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New Tractor Shed
awemawson:
--- Quote from: chipenter on June 28, 2017, 03:15:18 PM --- My friend mesured 1/2" of rain on his weather station last hight hear in Ashford .
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Yes I can easily believe that, it absolutely teemed down here over night and was still going strong at 5:30 when I got up
SwarfnStuff:
Golly Andrew, have you walked under a ladder, run over a cat, broken a mirror or summat? :lol:
What an adventurous life you lead without leaving your own bit of turf too!
Hopefully things will go way more smoothly from now on.
I for one look forward to an interesting read from your posts.
Regards,
John B
awemawson:
Today the rain eased off considerably - more a very light drizzle barely needing a coat :thumbup:
First load of hardcore arrived as I was mucking out, so about 07:15, and the second just before lunch time, so I think we now have sufficient hard core.
9 am brought the first load of subsoil of the day, and the driver would only tip it at the edge of the pad - don't entirely blame him as it was wet.
New source of top soil arrived at about 10 am with Gary, an owner driver, and did it show in his common sense and capability :bow: The others have been employees and far less helpful. I suggested he used his grab to put some drier stuff over the puddles and run it over that, and he was able to get right to the back with very little mess. He then brought in a further two loads, again sensibly placed
Best day yet with four loads in - I have Darren booked for 3 pm to level and track it, and then we can get a good idea how much more we need. Total so far is eight eight wheeler loads of sub soil. I've another two booked for tomorrow morning and a third for the afternoon if the weather holds :med:
awemawson:
So true to his word Darren returned this afternoon to push those four loads about and track them in. It's gone down nice and tightly. Beau came and cleared away the scrub to give him a bit more room to maneuver
Now that lot's flattened down we could make a reasonable guess at how much more we need, it seems probably another four :bugeye:
So Gary the independent driver is bringing three more, hopefully in the morning in his eight wheeler grab lorry, and I've an eight wheeler Ro-Ro lined up for the afternoon.
Hopefully that lot will bring us up to level (it will be a total of twelve lorry loads!) and we can move on to the next phase.
howsitwork?:
Andrew
I assume your done the water divining trick on the area ? Don't want the alps to develop a water feature do you?
That's a lot of material your putting down! Hope the weekend goes well. Monsoon here yesterday so river is well up.
Regards Ian
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