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Posted: Sun Sep 12, 2010 9:05 pm
by 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!
Posted: Sun Sep 12, 2010 9:18 pm
by 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 
Posted: Mon Sep 13, 2010 6:00 pm
by rab1
Giles, on that house who did the BMS and is it a fully integrated system?.
Posted: Tue Sep 14, 2010 2:21 pm
by GB_Groundworks
Posted: Tue Sep 14, 2010 5:41 pm
by lutonlagerlout
whats the 1:80 giles?
the fall on the rugby pitch?
LLL
Posted: Tue Sep 14, 2010 8:24 pm
by GB_Groundworks
yeah, might half it to 1:160 though save moving a load more muck back again, laid almost level currently
Posted: Tue Sep 14, 2010 9:18 pm
by 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:
Posted: Tue Sep 14, 2010 9:26 pm
by 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.
Posted: Tue Sep 14, 2010 9:37 pm
by Pablo
GB_Groundworks wrote: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.
Posted: Tue Sep 14, 2010 9:56 pm
by 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
Posted: Tue Sep 14, 2010 10:04 pm
by 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.
Posted: Tue Sep 14, 2010 10:15 pm
by 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.
Posted: Wed Sep 15, 2010 9:06 pm
by 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
Posted: Wed Sep 15, 2010 9:44 pm
by Dave_L
Nice work Giles! 
