How much gravel?
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chris1roll said:
You can hire narrow-access mini diggers and dumpers. If you can get a wheelbarrow in you can play with work with a dumper in there.
First hit I found was £35/day self drive.
i can't drive both at once though. hiring a 1.5t digger, about to go hunting around the site for some steel section to make a ramp with as the hire shop can't cope with the 0.5m drop.First hit I found was £35/day self drive.
as an addendum to my previous post:
the hire shop don't have a 3/4 ton digger available this weekend, only a 1.5ton.
given that i only need to level and remove 3" of compacted soil, plus 2 tree stumps, from a 5m x 10m patch, would you bother?
currently weighing up the £220 hire + hassle to get it in the garden against a long hard day on shovel duties.
the hire shop don't have a 3/4 ton digger available this weekend, only a 1.5ton.
given that i only need to level and remove 3" of compacted soil, plus 2 tree stumps, from a 5m x 10m patch, would you bother?
currently weighing up the £220 hire + hassle to get it in the garden against a long hard day on shovel duties.
shirt said:
as an addendum to my previous post:
the hire shop don't have a 3/4 ton digger available this weekend, only a 1.5ton.
given that i only need to level and remove 3" of compacted soil, plus 2 tree stumps, from a 5m x 10m patch, would you bother?
currently weighing up the £220 hire + hassle to get it in the garden against a long hard day on shovel duties.
watching you trying to pull tree roots/stumps with a 3/4T excavator would be interestingthe hire shop don't have a 3/4 ton digger available this weekend, only a 1.5ton.
given that i only need to level and remove 3" of compacted soil, plus 2 tree stumps, from a 5m x 10m patch, would you bother?
currently weighing up the £220 hire + hassle to get it in the garden against a long hard day on shovel duties.
I have spent the weekend digging out a channel to place a drain in. Its 15m long and around a foot wide and 2 foot deep. Had to barrow have the spoil to the front of the house and shovel into a handy trailer a farmer friend dropped off for me. Taken several hours but I am an unfit overweight 40 something.
In the meantime my neighbour has had a digger in to dig a new ditch, this weekend it has dug all of 10ft, so I can confidently say its quicker by hand!
In the meantime my neighbour has had a digger in to dig a new ditch, this weekend it has dug all of 10ft, so I can confidently say its quicker by hand!
Hi,
I don't know if anyone is still interested but I've just put gravel down around my decking area and found this gravel calculator really helpful. Brought the gravel from them as well, I thought it would be cheaper locally, but they were cheaper.
Shake 'n' Bake
I don't know if anyone is still interested but I've just put gravel down around my decking area and found this gravel calculator really helpful. Brought the gravel from them as well, I thought it would be cheaper locally, but they were cheaper.
Shake 'n' Bake
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