7 tonnes of gravel later...

[BoRED S2upid]

My back hurts, my legs hurt, knee, hands, back, neck, feet, you name it, i've never felt my muscles ache so bad.

But... we now have a nice driveway. So the question is what to park on it?. And will my body ever recover?. Im banking on a bottle of red wine to numb the pain.

[Nicholas Blair]

Lightweight - did 10t today. Feel Ok, but tomorrow will be struggle!

[becksW]

That's about how much we dug up (well husband mainly, though I did help a fair bit) from our garden a couple of years ago. So much gravel, far more than the garden needed. Free cycled it, many grateful people came buy with spades, bags, trailers etc to take a share!

[bd02]

Out of interest what size area did that cover and at what thickness?

[Not now Kato]

7T ? Is that all?
Last weekend I spread, rolled, graded and rolled again 450T.
Admittedly I had a 7T digger, 7T roller, tractor grader and a tipper.

[ipwn]

Seriously, watch out for tommorow

[Swilly]

Not now Kato said:

7T ? Is that all?
Last weekend I spread, rolled, graded and rolled again 450T.
Admittedly I had a 7T digger, 7T roller, tractor grader and a tipper.

450T ? Is that all?

Some years ago I mixed, placed, compacted, cured then floated into the North Sea 100,000T of reinforced concrete...
Admittedly I had 500 men working 24/7, 6 tower cranes, 4 250T mobile cranes, 2 concrete batching plants, a dry dock and a measuring tape.

[no-worries88]

Swilly said:

Not now Kato said:

7T ? Is that all?
Last weekend I spread, rolled, graded and rolled again 450T.
Admittedly I had a 7T digger, 7T roller, tractor grader and a tipper.

450T ? Is that all?

Some years ago I mixed, placed, compacted, cured then floated into the North Sea 100,000T of reinforced concrete...
Admittedly I had 500 men working 24/7, 6 tower cranes, 4 250T mobile cranes, 2 concrete batching plants, a dry dock and a measuring tape.

100,000T? is that all?

Some years ago i thought of,pretended,and wished that i made 143,987,000T of buttered crumpets into the indian ocean.
Admittedly it was a rather long dream,i had 250g of wensleydale working through the night on my pickled imagination.

[Gretchen]

Swilly said:

Not now Kato said:

7T ? Is that all?
Last weekend I spread, rolled, graded and rolled again 450T.
Admittedly I had a 7T digger, 7T roller, tractor grader and a tipper.

450T ? Is that all?

Some years ago I mixed, placed, compacted, cured then floated into the North Sea 100,000T of reinforced concrete...
Admittedly I had 500 men working 24/7, 6 tower cranes, 4 250T mobile cranes, 2 concrete batching plants, a dry dock and a measuring tape.

What a bunch of lightweights. I ate that much gravel for breakfast.

Well done. Of course you remembered to lay all the correct membranes, etc first didnt you?

Bet your backs gonna hurt

[ipwn]

no-worries88 said:

Swilly said:

Not now Kato said:

7T ? Is that all?
Last weekend I spread, rolled, graded and rolled again 450T.
Admittedly I had a 7T digger, 7T roller, tractor grader and a tipper.

450T ? Is that all?

Some years ago I mixed, placed, compacted, cured then floated into the North Sea 100,000T of reinforced concrete...
Admittedly I had 500 men working 24/7, 6 tower cranes, 4 250T mobile cranes, 2 concrete batching plants, a dry dock and a measuring tape.

100,000T? is that all?

Some years ago i thought of,pretended,and wished that i made 143,987,000T of buttered crumpets into the indian ocean.
Admittedly it was a rather long dream,i had 250g of wensleydale working through the night on my pickled imagination.

143,987,000T? is that all?

Some years ago I thought of, pretended, prayed, hoped, expected 195,343,574T of doner meat into the Red Sea.
Admittedly I was day dreaming whilst sitting on a train, I had 300g of Chicken Korma working through the night on my spicy imagination.

[Jasandjules]

I suggest you have a nice warm bath for 20 mins or so.

Tomorrow you will feel it.

[no-worries88]

ipwn said:

no-worries88 said:

Swilly said:

Not now Kato said:

7T ? Is that all?
Last weekend I spread, rolled, graded and rolled again 450T.
Admittedly I had a 7T digger, 7T roller, tractor grader and a tipper.

450T ? Is that all?

Some years ago I mixed, placed, compacted, cured then floated into the North Sea 100,000T of reinforced concrete...
Admittedly I had 500 men working 24/7, 6 tower cranes, 4 250T mobile cranes, 2 concrete batching plants, a dry dock and a measuring tape.

100,000T? is that all?

Some years ago i thought of,pretended,and wished that i made 143,987,000T of buttered crumpets into the indian ocean.
Admittedly it was a rather long dream,i had 250g of wensleydale working through the night on my pickled imagination.

143,987,000T? is that all?

Some years ago I thought of, pretended, prayed, hoped, expected 195,343,574T of doner meat into the Red Sea.
Admittedly I was day dreaming whilst sitting on a train, I had 300g of Chicken Korma working through the night on my spicy imagination.

HA!

Now i know you are just lying!!
Donner meat is banned from the Red Ocean under section 3b,paragraph 132.

The lengths people will go to eh?!

[Autonotiv]

BoRED S2upid said:

My back hurts, my legs hurt, knee, hands, back, neck, feet, you name it, i've never felt my muscles ache so bad.

But... we now have a nice driveway. So the question is what to park on it?. And will my body ever recover?. Im banking on a bottle of red wine to numb the pain.

7 Ton, is that all?

[King Herald]

BoRED S2upid said:

My back hurts, my legs hurt, knee, hands, back, neck, feet, you name it, i've never felt my muscles ache so bad.

But... we now have a nice driveway. So the question is what to park on it?. And will my body ever recover?. Im banking on a bottle of red wine to numb the pain.

Give it a week and 1/3 of the gravel will be all down the street. Every house round our way with a gravel drive has matching trimmings up and down the road.

[10 Pence Short]

All that's nothing. On Monday two of us had built a scaffold, stripped a roof, re-felted and latted it before the afternoon's drinking.

[no-worries88]

10 Pence Short said:

All that's nothing. On Monday two of us had built a scaffold, stripped a roof, re-felted and latted it before the afternoon's drinking.

Real men!
Did you have a padded tartan jacket on whilst you worked?

[ipwn]

no-worries88 said:

ipwn said:

no-worries88 said:

Swilly said:

Not now Kato said:

7T ? Is that all?
Last weekend I spread, rolled, graded and rolled again 450T.
Admittedly I had a 7T digger, 7T roller, tractor grader and a tipper.

450T ? Is that all?

Some years ago I mixed, placed, compacted, cured then floated into the North Sea 100,000T of reinforced concrete...
Admittedly I had 500 men working 24/7, 6 tower cranes, 4 250T mobile cranes, 2 concrete batching plants, a dry dock and a measuring tape.

100,000T? is that all?

Some years ago i thought of,pretended,and wished that i made 143,987,000T of buttered crumpets into the indian ocean.
Admittedly it was a rather long dream,i had 250g of wensleydale working through the night on my pickled imagination.

143,987,000T? is that all?

Some years ago I thought of, pretended, prayed, hoped, expected 195,343,574T of doner meat into the Red Sea.
Admittedly I was day dreaming whilst sitting on a train, I had 300g of Chicken Korma working through the night on my spicy imagination.

HA!

Now i know you are just lying!!
Donner meat is banned from the Red Ocean under section 3b,paragraph 132.

The lengths people will go to eh?!

HA! I know that for a fact !

Hence why I didn't dump it their

Re read me thinks

[10 Pence Short]

no-worries88 said:

10 Pence Short said:

All that's nothing. On Monday two of us had built a scaffold, stripped a roof, re-felted and latted it before the afternoon's drinking.

Real men!
Did you have a padded tartan jacket on whilst you worked?

Nah it was boiling up there, didn't even need my woolly hat! Good job I hadn't had a heavy night the night before, it's not much fun sharing wobbly quick stage scaffold, two stories up, with more than a ton of stacked slates when you're feeling a bit ropey.

[williamp]

I did half a bucket of mortar to fill cracks in my ktchen walls this morning...

[pugwash4x4]

7tons isn't that much

moved 8tonnes of top soil and 4 tonnes of rotted manure couple of weekends ago- had to move both at least twice!