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Jonnyboy



Joined: 29 Oct 2004
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Location: under some rain.
PostPosted: Fri May 12, 06 9:29 am    Post subject: Reply with quote
    

I'll post a picture up sometime to show how big a 10 ton pile is.

tahir



Joined: 28 Oct 2004
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Location: Essex
PostPosted: Fri May 12, 06 9:33 am    Post subject: Reply with quote
    

Jonnyboy wrote:
I'll post a picture up sometime to show how big a 10 ton pile is.


I know exactly how big a 10 ton pile is, I've barrowed 3 of em up the hill to the plot

tahir



Joined: 28 Oct 2004
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Location: Essex
PostPosted: Fri May 12, 06 9:34 am    Post subject: Reply with quote
    

Jonnyboy wrote:
12inches for the vegetable plot.


What was underneath?

Jonnyboy



Joined: 29 Oct 2004
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Location: under some rain.
PostPosted: Fri May 12, 06 9:43 am    Post subject: Reply with quote
    

tahir wrote:
Jonnyboy wrote:
12inches for the vegetable plot.


What was underneath?


subsoil. rocky, claggy crapsoil.

My new topsoil is lovely, dark brown and crumbly. like 30million smashed up chocolate muffins.

tahir



Joined: 28 Oct 2004
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Location: Essex
PostPosted: Fri May 12, 06 9:45 am    Post subject: Reply with quote
    

I've only gone for 4" on top of my solid clay (rotovated with a couple of inches of mushroom)

Jonnyboy



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PostPosted: Fri May 12, 06 9:45 am    Post subject: Reply with quote
    

Jonnyboy wrote:
I'll post a picture up sometime to show how big a 10 ton pile is.


The above may be the most boring post ever made. Hey I'll post a pic of some mud!!!!

I may have to shoot myself.

tahir



Joined: 28 Oct 2004
Posts: 45672
Location: Essex
PostPosted: Fri May 12, 06 9:46 am    Post subject: Reply with quote
    

Jonnyboy wrote:
I may have to shoot myself.


But you look so happy in the photo...

Jonnyboy



Joined: 29 Oct 2004
Posts: 23956
Location: under some rain.
PostPosted: Fri May 12, 06 9:51 am    Post subject: Reply with quote
    

tahir wrote:
Jonnyboy wrote:
I may have to shoot myself.


But you look so happy in the photo...


You should see what the guys I cut out are doing.

Nick



Joined: 02 Nov 2004
Posts: 34535
Location: Hereford
PostPosted: Fri May 12, 06 10:23 am    Post subject: Reply with quote
    

Are they admiring your helmet?

Mary-Jane



Joined: 13 Jan 2005
Posts: 18397
Location: The Fishing Strumpet is from Ceredigion in West Wales
PostPosted: Fri May 12, 06 10:32 am    Post subject: Reply with quote
    

Two local brothers here have just built themselves a new house a-piece right opposite us and were only too willing to let us have a load of free top soil that they'd had to pile up to enable them to do the building. The rest of it has been distrubuted amongst the neighbourhood one way and another - the brothers' reasoning was that it would be so expensive in terms of time, money and buggerance factor to hire a truck to take it away and try and sell it off elsewhere that they'd rather just give it away around the village. Good idea I thought. It's certainly made them a bit more popular than they were when they first started building on site!

Nick



Joined: 02 Nov 2004
Posts: 34535
Location: Hereford
PostPosted: Fri May 12, 06 12:38 pm    Post subject: Reply with quote
    

nickhowe wrote:
Oh, the other half is going to be delivered today, I hope. Managed to shift about a ton last night, but it's much harder going this morning. The only difference I can see is I had a slight Stella haze last night. Is it too early to half a couple of pints of wife beater, do you think?


Yay, got it shifted, on my own, with no beer. Now, I can open a bottle. Or 14.

judith



Joined: 16 Dec 2004
Posts: 22789
Location: Montgomeryshire
PostPosted: Fri May 12, 06 12:47 pm    Post subject: Reply with quote
    

Go for it. Sounds like you deserve it.

Nick



Joined: 02 Nov 2004
Posts: 34535
Location: Hereford
PostPosted: Fri May 12, 06 1:00 pm    Post subject: Reply with quote
    

Bah, can't. The Man says he'll be here with the second half in under an hour. She'll be home from work at 3.30....

tahir



Joined: 28 Oct 2004
Posts: 45672
Location: Essex
PostPosted: Fri May 12, 06 1:02 pm    Post subject: Reply with quote
    

nickhowe wrote:
She'll be home from work at 3.30....


Getting her to do it? Top move

Nick



Joined: 02 Nov 2004
Posts: 34535
Location: Hereford
PostPosted: Fri May 12, 06 1:04 pm    Post subject: Reply with quote
    

Weirdly, her back seems to have gone. Again.

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