CONCRETE IN THE GROUND IS NO FUN #AnswerAsAPercent 2236

Added: 2026-05-09

[00:00:02]Tuesday morning. They balanced really well.

[00:00:10]Push them up. Shove them square in heavy mer.

[00:00:18]Should have put that one way around.

[00:00:19]It's got a green stain on it.

[00:00:28]All the love fixing buckets. So, he's just welding this one up now off the Merlin.

[00:00:36]Big job on here. Well, not really. I'm just going to pull a couple of tree stumps out for the school cuz I pull a poly tunnel up. So, just nipped up with the Merlo now.

[00:00:46]Let's wrap a chain around them and pull them or just push them with the bucket.

[00:00:49]We'll see what happens.

[00:00:58]Pop them all out with a pallet fork.

[00:01:04]Tidy up now with a bucket.

[00:01:08]It's definitely saved you some spade work, ain't it?

[00:01:13]Who needs a 20 ton digger?

[00:01:21]Got me concrete paddle. I'm going to go and should have the laser in here. We're going to go and lay the concrete for the footings. Now, jump the gun. If you turn the ignition too quick like it, typically the first one was uh low, so we have to make a little dry stone wall.

[00:01:51]That one was easy. We were just in the stone there. You have to make a wall.

[00:01:54]This one should be the same.

[00:02:00]We're going to bring that big roller up tomorrow. Roll this.

[00:02:04]One, two, three, four, five, six, seven. Might get six, seven.

[00:02:10]Something with the kids that in it.

[00:02:11]Might get that done.

[00:02:16]These are all right. It's just the end one that we had to do a dry stone wall around. Maybe that one over there.

[00:02:26]Been an old land rain in this one.

[00:02:33]All spot on. It's just starting to rain.

[00:02:35]Just got it in two trucks as well.

[00:02:37]There's the other one leaving now, which is handy. Um, didn't really want it to rain afterwards, but at least we not got wet doing it. That's annoying. I just dropped that. It's broken.

[00:02:49]But at least at least it's finished. It' be annoying if it got here. It would have broke when we got here. But the other one that we had yesterday wasn't working either. So, um whether I can get a replacement one, I don't know. But yeah, it's good job that all filled up. So, the stansion bases just bolt straight onto that. Now, they're a foot below finished floor level. So there'll be them 6 in of stone which is there or thereabouts and concrete on top.

[00:03:26]That's a new piece of steel for the bucket. Must be good stuff. It's not even flexing on the pallet corks.

[00:03:31]Morgan's fixing the bucket. Obviously John's been scraping up and tidying up.

[00:03:38]Charlotte's doing the dog feels there. She going >> kill the dog field.

[00:03:50]>> Do the dog feels. Yeah.

[00:03:54]There's the uh 20 tundles pan and brush.

[00:04:01]Unbelievable how much wood ch it blows about the yard. I mean, there's a huge pile there just so windy the last few weeks. While John's been tidying up with the digger, we thought we'd tidy this up before we're down this end of the yard with it.

[00:04:20]They were put there in 1976 or 78 when the house was built. So what's that? 50 something years.

[00:04:34]The old house fell down with mining substance and then this one was built.

[00:04:48]Oh, it don't fit.

[00:05:01]Good cement though.

[00:05:12]I'll probably pick them up with a pallet fox forks.

[00:05:17]Morgan's flipping the bucket over ready to put the new plate in the bottom.

[00:05:22]A brick pallet. I wonder can I lift that one on top of that and then taking both at the same time?

[00:05:35]Snapping off. Oh, >> definitely needs a new bottom now.

[00:05:48]He's just plasma cutting it out. I think he's going to try and leave them in and then put the new plate in.

[00:05:57]Yeah, nice thick piece of heavy steel to go in.

[00:06:07]It's all right. Is it fit?

[00:06:21]Then the wheels bent.

[00:06:23]Is it the same?

[00:06:27]>> I think I found that at Wellbrook or Brook House, you know.

[00:06:31]I didn't find it here.

[00:06:34]It's the old hay rake.

[00:06:37]We just found that tine in the garden.

[00:06:43]>> He's had it upside down. He's hacked all the welds out, which is these bits here.

[00:06:47]And uh putting on his new leather coat.

[00:06:50]>> Yeah.

[00:06:50]>> Could wear that for going out, couldn't you?

[00:06:52]>> Oh, yeah. Yeah.

[00:06:53]>> 20 quid. Bargain. I'm just going to cut the rest out and then cut this to size and then slot it in.

[00:07:03]Starting to look a little bit tidy. I didn't really want to start this project, but because we were tidying up down there, this looked odd. Just found that. That was a go-kart wheel. The go-kart I made when I was probably not much older than James.

[00:07:17]And then that does anyone know what that is?

[00:07:22]Two bits of something. That is today's quiz question. I know me dad will know what it is.

[00:07:30]the good old class chisel.

[00:07:35]Many of you use that fire to the brush. Finally scorched.

[00:08:05]>> Should have well should have sept in the middle. It makes us need.

[00:08:10]>> That's a bit neater now. I've just put a bit of wood chip on it. But to be honest, we're going to put a little fence first. I'm just going to pick some rails up, but not today. Now got a meeting with the National Sheep Association about hosting these 600 school children next month.

[00:08:27]John's filling that up with diesel. Dump trailers on ready for tomorrow. Should be able to move some more stone for the shed base up here.

[00:08:39]Which tractor is that? Oh yeah, it's the one I did. I did wash that the other day. It's amazing how dirty it's already got.

[00:08:44]Andrew has been out with the hoe today.

[00:08:46]I didn't get chance to go to the field and watch it, but it's worked much better now. It's had a little bit of rain and the ground's been that bit softer. So, he's he's done them fields that we were trying to do the other day.

[00:08:59]That carbide's good, isn't it?

[00:09:05]The barley behind the yard has greened up now, but it's still still not going to yield what it could have done cuz it's sort of knocked it, but it's just coming into here now. So, couple of days this will be full of whiskers all over. You can just see the odd one sticking up now.

[00:09:24]But on a missin today and took a tissue sample to see what what happened to it, but it looks so sick the other day for about 3 weeks.

[00:09:42]Just looking. You can't see cuz it's been up and down here, but Andrew went through this the other day with the hoe.

[00:09:52]Maybe it was there.

[00:09:58]That roller's got it like iron.

[00:10:04]Yeah. Just need to keep layering it in and get it flat cuz it proper drops off.

[00:10:13]It's a bit water coming out the plasma before. It's got like a thing on it to stop it going through it. So Morgan's drained the compressor tank overnight.

[00:10:22]That's trimmed now, ready to go in. The old floor is pretty much out. So that new one will now go in. Should sit under here. But above that, it's just been polishing that off ready.

[00:10:37]Little bit of a bit to cut off there.

[00:10:41]That goes in. Weld it in. Then this was the original cutting edge. Then this was a new one put on. So that then will be cut out once everything's square and the new cutting edge will go on. I think the sheet of steel was 200 pound. The cutting edge was about 300 pound.

[00:10:56]And then it should be like new. A few little cracks and bits to weld up. Um we started on this crack up here where it had cracked the other day and then few little cracks there. But I think a new bucket like that now is over £2,000. So, it's worth the 500 quid investment. And I also think as well that came on an 06 Merlo, so it could be 20 years old.

[00:11:33]But the sticker has faded and you can't see, but it used to say on there, but it's had a it's had several new edges over the years, but never had a new floor.

[00:11:55]You see exactly where the boiler pipe's headed to the house.

[00:12:00]Would look smart concreted, but it's a bit industrial in it. So, we'll wood chip it. Post the rail fence. Job's a good one. Dead easy birthday bump today.

[00:12:08]We got Daniel Crimp. He's on there. He's from Anglec and Finton Walsh is five from New Zealand. I think I think Daniel might be a gamekeeper actually as well. Uh £113,411 raised for the Northwest Ambulance. Has anyone been checking out where them tractors are getting up to? Uh going from John Gross Land's End. Um we might try and capture when he passed through this region. I've burnt myself, though.

[00:12:33]It feels like it's been dull all day and cold. Uh, so the sun has been getting through and I've I've now got a red face. Anyway, time to go and do this meeting with the National Sheep Association because we're organizing the 500 children that are arriving in June and all where everything's going to go because they're bringing sheep, they're bringing cows, they're bringing pigs, and then we're doing some stuff with machinery as well. So, that's all today.

[00:12:56]Thanks for watching and I'll see you tomorrow. Bye for now.