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Posted: **Mon Apr 30, 2012 5:55 pm**

board here

Posted: **Mon Apr 30, 2012 7:05 pm**

you ask for scalping here local you get a crap mix of the last bit of overburden with clay in it, the scraping up from quarry floor and all the other shit they dont want its proper crap stuff... DOT type 1 40mm down etc

Posted: **Mon Apr 30, 2012 8:30 pm**

seanandruby wrote:A baton is a thin stick, club, or a small baguette.

and a scaffold plank :;):

Posted: **Mon Apr 30, 2012 8:51 pm**

GB_Groundworks wrote:you ask for scalping here local you get a crap mix of the last bit of overburden with clay in it, the scraping up from quarry floor and all the other shit they dont want its proper crap stuff... DOT type 1 40mm down etc

Agreed Giles, never use the crap myself. Also seen some proper crpa "crusher run" too!

Hardcore gives me the impression of half broken bricks, slabs and all the shit that gets mixed in with it lol etc etc

Type1 or 803 is what we call stone.

Posted: **Mon Apr 30, 2012 9:00 pm**

http://www.yourdiyshop.com/spear-j....-2540huI'm 6ft 5 and the spade reaches my stomach and the long tail my arm pit. The shovel is great for digging in good ground or for shoveling out what the spade has broken up in the trench the spade is also great for busting small rocks and concrete. Short tools destroy me but I can go all day with these and still feel fresh. The spade is at the bottom on the same link although they're both about a tenner more than we pay over here for them.

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Posted: **Tue May 01, 2012 1:27 pm**

Pablo, cheers mate, I'm gonna order one of those spades. As I said, we already have an Irish Shovel, and we have Grafter spades, but they have no handles and are to heavy for anything but post digging, but that looks like my idea of a spade.
Always meant to try and get a longer handle to my mattock and pick, but never seem to spot anything with enough strength.
One of the midgets that I employ said the best thing for me to do would be to dig a trench next to where I'm working and then me spade would be the right length, fair point !!:p

Posted: **Tue May 01, 2012 5:20 pm**

you are the wrong size for paving pablo :;):
my best mate is 6'5" and when he came out with me for a few shifts it all went wrong for him ===> long way down
LLL

Posted: **Tue May 01, 2012 5:33 pm**

Aye but the ladies love a big un like me Tony. The ground is definately to far away though I can't lay paying standing up so have to work off my knees which is why I wear the pads in my trousers with another gel filled set on top of them.

Posted: **Tue May 01, 2012 5:46 pm**

i was under the impression it was "short and thick,does the trick" "long and thin,dont fit in" :laugh: :laugh:
LLL

Posted: **Tue May 01, 2012 6:12 pm**

:laugh:

Posted: **Tue May 01, 2012 6:23 pm**

Pablo wrote:Aye but the ladies love a big un like me Tony. The ground is definately to far away though I can't lay paying standing up so have to work off my knees which is why I wear the pads in my trousers with another gel filled set on top of them.

I can't lay flags standing up either. Ladies love that I'm comfortable kneeling for 8 hours though :laugh:

Posted: **Tue May 01, 2012 8:07 pm**

mickavalon wrote:Pablo, cheers mate, I'm gonna order one of those spades. As I said, we already have an Irish Shovel, and we have Grafter spades, but they have no handles and are to heavy for anything but post digging, but that looks like my idea of a spade.
Always meant to try and get a longer handle to my mattock and pick, but never seem to spot anything with enough strength.
One of the midgets that I employ said the best thing for me to do would be to dig a trench next to where I'm working and then me spade would be the right length, fair point !!:p

no offence taken that my offering wasn't good enough. I'll get me coat!!

Posted: **Wed May 02, 2012 7:06 am**

Sorry Mikey, I'll buy one of them too mate, a man can never have enough spades!!

Posted: **Sat May 12, 2012 11:21 pm**

i'm glad i found this site; to go from scaffold boards (boards down here) to gel filled kecks to giants on there knees all day restores my faith in this small island;priceless; cheers

Posted: **Sun May 13, 2012 4:44 am**

cheers pablo for that link been waiting a while to get my hands on irish long shovel ps am looking for long handle fork for my allotment

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