The Brew Cabin

Posted: **Sat Aug 04, 2012 9:46 am**

steels on

brickwork up in front of gabions (it had been raining not damp coming through theres 120 tons of 100-200mm stone in gabions behind to its pretty free draining)

new car port area setts laid and pointed

scaffolders been and our new polish father/son/ very fit daughter team have just put the tin hat on. (she doesnt work but came with them, very pretty blonde)

for carberry 24lbs and 48lb sledge hammers and normal lump hammer for scale

catch up on this one

Posted: **Sat Aug 04, 2012 9:54 am**

another job with new post knocker, paid for itself in two days

we did 1km of stock fencing last year with tractor client has two fields 10 acres and 6 acres but they are not connected, 2 4' gates between them and through her garden, installed 3 8' gates and built a new compound for them to use for veg etc

post knocker was great, using 8" x 8'6" driven gate post could install a gate in 45 minutes on my own.

Posted: **Sat Aug 04, 2012 9:55 am**

some cracking work there giles
must be great working on projects that size
LLL

Posted: **Sat Aug 04, 2012 10:04 am**

crazy month for us this month, graham goes away for 3 weeks on sunday,

2 brickies and 2 joiners and windows arriving this week on big house

i break ground on a Â£60k changing room extension with another labourer on monday

gonna be a crazy few weeks, nothing worse than having your most trusted foreman away when youre super busy

got new work shirts and one for my lad

still shooting most weeks

Posted: **Sat Aug 04, 2012 6:56 pm**

We are shooting now ,not birds ,fallow bucks,they dont look half as nice as your quarry but they do eat nice . ! great work

Posted: **Sat Aug 04, 2012 8:35 pm**

out of interest, on the stock fencing, how are the horitontal stakes held in on the corners? did you use timberloks?

Posted: **Sat Aug 04, 2012 8:46 pm**

they are held just in place with a 6" nail through the back, i normally notch them and use the spike then cut a new spike on the other end into a hole but its such a short run theres no point. then a piece of plain high tensile wire is fed from the base of the main strainer to the back of the second strainer, the second strainer is there to brace the top of the main strainer and then using a grapple fastener the fire is tightened to as tight as you can get it, basically like a piano string

i'll try find a photo

so in 30m of fencing there are 7 strainers and only 4 stakes, makes it rock solid though.

this video is cool id love one of those protech tracked carriers, but your wire should be so tight you can run over it

fyi dont try this with cheap wire, its snaps haha

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=CwVQuh3BsN4

what ive learnt over the years is the double monkey strainers work ok on top and bottom strands, but the clamp across the whole wire is better, and i just use the digger or tractor to pull againsts.

joining two pieces with grapples is also a very good way to tension it but they are Â£1 each so Â£10 per join but allow for future adjustment, best also to stretch leave it under tension for 15 mins then try again as there is a lot of stretch in it.

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Posted: **Sat Aug 04, 2012 11:17 pm**

I'd feel a tit if I had expert on my tops :laugh:

Posted: **Sun Aug 05, 2012 11:28 am**

what is the extension being used for Giles as the walls don't have any vertical damp installed and the pillar looks like its been filled in ?

nice job though, nice legs on the first photo too

Posted: **Sun Aug 05, 2012 11:32 am**

Thats one motherf*cker of a sledge! :p

Posted: **Sun Aug 05, 2012 12:22 pm**

mickg wrote:what is the extension being used for Giles as the walls don't have any vertical damp installed and the pillar looks like its been filled in ?

nice job though, nice legs on the first photo too

walls dont have vertical damp?

the bottom bit will be a glass roofed family room/ open plan dinner and then where the scaffold is there is a tower going up to be a gym/master suite.

the lower walls are cut into the existing cavity and combed in,

pillar filled in to take the loads from the tower sitting on the steels.

Posted: **Sun Aug 05, 2012 12:24 pm**

i meant vertical damp for the windows and doors

Posted: **Sun Aug 05, 2012 4:02 pm**

Now that's a sledge hammer! Need to find one for myself :laugh:

Posted: **Sun Aug 05, 2012 7:08 pm**

I'm not sure without looking at the construction drawings, they are filled with c35 concrete all the pillars. But all passed by building control so sure the engineer has addressed it

Posted: **Sun Aug 05, 2012 10:51 pm**

I dont want to get too involved in building regs but any new living accommodation must meet regulations
if an external door is maintained between the existing house and glass roofed area then it is exempt,however if it all becomes part of the habitatable area then you need regs
i am sure this has all been sorted,as if the piers are full of concrete they wont be very damp proof for living quarters
some kind of swanky orangery i imagine
LLL

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