A life behind glass

Back to the stone age

Video | 6 years ago

Knocking up a stone pad for a new hay barn on the farm while the machine was between jobs, man i do love the private work, no big sites with silly rules and regulations just honest work for honest people

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You lift me up

Clip | 6 years ago

Some people love doing crane work some people hate it, me i quite enjoy the break from bucket work now and then, this time its lifting shutters into place to build a concrete retaining wall, some of the shutters where pretty big too, they ranged from 1 to 3...

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Life in the fast lane

Video | 6 years ago

Digging out an old broken/sunk pipe line and laying fresh in its place, made more interesting by the clean drainage stone that was directly above the old pipe had been removed and taken away for recycling for later use leaving an open trench with the old pi...

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Southbound and down

Video | 6 years ago

Off on a nice clean motorway job this time, bits of it were holding too much water during heavy rains so parts where to be lifted and cambered more to make the water shed faster, this involved removing some existing channel kerb and a new kerb line installe...

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More of the same but different

Clip | 7 years ago

Just some random clips in no particular order, all though a general continuation from the last video this time pulling up some of the old membrane and geo grid mesh under an old carpark, grabbing some left over kerb brace that the smaller duck was pulling u...

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Just keep on duckin

Video | 7 years ago

This time its ripping out an existing car park to make a bigger and shinier car park in its place, to start with its just sweeping up the bits of tarmac the plainer couldn't quite get into little heaps ready to be carted away, then its ripping out the old l...

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Seek and Destroy

Video | 7 years ago

So the job was to mulch down an enormous pile of what can only be described as garbage, which had absolutely all sorts of corruption in it ranging from car tyres to bricks and lumps of concrete to wire to metal and wooden posts, rocks, plastic sheeting, old...

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More mucking about in a car park

Clip | 7 years ago

Doing a bit more work on a "free hand" style car park, no real levels to work off just make it so cars can park on it and leave it tidy when your finished so that's what i did, you'll have to skip to the end to see the finished creation as for some reason i...

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Hanging about in a car park that's not a car park .....yet

Video | 7 years ago

Back on my more regular commitments again, this time knocking together an extension to an existing car park, using the material to hand for the most part, hedges were taken right back to form neater boundaries and waste material was used to build a bund aro...

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Menzi Muckin about

Video | 7 years ago

A continuation of a little private job using a clients Menzi Muck A91, this time using it to alter some work done by other people. The job entailed placing pipes in existing ditches and building a small access road over the top, this involved some altering ...

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Now available on stilts

Video | 7 years ago

Making good use of some time between my more regular commitments this interesting little job came across "my desk" a client who happened to own a Menzi muck A91 wanted some landscape work doing as well as some roads and drainage, and as iv been a huge fan o...

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Just down the road

Video | 7 years ago

Just another day running about all over the place, thought the scenery was nice and people might like to see it go by as i often do

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