Recent work

[Pablo]

Injured that stone is lovely but I'm sure it's basalt not granite although if you paid granite prices for it then your quids in because it's normally twice the price. The cutting around the step on the block drive is tidy too.
Paul.

[Pablo]

Last couple of weeks after a fortnight off.
Footing for an anchor wall.

Wall half built so we can bring in topsoil before its finished.


Wall finished left small end open for access. Coping on and drainage fill and topsoiled.

Also got the neighbours cut ready for similar.

Had a couple of blinding days this week so took my break in the field behind the site.

Titanic was built by those big cranes.

Sawn sandstone arrived from Steve at London stone on thursday. Service and comms was first class and it was cheaper off him inc delivery than I could get from anyone in Ireland. All natural stone is becoming very hard to get here no one keeps any stock and you have to wait until they can fill a container with orders before you'll get your stuff it's a bloody nightmare.

LLL don't give me any sh#t for the blockwalls all I can say is they won't fall over and plaster hides a multitude of sins. :laugh:



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[DNgroundworks]

LLL don't give me any sh#t for the blockwalls all I can say is they won't fall over and plaster hides a multitude of sins. :laugh:

Ha ha that cracked me up! Nice job and nice size to, i like jobs like that which are bit different from your standard paving projects.

Is the wall constructed out of tobermore products?

[Pablo]

Yes it's secura minor in slate with a slate tegula mowing strip.

[michaelthegardener]

:p

[rab1]

the tobermore site near us has some cracking displays/products on display. about the big cranes h&w, that yoke sank but at least you still have a decent yard left.

[Pablo]

aye only the irish could be proud of a ship that was badly built. The yard is absolutely massive even though it's a 10th of it's original size. The dry dock those cranes are over was until recently the biggest in the world. It's now used mainly for assembling offshore wine turbines and loading them onto special jackleg ships. Have blagged my way in before with a mate who does electical work for then and the scale of everything is mind blowing. The titanic slip is on the river just behind the left hand crane.

[haggistini]

Cracking work all round fellas!
And nice pics, everyone seems busy

[lutonlagerlout]

It's now used mainly for assembling offshore wine turbines and loading them onto special jackleg ships.

think they are called jack up rigs mate
wall looks fine are ye getting paranoia?
as for the titanic nothing wrong with the ship, it was the numptys like Ismay who wanted to cross fast and sailed too close to known icefields
LLL

[lutonlagerlout]

cracked on with the wee job
got to here by friday

hopefully we will have the roof on and tiled by next week
LLL

[Pablo]

the ones that come in here are ships although there is the occasional rig. It's an impressive sight when the turbines are loaded onto then and they're making their way out to sea you wonder how they stay upright. The titanic sank because it had no floor to ceiling bulkheads so water could flood from compartment to compartment. Most ships of that time had them but they deemed her unsinkable so didn't bother. Also they didn't want to clutter the decks with lifeboats because it would spoil her lines. Only one compartment was breached and a bulkhead would have saved the ship so the problem was in the design the iceberg shouldn't have sunk her.



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[lutonlagerlout]

the life boats on board met and exceeded the legal requirements of the time, and it was the media that proclaimed her unsinkable
there was pressure on captain smith to make the trip in record time as it was his last voyage
its a sad tale for sure and it was poorly designed,but H and W did their bit
LLL

[Bob_A]

Those setts look very deep what do they measure?
What sort of bedding are they on and how thick is it?
If you were using setts that were only 50mm deep how would the bedding differ?
Cheers

[DNgroundworks]

Nice pot Michael!

[GB_Groundworks]

Love the holland and wolf shot love all that kind of geekery, titanic had the double hull hence claimed unsinkable albeit didn't take into account a 100k ton mountain of ice. It had water tight bulk heads but only up to a certain level so once the water in the struck compartment reach that level it then spiralled as the weight dragged it down, then the boilers were quenched and exploded making it worse.

Poor value of life in those days though, there was a ship within a few miles but mistook the rescue rockets for fireworks etc thank god for modern communications