to drive a big dozer on a slag heap.

[GB_Groundworks]

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=0Bhp845JDbU

moved 10 tons of mot today, gap was 100 inches jcb is 92 inches haha, pass the ky

[Dave_L]

Nice work Giles!

[GB_Groundworks]

found these on my computer my first paving project, 11 years ago i was 17









early days of digital cameras about 1mp haha

with hindsight flags are crap but gotta start somewhere, all the actual building footage is on video but need a minidv camera to capture it haha