My Garden Overhaul .... Why Did I Start This ..Picture heavy

[crashley]

What did you use to cut the sleepers? The angled corner sleeper is most the most intriguing cut, i'm guessing not by hand?

[All that jazz]

That's really good, I am impressed! I like these threads. I get a sweat on just walking upstairs these days so that kind of manual labour would kill me in about 2 mins .

Bookmarked for updates.

[All that jazz]

joestifff said:

Took about 5 of these of these removed:

Just a friendly heads up but be careful with your weights. That's a 3.5t trailer and that looks overloaded to me having done muck-away work. VOSA will have your pants down in court for overloading offences. You could be on a double hiding depending on what you used to pull it with too.

[joestifff]

Rangeroverover said:

On the fruit trees idea have a look at "espalier" fruit trees, they are sort of greek crucifix shaped so they will naturally train along the fence and not grow any taller

They look perfect for what I need.... will look closer at the time. Much appreciated. I have no idea about flowers, plants etc, I know I like them, but don't know whats best where!

crashley said:

What did you use to cut the sleepers? The angled corner sleeper is most the most intriguing cut, i'm guessing not by hand?

I bought a new circular saw, it takes two cuts as they're 100mm thick (thicker on the angle)

This is the one I bought https://www.howetools.co.uk/makita-5008mgj-240v-ci... such a beast. I've spent a chunk on new tools for this project... always a positive!!

anonymous said:

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I am very lucky that I borrowed a mates, but my old neighbour used to manage a hire company, they're not a lot of money at all really for the time saved. They deliver them, show you how it works and leave you to it.

You can also hire one with a man as well... obviously a lot more. But could be a lot quicker!

All that jazz said:

Just a friendly heads up but be careful with your weights. That's a 3.5t trailer and that looks overloaded to me having done muck-away work. VOSA will have your pants down in court for overloading offences. You could be on a double hiding depending on what you used to pull it with too.

Very overloaded! 4 of these in the end I think. My mate took them to his farm. If he was happy to drive away, he said as long as the tyres weren't bowing, that was up to him. You can tell it's heavy, the jocky wheel sank into the drive...... bloody farmers!!! There was an option for him to bring a low loader down and tractor trailer, barrow it in the bucket and tip into the trailer. But it would of ruined the road/drive/pissed off neighbours!

[All that jazz]

Roughly 2.5 tonne is the max you should have in/on them but it will say exactly how much on the plate on the chassis. They tare off around a tonne depending on whether it's a tipper or fixed bed.

That bulk bag you have sat at the side of it is a 1 tonne capacity. So 2.5 of those filled to where that one is is all you should have on the trailer to be legal.

Edited by All that jazz on Tuesday 12th July 16:20

[joestifff]

All that jazz said:

Roughly 2.5 tonne is the max you should have in/on them but it will say exactly how much on the plate on the chassis. They tare off around a tonne depending on whether it's a tipper or fixed bed.

That bulk bag you have sat at the side of it is a 1 tonne capacity. So 2.5 of those filled to where that one is is all you should have on the trailer to be legal.

Edited by All that jazz on Tuesday 12th July 16:20

Appreciate that, but it's done now! all soil gone. Feared it was overloaded, but he was happy enough.

So why the hell do they make trailers that big, all it could move would be bags of air! Surely you'd never fill it!

He reckons we moved about 18-20 ton in the end.

[Rosscow]

Great work, OP! Will look brilliant when it's done.

[Pheo]

Looks epic. Makes a real difference having gone to the effort to design something, especially having curves

To make the pointing easier, have you looked into resin based solutions? Have a look at paving expert. It's brush in then and dead easy to do.

[Sticks.]

Looks like it's going to be great.

Here's the place for fruit trees. Usually plant over Winter. There's a lot of information on varieties, pollination etc, almost too much. Mail order or collect. I bought one in 2008 and it's done well.

http://www.keepers-nursery.co.uk/searchresults2.as...

[rufusgti]

Look fantastic. I'd love to have a go at a complete garden makeover.

Those raised beds though.... Surely they're the most expensive raised beds in the history of gardening??
Go on, how much is that oak per metre?

[Muppet32]

Pheo said:

Looks epic. Makes a real difference having gone to the effort to design something, especially having curves

To make the pointing easier, have you looked into resin based solutions? Have a look at paving expert. It's brush in then and dead easy to do.

Yes. Use this stuff:



Easy to use and it's more resilient than traditional mortar.

[Muppet32]

joestifff said:

Appreciate that, but it's done now! all soil gone. Feared it was overloaded, but he was happy enough.

So why the hell do they make trailers that big, all it could move would be bags of air! Surely you'd never fill it!

He reckons we moved about 18-20 ton in the end.

It's a farmer's trailer - hay, straw, general farm shít etc I've got one of these trailers and its frustrating that you can't legally fill it with sand, hardcore, soil etc Not saying I don't though

[roofer]

My back aches just looking at the pictures. Bloody well done !

[MrChips]

OP that looks superb and certainly inspiration for those of us desk bods who think they'd be up for doing similar amount of work! So... what bits of learning would you say to someone just about to start a similar job? What tools have come in handy etc?

I'd definitely be interested in how you've achieve the curved cut on the paving slabs, set them then mark up then cut with a circular saw?

I'm a few months behind you, having had to remove a large tree and i'm now just starting to draw out the designs and order materials. The wife is going mental that i've killed the (100% moss) lawn I'm going to paint the fencing when she's away for a week at the end of July and that should definitely make a step forwards. Trying to decide on the colour is taking ages as we have to plan how it will look at the end rather than now.

[All that jazz]

Is that a cat in the middle of the mud or are my eyes deceiving me and it's a piece of rubbish or cardboard?

[MrChips]

It's fast becoming the worlds biggest litter tray



This was 2 weeks ago so i've just about got to the "this is as bad as it'll look" stage. The OP's list of work after this stage is worrying me though, i thought i'd done the hard bit!



apologies for the thread hijack OP...i'll start my own in a bit!

[croakey]

Very impressive... Once I've finished my house I want to crack on with a garden project.

This is inspiring!

[paulrockliffe]

Yeah looks ace. I'm beginning to get a plan together for my garden, but I'm going to end up doing it piece-meal over the next few years I think. I'm starting from a position of having a nice, but nothing special garden, so there's no rush, just gradual improvements to work through. I've got far too much drive, so a huge amount to dig out and replace if I can motivate myself.

What have you used for your patio? Looks really quite nice. I've a patio to do at some point, but maybe not for a while.

[moorx]

Amazing! I really like the patio slabs.

[spaceship]

Very impressive. Excellent work you're doing there.

I'm hoping to start my own garden makeover later in the year ( crappy weather but won't get grief off the wife for my daughter not being able to play outside). I'm like you, not a pro but can turn my hand to most things. If it turns out half as good as yours is looking, I'll be doing well.