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flanagaj

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So I spent 3 days with a 1.5 tonne excavator and a pecker breaking up the huge amount of concrete slab.  Thankfully, it wasn't reinforced and all I can say is that I didn't envy the neighbours.   I am just finishing off pulling up the broken slab with a 3 tonne machine and getting the concrete collected with a grab lorry.   There is about 5-6 loads to collect and that is going to cost me about £700.  I could have hired a concrete crusher, but I calculated that to hire a crusher, 5 tonne excavator would have exceeded this cost.  I also do not have any water on site for the dust suppression, and there was a lot of large lumps, that would have not fitted into the crusher without having to broken up smaller.
 

 

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Gus Potter

Great post. These things let folk see what a site looks like, gives them ideas.. food for thought.

 

Well done!

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Russell griffiths

Easy peasy. 
now just think if you had your own machine how much would you have saved. 😉

go and tell the wife. 

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ProDave
9 minutes ago, flanagaj said:

"go and tell the wife" - you can lead a horse to water ...

The first SWMBO here knew about me buying a digger, is when I said "you know that digger on ebay I bid for just before we went out today, well I won it"

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Bramco
4 minutes ago, ProDave said:

The first SWMBO

So how many have you got?!!

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flanagaj

I am considering just buying one and then telling her post purchase.  The only issue is knowing what is a good price to pay.  For example, there is this one.  It's been used by a self builder and has quite a lot of parts replaced, but it's a 2006 model.

 

https://www.ebay.co.uk/itm/256701241635?mkcid=16&mkevt=1&mkrid=711-127632-2357-0&ssspo=qzptpbWuSDS&sssrc=4429486&ssuid=&var=&widget_ver=artemis&media=COPY

 

It does make sense as I've got so much excavation related work to do.

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joe90

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Second hand is always a gamble, get someone who knows diggers to look over it for you. (I loved every minute of driving my JCB, best boys toy EVER).

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