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Jonnyboy

Joined: 29 Oct 2004
Posts: 23956
Location: under some rain.

Posted: Fri May 12, 06 9:29 am Post subject:
I'll post a picture up sometime to show how big a 10 ton pile is.

tahir

Joined: 28 Oct 2004
Posts: 45669
Location: Essex

Posted: Fri May 12, 06 9:33 am Post subject:

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
Posts: 45669
Location: Essex

Posted: Fri May 12, 06 9:34 am Post subject:

Jonnyboy wrote:

12inches for the vegetable plot.

What was underneath?

Jonnyboy

Joined: 29 Oct 2004
Posts: 23956
Location: under some rain.

Posted: Fri May 12, 06 9:43 am Post subject:

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
Posts: 45669
Location: Essex

Posted: Fri May 12, 06 9:45 am Post subject:
I've only gone for 4" on top of my solid clay (rotovated with a couple of inches of mushroom)

Jonnyboy

Joined: 29 Oct 2004
Posts: 23956
Location: under some rain.

Posted: Fri May 12, 06 9:45 am Post subject:

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: 45669
Location: Essex

Posted: Fri May 12, 06 9:46 am Post subject:

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.

Posted: Fri May 12, 06 9:51 am Post subject:

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

Posted: Fri May 12, 06 10:23 am Post subject:
Are they admiring your helmet?

Mary-Jane

Joined: 13 Jan 2005
Posts: 18397
Location: The Fishing Strumpet is from Ceredigion in West Wales

Posted: Fri May 12, 06 10:32 am Post subject:

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

Posted: Fri May 12, 06 12:38 pm Post subject:

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

Posted: Fri May 12, 06 12:47 pm Post subject:
Go for it. Sounds like you deserve it.

Nick

Joined: 02 Nov 2004
Posts: 34535
Location: Hereford

Posted: Fri May 12, 06 1:00 pm Post subject:
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: 45669
Location: Essex

Posted: Fri May 12, 06 1:02 pm Post subject:

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

Posted: Fri May 12, 06 1:04 pm Post subject:
Weirdly, her back seems to have gone. Again.

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