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  1. aspenarb
    This site has always been really slow to navigate from this end since the revamp but always worked until recently, its not been reliably accessible for about a month now and is still timing out. Bob
  2. aspenarb
    A container is only as wide as the truck that delivers it, if the container goes down there wont the truck? Bob They are all the same width.
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    They are made from snowflakes Khriss and are churned out of colleges up and down the country. Bob
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    As a one off and away from the yard I can see the sense in a small saw/big tree but to go felling with a small saw is just hard work. I had to winch a load of roadside Chestnut in the other day and one of our sausage jockeys thought he would fell these with a small saw. It was painful to watch, he set the gob at waist height and he was backwards/forwards sorting the back cut for an age, hinge/holding wood was all over the place. Next day they bring the felling saw to reduce the stumps , we now have dozens of ugly chogs to clear off site that could have been in the stick earning a few quid. Waste of fecking time in my book. Take a big saw, cut them low, job done Bob
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    Most of the kids these days cant get a big felling saw started unless they bring their mum along. Bob
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    An 880 with a 6` bar can be a small saw on trees 15` diameter at the base. Bob
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    Its worth looking at the tilt beds, all the other trailers seem to be a one trick pony., Feck the ramps.
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    We revamped a washed out 1k long bridle/footpath for HCC about ten years ago, the original was just an impassible quagmire for six months of the year. We installed drainage down both sides and in places where there was no run off we extended the grips off into the woods, timber edged it and put in 100mm of recycled 20-50mm crushed concrete (washed with no crap in it) filled up to the top of the edging with 20mm lime stone , all of this was compacted and then we topped it off with 0-3mm fines (basically concrete grit). We were recently doing a site clearance close by so I had a stroll down this path, still spot on which surprised me given the amount of horses that use it. Bob
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    On a job thats prepped by others they will price their levelled finish on the understanding what they are laying tarmac on is exactly right (regulated), to them 10 tons of tarmac will do X sq mtrs so if they get to the end and they are short its down to you.They prebook the tarmac/haulage at the plant and cant always get more at the drop of a hat so a shortfall could run into another day. A guy I know had to stump up another 5k on his drive. Bob
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    There is a bit more to surfacing an old farm track than just throwing down tarmac, it will need edging, drainage regulating and compacting prior to tarmac, get the regulating wrong and you could end up with a bigger bill on the measure. The tarmac is the easy bit and a road of 450mts would be less than a days work for a proper outfit, the last one I was involved in was £25 sq mtr, that was for a 20mm dbm base laid at 70mm thick and a 10mm topping at 30mm thick . We had laid all the edgings, done the drainage and regulated the surface. All they did was rock up with the tarmac laying machine and roller, supply labour and the tarmac. Bob
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    Edged like that gives a tad over three metres width, if you register with one of BR`s reclaimed materials depots you can tender for job lots of these. Can be as little as £3 a pop, transport kills it a bit because they weigh about 250 ish kilo`s a piece so you can only get about 120 on a truck. I counted over thirty reo bars in one, the concrete used must be a bit fancy because they are granite hard. Bob
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    Concrete sleeps are cheap and easy to lay, perfect if the drive is in constant use and you need access over it at all times. Bob
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    We have put in quite a few loading bays, without over engineering it I would go for a light scrape off and lay out a small section of membrane. See the first truck of hardcore back in and level that out, watch what the ground is doing as the next truck backs over the hardcore and adjust to suit. Drainage is key and the hard standing will need a ditch all the way around, too easy to overthink these things and go overboard, it may well be ok with a foot of hardcore . Also important to top off with clean stone , crushed concrete is full of glass,nails and other crap. Bob
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    A few forks full of sweepings fired through gets most of it off.
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    Without a doubt its got to go, not so sure I would plant another tree there, considering the total lack of privacy I think I would be planting a decent hedge and go for some screening. Bob
  16. aspenarb
    Poured the last two bays today e6G`z, next job is to reconfigure or make some sense of the carpark.
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    4x4 van with a side loading door is the way to go, if its only for saws,fuel and a mucker the Kangoo sized vans are good.If you need bigger the Sprinter/VW make more sense, can have rear seats and carry shitloads of gear. Todays 4x4 pickups are more fashion than function and dont really do anything that well, complete ballache to wrestle gear in and out of. Bob
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    It will look different by the end of next week Rubens, that machine hasnt missed a beat in all the time we have had it,other than bloke damage and the RS thumb ram shitting itself the tracks are the first time its had the spanners on it since it was new . Bob
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    The tracks broke on the LG ,a lump of steel got tangled up in there and finished them off, 2000hrs is not too bad for rubber tracks considering the type of work its been on. Got one on and tracked it back to a carpark to fit the other
  21. aspenarb
    Still working it’s arse off, one tough old tractor.
  22. aspenarb
    Not much has changed in the way we deal with brash, its either bailed/chipped, mulched, burned or stacked. What does change are the chair polishers and the bean counters in charge. You can normally tell when there has been a shuffle about at the top by the methods employed on the ground. Bob
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    I can think of quite a few instances where we have windrowed everything, a few of the country parks around here are into their habitat piles. We were on the M5 a few years ago and the spec was to drag all brash up the bank and windrow adj to the fence, not sure whether that was for habitat or to stop animals wandering down the banks on the motorway. Almost all the roadside trees we fell around woodlands these days just get pulled in and left as is, not often the time or budget to trim them out. Bob
  24. aspenarb
    I had a chippy knock up some big pigeon holes to take tough boxes. For an example its a lot easier for jobs like riveting if everything to do with that task is in the one box, when done put it all back in the box and its good to go again, certainly a lot easier than finding the rivet tool rivets, drills to suit etc. Bob Mancave link, the old one seems to have packed up Photobucket APP.PHOTOBUCKET.COM
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    I always think if you are going to spend eight hours plus of your time at any work it needs to be for maximum gain.If at thirty five you realistically think you have the energy, drive or motivation to be competitive in Arb all well and good, if not its going to be slog and big disappointment. Its a game where you only get paid for what you do, the less you can physically do the less you earn so you really need to be up to speed quite quickly and mindful of the day you cant continue, sheckles need to be stashed for that rainy day. Bob

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