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Posted: Sat Sep 05, 2009 1:47 pm
by GB_Groundworks
Posted: Sat Sep 05, 2009 2:04 pm
by lutonlagerlout
there are fork trucks, and there are FORK TRUCKS
now that is a fork truck
LLL
Posted: Sat Sep 05, 2009 2:07 pm
by DNgroundworks
Cool, ive see these before, theres a Balfour site near me and they have one on a wheeled excavator, the guy using it was a pro, id of thought itd be hard to use!
Posted: Sat Sep 05, 2009 2:20 pm
by mickg
nice bit of kit GB 
Posted: Sat Sep 05, 2009 2:57 pm
by GB_Groundworks
its a bit tricky when its on backwards like in the pics as its backwards on the bucket curl.
but its strong can pick a full pack of 140mm dense concrete block up and stick it on the second floor scaffold
not used the 140's before on a house, they are a pain. 1 brickie off with bad back, crane in on monday got 3 ton of steel going up for the roof.
this is an artist impression of the house were building
Posted: Sat Sep 05, 2009 3:34 pm
by lutonlagerlout
the old engineers love ridge beams nowadays,never saw one till 10 years a go, now its every 2nd job
i did the pads today then we have to get a nice 7 M long,35 kg/metre ridgebeam up monday
through a window......................
LLL
Posted: Sat Sep 05, 2009 5:09 pm
by dig dug dan
bit of kit. Dare we ask "how much?"
Posted: Sat Sep 05, 2009 5:16 pm
by GB_Groundworks
the forks we bought from a fork lift brakers for £40, and the metal and welders time it came to about £450 for it.
Posted: Sat Sep 05, 2009 8:26 pm
by rab1
at that price, should have paid for itself in a week. ???
Posted: Sat Sep 05, 2009 9:20 pm
by GB_Groundworks
tony to you buy in the pad stones or make them yourself?
these are all strapped down with the 3 wall plate straps then hilti anchored into the pad stones.
Posted: Sat Sep 05, 2009 10:12 pm
by lutonlagerlout
mostly use R15 reinforced lintels ,you know the 140 by 100mm pre cast ones, either that or blue stafford class A eng bricks
A timber plate gets bolted on top of the beam then the rafters pasloded on to that
its due to the fashion for vaulted ceilings
LLL
Posted: Sat Sep 05, 2009 10:19 pm
by GB_Groundworks
these are all 300mm high by 140mm, to sit on the 140mm 20 newton block walls, we had them cast for us, its a right spiders web of steel on this one.
yeah we use a hilti spit and nail the top plate into the rsj
Posted: Sat Sep 05, 2009 10:56 pm
by Tommy
I was in spain last year, and saw a 13 tonne wheeled Hitachi with a tilt/rotator hitch and a two piece knuckle boom, and a set of the pallet forks, with a trailer mounting on the blade.... he couldnt half shift some material
Posted: Sun Sep 06, 2009 12:58 am
by lutonlagerlout
GB_Groundworks wrote:these are all 300mm high by 140mm, to sit on the 140mm 20 newton block walls, we had them cast for us, its a right spiders web of steel on this one.
yeah we use a hilti spit and nail the top plate into the rsj
the walls normally go that thick when the ceiling height is over 2.4 M,we did a music room with 5 m ceilings was the same 100 mm brick,insulation, then 140 blocks.
stronger i expect
LLL
Posted: Sun Sep 06, 2009 4:41 am
by haggistini
best one i seen was in the film alien 
