The Brew Cabin

Posted: **Thu Nov 28, 2013 11:06 pm**

First layer compacted and spot levels in. Yeah that is type1 nice colour eh

Reg layer in, screeded and ready for final compaction. Different quarry different colour.

9t of sharp sand delivered, gives the base a good test and always the time I want to look away. Yeah I'm a worrier.

Am I posting these pics in too large a format?

Posted: **Thu Nov 28, 2013 11:12 pm**

size is fine for me
we get either pink or purple type 1 ,i just like it to have some fines
any plans for drainage?
and i know it seems easier to tip the sand but i prefer to have it tipped on the road then barrowed in to levels

me and my mate did a drive years ago and we over ordered on the sand,it was a bugger moving the excess as we ordered 5M instead of 5t
LLL

Posted: **Fri Nov 29, 2013 6:02 am**

Don't highways get a bit upset with you tipping sand on the road Tone?

Posted: **Fri Nov 29, 2013 6:55 am**

lutonlagerlout wrote:any plans for drainage?
and i know it seems easier to tip the sand but i prefer to have it tipped on the road then barrowed in to levels

me and my mate did a drive years ago and we over ordered on the sand,it was a bugger moving the excess as we ordered 5M instead of 5t
LLL

Linear Drainage just offset from house going into aquacell soakaway.

We'll use a good portion of the sand at the entrance, by the time we pave to it the amount left will finish the main area and the rest will be used down the side path. It can be a bugger if over ordered but I hate paying for the bagged stuff, when it says a minimum of 850kg on the label I reckon you don't get much more than that.

Hopefully by the end of play today it will all be ready for laying on Monday. Bit of edging to set and lawn to be turfed. I like to get all the bits and pieces out the way so we have a clear run on the paving.

Posted: **Fri Nov 29, 2013 9:03 pm**

catch up

got a new mini

some of the kit heading off to leeds

the factory we'll be at for a few months, shes a big girl. 67 metres long and each span is 50m so 100m wide,

first job two sunk concrete tanks, excavation will be 4.2 long, 3m wide and 2m deep, stuck between embankment and b
uilding. had to cut out a pallisade fencing panel and its a bugger of a job.

took the 3cx out, wheel came of teh rim 1 mile from the yard on the main rd grrrr

got it reseated with a can of easy start and a lighter..... boom

250 ton press weighing 28 tons being lifted onto our 2.4m deep pit and 4 30mmx600mm hold down bolts, fitted perfectly phew

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Posted: **Fri Nov 29, 2013 9:47 pm**

Hey GB
Some nice kit there, what make is that new mini.
The last image looks like a scene from Alien all those tentacles, what is it?

Posted: **Fri Nov 29, 2013 9:50 pm**

Sorry didn't read the text. Guess it must be a 250T press then, still looks like an alien though.

Posted: **Fri Nov 29, 2013 10:07 pm**

Edges in, channels in, turf laid, ready to rock and roll.

Posted: **Fri Nov 29, 2013 10:07 pm**

It forms the backing plates for HGV brakes, it's a hydraulic ram that's about 12 inches some bit of kit. That forklift can lift 60 tons.

New mini is a kubota, I'm eventually going to have all our mini and midis kubota then just the js130 from jcb

Posted: **Fri Nov 29, 2013 10:13 pm**

New mini is a kubota

whats did dad pay for it in the end and how old/many hours?

Posted: **Fri Nov 29, 2013 11:31 pm**

Kubota are like the original mini diggers to me. Seemed to go off the boil for sometime as other makes improved on them.
Must be impressing again if you are willing to go all out on them.

Posted: **Sat Nov 30, 2013 1:56 am**

all shaping up nicely lemon

nice commercial work going on there giles,another string to your bow doing that sort of thing
cheers LLL

Posted: **Sat Nov 30, 2013 7:12 am**

We've got a dividing wall to build down the length of the factory for noise control full height, so 67m x 8.5m to ridge

Then cable trenches and foundations for production line

Then we've got a load of internal fit out to do as well new offices welfare etc

Hoping to pick up 300m2 car park job as well while we are up here

Posted: **Sat Nov 30, 2013 11:27 am**

Not laid by me (obv!) but a job I've just finished project managing. I'll let the installer reveal themselves if they wish.

Reclaimed Penmaenmawr blues for the edge courses with reclaimed Mountsorrel pinks for the body and all pitch jointed for that traditional look.

The blues are near perfect, lovely cubes with clean faces, but the pinks, bought by the customer and from a different supplier based in Preston (saying no more), are a right set of mongrels and the mystery installer spent at least a day sorting them into something vaguely resembling courses.

Posted: **Sat Nov 30, 2013 1:37 pm**

well it aint cookie as he wont use pitch
it hasnt got mickg 's double curve
I reckon either haggis or ken

nice looking job those setts in the middle look like hardcore to me
LLL

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