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Posted: Mon Apr 09, 2012 9:36 pm
by GB_Groundworks
Ok so here are the rules, add a tip of the day, try to keep it on topic and try to be a helpful tip, can be about anything or everything.
Lets keep it midly clean and non offensive haha lets see how long we can keep it going.
i'll start
If you leave a dumper running with concrete in it acts like a vibrating poker and sets the concrete quicker, always turn off a dumper/power barrow with concrete in when not moving...
Posted: Mon Apr 09, 2012 9:59 pm
by Dave_L
Never leave a roller parked on freshly laid bitmac with the engine ticking over it will leave a drum indent mark in the surfacing. Always turn the engine off
Posted: Mon Apr 09, 2012 10:03 pm
by digerjones
never leave a stuck dumper/digger or truck ticking over as it helps it go deeper
Posted: Mon Apr 09, 2012 10:16 pm
by GB_Groundworks
stuck bolts can be helped to loosen by taping opposing sides of the nut faces with 2 hammers
Posted: Mon Apr 09, 2012 10:22 pm
by local patios and driveway
If you roll a machine switch it off fast as you can, oil will begin travelling up the bores and cause havoc with lifters etc.
Posted: Mon Apr 09, 2012 10:24 pm
by local patios and driveway
When starting any petrol engine, never use choke for more than 5 pulls, after that 5 pulls without, then you can pull 5 with choke
Posted: Mon Apr 09, 2012 10:44 pm
by lutonlagerlout
when using sharp kitchen utensils always read the effing manual first
LLL
Posted: Mon Apr 09, 2012 10:48 pm
by GB_Groundworks
if you burn your hand while say cooking etc run it under the hotest water you can stand then cool it down rather than straight to cold, my chef mate swears by this
Posted: Tue Apr 10, 2012 8:13 am
by Carberry
Never take medical advice from a chef
Posted: Tue Apr 10, 2012 9:11 am
by seanandruby
always check previous posts to see if someone has already started a top tip thread :;):
Posted: Tue Apr 10, 2012 3:59 pm
by local patios and driveway
No matter how hard you push the levers, a digger wont dig any harder... I still cant get my head round that for some reason!
Posted: Tue Apr 10, 2012 5:30 pm
by DNgroundworks
Always make sure the plastic handles on a wheel barrow are securely fastened to the steel tube before setting of down hill with a barrow of tar...
Posted: Tue Apr 10, 2012 6:52 pm
by lutonlagerlout
or concrete!
been there ,done that :O
LLL
Posted: Tue Apr 10, 2012 8:16 pm
by Carberry
Don't try and push a wheelbarrow full of concrete up steps. My brother, who was doing his masters in physics at the time, tried that and covered my recently laid slabs in concrete.
Posted: Tue Apr 10, 2012 8:51 pm
by Kuts
DNgroundworks wrote:Always make sure the plastic handles on a wheel barrow are securely fastened to the steel tube before setting of down hill with a barrow of tar...
haha +1 for that, 1st thing that comes of when i get new barrows