Recent work

[GB_Groundworks]

the clay is being mucked away, has to be certificated 170 for the 8 wheeler grab

more pics to follow

[dig dug dan]

£170?

doing a job at the moment (about to upload photos here) had 4 loads out, £250 a go. He moaned about every last bit of grass, root, clay and brick.
if the local tip gets a load with more than 13 bricks in it, they reject the whole load.
Its gettting harder and harder now to get rid of anything



Edited By dig dug dan on 1361910237

[dig dug dan]

nice job started monday
clear chainlink fence (covered in ivy), clear corner of garden, and dig the area out for a car parking area.
Car parking bay to be built with brickwork, then shingled.
construct new fencing

day one








start of today:

[dig dug dan]

end of today:

pile of rubble pulled out ready for crushing



trusty digger working hard


the customer wanted to keep this wall. its poured straight on the concrete drive, and is not attached!
We told him its unsafe,and it was only the tree roots stopping it collapsing!






Final dig out and footings tomorrow, pour thursday.

will keep the pictures coming. happy to take it on the chin

[digerjones]

£170?

doing a job at the moment (about to upload photos here) had 4 loads out, £250 a go. He moaned about every last bit of grass, root, clay and brick.
if the local tip gets a load with more than 13 bricks in it, they reject the whole load.
Its gettting harder and harder now to get rid of anything

not sure what a grab wagon costs around here, i tipped in a yard the other day and it was £10 a ton for soil. footings clay on bottom and top soil on top living in the country i can normaly get rid of most stuff, someone having a fire, someone want hardcore or soil. not had a skip in 12 years of tradeing.
whats with a guick hitch on a mirco digger.

[GB_Groundworks]

so we found got the contaminated ground out into a bund on the car park filled with 60 tons of mot



3 full roles of visqueen and 3 rolls of gaffer



its a squeeze



lifted manhole lid to grade



my guy graham is ok with a trowel as well





pits for machines



bending the a393 mesh for the pits

[dig dug dan]

whats with a guick hitch on a mirco digger.

well spotted

its a semi quick hitch.
Was fed up with getting grease all over my hands and having to line the pins up each time to change a bucket.
this way, i can use the ripper to break up the ground and quickly change to a digging bucket in much less time.
I have seven attachments alltogther plus the grab, so the quick hitch just speeds things up, plus you get an extra 100mm digging depth!

[GB_Groundworks]

primary grade and roll of 150mm mot, the rammax produces 80 kn of centrifugal force at 1700kg our 1800kg 800 twin drum is only 12kn





got 20 tons of 20mm to dust to go on as a blinding layer near pour day



2.5k of mesh



started the other job in the heart of the factory, got it all sheeted off and springlers on, loading 1 ton dumper running it out the door 50 yds into the tractor to go 500 yds to the car park.

going to a stores racking bay, someones broken it out and left a mess, we are taking it down to 2 metres and filling with compressable fill and using the rammax on it









gotta price 3 of these knock through and ramps now





Edited By GB_Groundworks on 1361915640

[digerjones]

you've been busy giles
dan, i was brought up without q/h's so not that keen. i can see they are handy. the 100mm you gain on depth do you loose out on crowd.

[GB_Groundworks]

i love the hydraulic quick hitches on our big girls just means you always have th right bucket on you dont make do due to the arse of changing a bucket, fork, boom, grab etc

[dig dug dan]

dan, i was brought up without q/h's so not that keen. i can see they are handy. the 100mm you gain on depth do you loose out on crowd.

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nope. you gain time and efficiency as giles said!

[GB_Groundworks]

that being said we dont have one on 1.5 toner as you can pick buckets up one handed, i remember before hydraulic quick hitches our foreman had the big machine shimmed so much that the hole had to be perfect or it wouldnt go in,

another advantage no pins in the dirt etc carrying wear material into the joints

[rimexboy]

Nice work dan lovely dog,
Files you have plenty going on with that job, it looks massive

[dig dug dan]

another advantage no pins in the dirt etc carrying wear material into the joints

another advantage too, is that the top pin is bolted in, the quick hitch is bolted on, so only one lynch pin to keep losing, instead of two!

[dig dug dan]

end of today
4th grab load from the final dig down and footings, this is whats left
He came back and "lost" it on his next load!


footings dug, and area levelled off for crushed







p.s. the front wall we demolished, built with lime mortar straight on the clay. no footings!



Edited By dig dug dan on 1361983976