Barney12 Posted April 25, 2017 Posted April 25, 2017 Well we're certainly having some fun with groundworks this week! The quote of the day from the digger driver today was "what you have here boy is a bloody quarry" Even something as simple as a drainage trench is proving troublesome. Top middle in this picture you can see a scraped rock. We've had to get a pecker in tommrow to break it up as the 13T digger won't shift it. We've been moving rocks as big as 3-4ft all day.
ProDave Posted April 25, 2017 Posted April 25, 2017 That must be a biggie if a 13t machine won't shift it. Even my little 3t machine lifted this one (that's a 2ft bucket to give some scale)
jamiehamy Posted April 25, 2017 Posted April 25, 2017 Hopefully I'll be able to post some pics next week - a 30t is coming onsite to excavate the garage (And lift landscaping materials up the hill). We're digging the garge into the ground batcave style and think it's pretty much all rock. Should be interesting!
Barney12 Posted April 25, 2017 Author Posted April 25, 2017 15 minutes ago, jamiehamy said: Hopefully I'll be able to post some pics next week - a 30t is coming onsite to excavate the garage (And lift landscaping materials up the hill). We're digging the garge into the ground batcave style and think it's pretty much all rock. Should be interesting! Crikey. 30T! That's a biggun!!
Barney12 Posted April 25, 2017 Author Posted April 25, 2017 24 minutes ago, ProDave said: That must be a biggie if a 13t machine won't shift it. Even my little 3t machine lifted this one (that's a 2ft bucket to give some scale) I think the correct term is "seam" rather than "rock"
Barney12 Posted April 25, 2017 Author Posted April 25, 2017 4 minutes ago, Onoff said: This seems a more appropriate avatar: I like it.
Onoff Posted April 25, 2017 Posted April 25, 2017 Just now, Barney12 said: I like it. I will look at my clay/flint ground with a new found enthusiasm on the basis it's not as bad as YOURS! (Still a bitch without a digger!)
Triassic Posted April 25, 2017 Posted April 25, 2017 My recent trial pits exposed limestone, oh I am looking forward to starting my foundations !
Triassic Posted April 26, 2017 Posted April 26, 2017 If only I was building in cob - http://greenbuilding.co.uk/make-a-date-in-your-diary-for-clayfest-2017/
ToughButterCup Posted April 26, 2017 Posted April 26, 2017 I look on our glacial till / made ground mix with new-found affection. All it needs is a clay spade and a Dinky Toy digger
Onoff Posted April 26, 2017 Posted April 26, 2017 (edited) I've got old foundations to contend with too! What looked just a boggy bit of ground was in fact waterlogged due to the footings of some old structure. Got to v.careful so as not to disturb the clay drains running through. Judging by how solid they are I'm sure they were built by the Germans who did the Jersey fortifications! I read somewhere they were forced to add coal ash/waste to their concrete mix due to supply issues and it turned out super strong! Edited April 26, 2017 by Onoff
ToughButterCup Posted April 26, 2017 Posted April 26, 2017 23 minutes ago, Onoff said: [...]Got to v.careful so as not to disturb the clay drains running through.[...] We did disturb ours and so had to replace them. As soon as we relaid the drain, it ran merrily for a couple of days - whereas before there was a hardly discernible trickle. So, if you do break through the drain, it's not all bad news.
jamiehamy Posted April 26, 2017 Posted April 26, 2017 Okay, so I'm in London and got a series of alerts on the cam.... Geez!
Nickfromwales Posted April 26, 2017 Posted April 26, 2017 My, what an impressive pecker you have ?? 1
Triassic Posted April 27, 2017 Posted April 27, 2017 Try not to be too noisy using your pecker. out of interest is it expensive? I'll be needing a big pecker myself soon.
jamiehamy Posted April 27, 2017 Posted April 27, 2017 It's to dig out the garage which will be pretty much underground - so excavating 9m x 12m and around 2.5m down - think it's about £6k for that.
Nickfromwales Posted April 27, 2017 Posted April 27, 2017 That's going to be a nice garage . Pretty cool to be underground, what's going on top? Will it be kind of invisible?
jamiehamy Posted April 27, 2017 Posted April 27, 2017 We'll be growing grass on top and having a couple of bee hives :-) The plan was to get our first colony thus year but think we will wait until next season. But yes, hopefully it'll be pretty much h invisible from the house
Rossek9 Posted April 27, 2017 Posted April 27, 2017 1 hour ago, jamiehamy said: It's to dig out the garage which will be pretty much underground - so excavating 9m x 12m and around 2.5m down - think it's about £6k for that. Does this include getting rid of your spoil? Or are you using what's excavated elsewhere? I'm looking at excavation of roughly the same amount for our founds and trying to get some prices together.
jamiehamy Posted April 27, 2017 Posted April 27, 2017 36 minutes ago, Rossek9 said: Does this include getting rid of your spoil? Or are you using what's excavated elsewhere? I'm looking at excavation of roughly the same amount for our founds and trying to get some prices together. That includes removal of spoil. I had another prices that was higher but in the same ballpark. 1
Rossek9 Posted April 27, 2017 Posted April 27, 2017 Thanks for that @jamiehamy Our plot is made up ground so hopefully won't need a machine as big as 30t but nice to get a ballpark.
Onoff Posted April 28, 2017 Posted April 28, 2017 Darn sarf that last one would sell for a fortune in the garden centres! 1
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