Donnie

This made me laugh… What’s everyone had for tea tonight?

461 sold. 462 available welcome to offers

Aye it seems like it’s right. I’ve just filed the guard ever so slightly and it seems to be fine.

Aye. It was only 2 weeks maybe 3 weeks wages so around about 2.5-3K before VAT. Seems kind of pointless that they say you need to charge it but don’t have a VAT number

Meggett was built in the 60/-80s I think. They flooded my cutting partners aunties house when they opened it up. I’m sure there’s a school in there as well… The first engineering company/who I did my apprenticeship also did a lot of the steelwork in there. If I find more videos or photos I’ll post them. Safe to say I’ve derailed my own thread Splendid work chaps

It’s not all that interesting. Was just a 10-15 minute walk under the res in a 1 metre or so wide tunnell to the other end. We made an arc’d door frame to suit out of nylon sheet and attached a 3 phase fan at the top to circulate the air and demist the tunnel. Some of the photos of the resevoirs we had dive teams come in and fit/mount/weigh down these stainless steel frames that we fabricated to hold perforated sheet rolled into a tube that was capped and airline fittings welded into it. Cored a 300mm hole out through the small resevoir tower, fed ducting down the side of the tower and mounted it off of a rope and harness. Then the divers came and done the underwater bit (who would have thought…) Attaching the airlines to the frames. 2 single phase compressors in the tower, running constantly 24/7, one on standby the other working. All to aerate the water around the inlet of the tower and keep algae away from the inlet/reducing the level of sludge and other dirt coming into the nearby water station.

Here’s some photos I’ve found off of my phone from some other resevoirs I worked on before I quit/got the sack and went into the woods. Would of still been doing it if I were with a good company. Quite interesting the different processes there is to making water drinkable, loads of different processes… Albeit very very slow. All the pipes/inside photos are of Meggett going up the tower. IMG_5155.mov

Here’s the outlet/overflow pipe 4 floors down an elevator at Fruid running fairly constant. That goes and feeds the river etc. Some photos from the Megget tower at the top, that’s impressive in there. IMG_0400.mov

Bought a 200mm blade and a 250mm guard and it is hitting. Please tell me that you can use a smaller blade on a bigger guard before I lose the will to live with this thing Or before I gouge it out with the grinder/just take the guard off anyways IMG_5324.mov

Haha. I’ve done a lot in Fruid reservoir. Made a door in the tunnell that goes all the way underneath it. Cool bit.

I fully tax plan ever since the start. Spend over 50 percent of my wages on the job to avoid it. After all, it’s only going to be wasted by them

Done a bit up over the Devil’s Beef tub in Badlieu. There was a windfarm in there. I’ve honestly worked all over and I can barely remember where and what we were doing on each job to be honest…

Thanks again for all the replies btw. Will have helped my business massively. Will get 3.5K back off my pick up also!

Charged VAT for the first time this month. Will have earned me like an extra 500 on the 10 percent scheme. Gonna just forget about it all and put it into another account. My accountant seems to think I have to charge VAT since fully registering on the 10th of July. I didn’t charge VAT until I got a number, so I think I’ve got 2.5K of invoices without VAT on them. Is there a way to tell the VAT man I have been charging VAT as of the 1st of August say?

Not entirely sure where that is. I’ve 15 odd sites on at my work that I hop between. I’d have no idea if it were being felled for a wind farm or not unfortunately.