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Posted: Mon Aug 13, 2012 7:15 pm
by DNgroundworks
They continue another 6mtrs along roadside, eachside...
1mtr a day was a good day....lol
Posted: Mon Aug 13, 2012 7:45 pm
by GB_Groundworks
our old boy with his own trailer mounted hrdyraulic cropper and little honda engine is £17 a metre for dry stone, bit less for mortar held backs as its quicker
sounds alot and slow going, if id had priced it not the client paying id have pushed him harder hehe, looks good though, im pricing a knock down and rebuild in prestbury at mo, big jobs are the way to go. you still working with the old boy dan?
on a house we did we couldnt match the copers so had our fabricated make two moulds off them and had concrete plant make us 100 of them then painted them to match.
Posted: Mon Aug 13, 2012 8:13 pm
by DNgroundworks
yeye Giles still with Bill.....have some big rail stuff for stobarts and birse rail coming up which should be interesting 
Posted: Mon Aug 13, 2012 9:38 pm
by lutonlagerlout
i would say those walls are worth every penny
better to pay 100k for the best job than 80 k for a shite one
are those piers circular dan?
i would work on stuff like that for less money because i enjoy the art of it,if that makes any sense
LLL
Posted: Mon Aug 13, 2012 9:55 pm
by GB_Groundworks
rail = bigger health and safety nightmare than big sites they are jonny on the spot you'll need a ticket to wipe your bum haha
Posted: Mon Aug 13, 2012 10:31 pm
by parishpaver
lutonlagerlout wrote:i would say those walls are worth every penny
better to pay 100k for the best job than 80 k for a shite one
are those piers circular dan?
i would work on stuff like that for less money because i enjoy the art of it,if that makes any sense
LLL
"Art for art's sake....cash for God's sake".
As my old man used to say.
Posted: Mon Aug 13, 2012 10:49 pm
by lutonlagerlout
i could go out on site and earn big money chucking down trench blocks,but where is the satisfaction in that
the fella that built that wall has created something special
in the words of ruskin
There is hardly anything in the world that some man cannot make a little worse and sell a little cheaper, and the people who consider price only are this man's lawful prey.
LLL
Posted: Tue Aug 14, 2012 8:37 pm
by DNgroundworks
yea they are circular, he built them out of half bricks first with ties then faced up in stone, just over 2mtrs high and a mtr in diameter, the thing that amazed me is that he never lost interest always persevered, i could not do it.
Went to the quarry summat like 47 times to fill my tipping trailer and loaded it by hand, picking the best chunks out of the shite pile. Thought about 8 wheelers but didnt want to pay for 80% crap.
Giles, the rail work is nothing to do with me it is Bills side, ill just go with the flow
Posted: Wed Aug 22, 2012 8:22 pm
by LunerJim
Thanks for the feedback and the pictures.
Pablo, I have seen the curved wall with coping stones in the marshalls catalogue but also in gardening books and even on the Association of Professional Landscapers website. It looks like we will have to pay the £200 a day if we really want curved coping stones.