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Carberry
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Post: # 80880Post Carberry

lutonlagerlout wrote:try chopping out tree stumps with a mattock stewart
2 -3 hours of that and you will feel it
LLL :)
I regularly break mattocks, pinch bars and sledge hammers. Got guarantees on them all though so just keep going back and getting them replaced.

I did find a 48lb hammer but it was from a bodybuilding site in Australia, ordered it for my brother in law. Not found anything similar in UK.

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>>>>I did find a 48lb hammer
is that not a 2 man lift ? :D
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Post: # 80887Post Pablo

I hear what you're saying Tony I'd hate to be the fella who has to take some of the jobs I've done up there's not a slab of concrete in the last 6 years that hasn't had mesh in it. I get very pissy when I realise the driveway I've got to remove has been reinforced or the pipes have been backfilled with leanmix I can see my schedule going south very quickly.
Can't see it from my house

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Post: # 80907Post lutonlagerlout

stewart ,when i was young and up for it i used to break a sledgehammer handle every day wacking hard core in oversites or under drives
my old boss frenchy used to laugh and say "you arent reading the concrete"

he would get his feathers out and the lot would be bust in an hour
there is a skill in using any tool forks ,picks, mattocks and hammers
placement is more important than maximum effort

I have worked with some real big lads "bedfordshire arm wrestling champion was one"
and a lot of the muscle marys are shagged by tea time
who is the real king of the jungle?
the hyena or the lion :;):
anyway back onto the slab
pain the the flipping rear
but its gone now
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we were so knackered we had to stop for a lifesaver after work
a gallon of it
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Post: # 80908Post lutonlagerlout

last pic fail
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Post: # 80910Post Carberry

lutonlagerlout wrote:stewart ,when i was young and up for it i used to break a sledgehammer handle every day wacking hard core in oversites or under drives
my old boss frenchy used to laugh and say "you arent reading the concrete"

he would get his feathers out and the lot would be bust in an hour
there is a skill in using any tool forks ,picks, mattocks and hammers
placement is more important than maximum effort

Reminds me of that show Britain's hardest, one of their trials was to break through a concrete road barrier hanging off the ground by 4 chains, 1 tied through each corner.
The idiots would try and smash through the middle of it, something designed to take the impact of a speeding 1T + vehicle.
The smarter ones would bash the corners off to weaken it then let the barrier do all the work.

Most days I will do it the smart way, some days I will do it the meat head way if I have the time and want the work out.

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Post: # 80953Post lutonlagerlout

not really work but hey ho! a bonny weekend
went to oslo court in st johns wood saturday
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the same restaurant and staff have been here for 40 years
the owner tony sanchez always calls me a "good boy" even though i am 44 this week
:)
the best restaurant i know in the smoke yet from the outside it look like a 1930s block of flats
veal holstein,proper 1970's food
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the legend that is uncle peter with his escargots
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coquilles st jaques
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the finest of french fare for £31.50 a head
the camerons eat here ,good enough for the louts good enough for them :;):

oh and uncle peter pulled friday night
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twice!
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worked in the allotment shop today ,didnt take a penny
then decided on a BBQ
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happy days
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no email from the lottery so back at it in the morning
got a tip on a horse friday *lucky pigeon*
it came 9th out of 13
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Post: # 80958Post haggistini

I'm gonna grow a beard now well done uncle Peter "legend"
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Uncle albert looks like a right ladies man if the ladies like it or not!

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Post: # 80974Post lutonlagerlout

all the young lads were after the 2 girls
uncle peter just gave them dogs abuse and they lapped it up
strange old world
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Post: # 81022Post lutonlagerlout

back at it this week
felt and battened yesterday
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tiled and muck work today
sheesh a hot couple of days
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guttering then scaffold down tomorrow

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Post: # 81023Post Pablo

bollox of a wee return on that hip but very tidy and nicely cut into the lead. Did you do it or use a subbie.
Can't see it from my house

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Post: # 81024Post lutonlagerlout

I did it and have the sunstroke to prove it
that little return was a total bollox of a job
the ridge tiles never want to sit nice due to the big rolls on the centurion tiles
plus every tile has to be fixed with a plastic clip and 50 mm ally nail
beleive me i have no aspirations to roof work
got 1 more bit of lad the saddle over the ridge abutment then the guttering
had a fail day last week on guttering,I wont say anymore but a 50 quid repair job took all day :(
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Very neat LLL
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Post: # 81029Post lutonlagerlout

ty chaps
I will never moan about slabs being 5 mm out again
some of those ridge were 10 mm wider one end :O
I know its been hot be we did 16 hrs in full sun the last 2 days
my daughters little friend came round and i am darker than her and she is half indian :)
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