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Posted: Tue Mar 22, 2011 9:02 pm
by rimexboy
LLL while your there change the corner braket on the guttering....
Posted: Sat Apr 09, 2011 3:18 pm
by lutonlagerlout
roof all gone ,timber gone to allotment and tiles going on ebay
beautiful day down here in sunny luton!
anyone fancy a virtual peesh up?
LLL 
Posted: Sat Apr 09, 2011 5:32 pm
by dig dug dan
looks good tony (although i did see it first hand). What are you doing up at 4 in the morning?
Posted: Sat Apr 09, 2011 5:45 pm
by lutonlagerlout
the early bird catches the worm :;):
LLL
Posted: Sat Apr 09, 2011 8:44 pm
by digerjones
tony, could'nt you have crushed all the hardcore and got rid of it somewhere else. even crushed it into the skip and done a deal with skip firm. only my thoughts. i live in the countryside with plenty of room.
Posted: Sun Apr 10, 2011 12:41 am
by ilovesettsonmondays
nice work hag, how much do the little setts cost a metre and how many in a crate or will they split a crate .
Posted: Sun Apr 10, 2011 8:04 am
by Mikey_C
me and the old man (aka not so quick on his feet now days) did 14 overflowing ton bags in about 7 hours, loading by hand.
Posted: Sun Apr 10, 2011 8:27 am
by GB_Groundworks
Nice work tony, make sure they get you to sort the paving out hehe
did you get rid of the tiles? Our local roofing supply/contractor will buy most roofs and come strip them for you etc
Most skips places either deliver the hardcore direct for sub base etc fill in bad ground or have the big crushers and crush it themselves. What's it work out at?I Can buy 20 tons of virgin limestone mot for £220 Inc vat at mo, so you've got say £70-90 labour, then the cost of the hire? Does the math work out for a lesser product?
Is it per dtp type 1 803 sieve sizing? Seems some large stuff at bottom of piles Inc half bricks, is it more "hard core" as opposed to type 1 in a true technical sense?
Posted: Sun Apr 10, 2011 11:01 am
by lutonlagerlout
it took the labourer 6 hours to crush the pile,its only guestimate on the amounts as its hard to tell
about 1.5 skips clean hardcore = £225 to remove
plus would need to import 10-12 tonnes of type 1 = £250
so roughly £475
crusher hire £150
labourer say 2 days to include moving the stuff £160
diesel £7.10
=£317.10
so there is a saving,the thing to remember is that the crusher has 1 speed,in the past we have had 2 men loading and its too much and just slows it down,1 man loading and moving the crusher works well
also we had to use water as the dust was quite bad
i asked the BCO and she said as long as it goes through a 35mm gap its fine to use,the 2 half batts were a brick that paul noticed after we had finished and washed the crusher. i said throw it on the pile
the crusher works well but you need the room
most of our jobs we dont have the room so the stuff gets binned
the 1 thing it does do is it helps people with their eco aspirations,that job is having 30k of solar panels fitted so re suing the aggregate helps their green credentials
i wouldnt say its an inferior product,as we did it our selves we know there is no mud,cement bags or timber in it
BTW very nice work haggi ,a man after my own heart with all those lines
cheers LLL
Posted: Sun Apr 10, 2011 1:08 pm
by msh paving
GB_Groundworks wrote:Nice work tony, make sure they get you to sort the paving out hehe
did you get rid of the tiles? Our local roofing supply/contractor will buy most roofs and come strip them for you etc
Most skips places either deliver the hardcore direct for sub base etc fill in bad ground or have the big crushers and crush it themselves. What's it work out at?I Can buy 20 tons of virgin limestone mot for £220 Inc vat at mo, so you've got say £70-90 labour, then the cost of the hire? Does the math work out for a lesser product?
Is it per dtp type 1 803 sieve sizing? Seems some large stuff at bottom of piles Inc half bricks, is it more "hard core" as opposed to type 1 in a true technical sense?
with our micro crushers the finished product size can be adjusted from 70mm to 15\20mm type 1 sizing is no problem,the larger crush size quicker it is,i usually do the last 3-4t to 30mm for final grading,your lucky you can buy limestone at that price last week in bedford i was paying £15t for granet fill from croft quarry near MT sorrel,.type 1 with ticket £16t, east anglia price for type one ranges £15-22 ton crushed concrete or crushed rail ballast to type 1 is £16t MSH
Edited By msh paving on 1302437362
Posted: Sun Apr 10, 2011 2:31 pm
by GB_Groundworks
lll only say inferrior due to that study i found where it showed the los angeles wearing test result from crushed brick was like 500 compared to limestone which was 5000 or something i posted it on that thread, but most bought in crusher run has everyting inc the kitchen sink in it
mark we are in the heart of the penines lots of mountains to dig out and crush hehe hence cheap stone etc
Posted: Sun Apr 10, 2011 2:51 pm
by dig dug dan
there is rumour of an aggregate tax coming in on quarried stone, in order to try and make us all recycle, yet on the other hand, the crusher operators licences make it costly to own anything bigger than 15hp 
you can't win with the government!
Posted: Sun Apr 10, 2011 4:03 pm
by lutonlagerlout
the bricks we crushed were all semi engineering types so i guess they will hold up
its the transport costs that add up down south
mind you we get sand a lot cheaper as we have multiple sand pits in a 10 miles radius
just no stone
LLL
