Challenge Accepted, Moving 18 Tons of Topsoil in 9 Hours! (A Day In The Life Of A UK Gardener EP42)
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- Опубліковано 10 лют 2025
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You might as well put a brick edge down the side of that flower bed to match the path, it also saves on edging the grass ever time the grass is cut. Great work lads enjoy your pint.👍
That is a great suggestion. However, I don't actually think the customer would be willing to front the extra cost associated with that.
Fantastic work fellas it’s really coming on now
Hope the skip company can sort this bill out
So many people trying it on now a-days
Loving the energy mate 💪🏼
It is a ridiculous number of people who are trying to request, but like I said, you've got to hold your ground.
The skip company has passed a bill on to the driver. I'm really looking forward to the end result are also close now.
I remember back in the olden days when I had to move about 8 ton of gravel on my own! No way I could shift that much in a day now.
Its hard work ill say that, 8 ton on your own is a fair bit.
Looks amazing, hope you lads enjoyed the pub, well deserved 🍻
Thank you very much. We did enjoy a pint. It really is taking shape now.
Tidy really coming together. A hard days work there mate keep it up
I definitely wasn't an easy one, and i'm still feeling it two days on.
Damn i know shovelling all that would be extremely lavour intensive, well do e to both of you for getting in done in a day! As far a tipping on the road, sometime there's circumstances out of our control but you dealt with it and kept it all tidy, thats all that counts!
It definitely was labor-intensive, my friend, but a strong body is a strong mind. We worked incredibly hard, and I was running behind the barrows at one point, and I'm not joking 🤣
Great video, actually at the point where I look forward to your videos bit like an ashville series 🤣
Im blown away,I literally take inspiration from asheville, and you've noticed, wow. Daniel is literally one of the bloke I look up to the most. I also used to work in waste management, and i'm striving to have a yard of my own. So he really is one of my inspirations!
@@HDGardenCare No problem mate 😀
To dry the balast a bag of hydrated or hydraulic lime raked in to the stone will literally dry the stone up and get you out of trouble.
This also works if you get a soft spot of clay on a dig out and can save you a fortune in crush and run or mot, if you have a machine on site spread the lime then track it in last thing in the day and the following morning the ground will be dried.
Sounds a bit crazy but lime is used in civil engineering sites a lot for temporary roads etc to save on depth of stone.
Dont be tempted to try with cement as it only forms a crust and does not work in the same way or at all.
What a fantastic comment. Thank you very much for the advice. If worse comes to worst I was definitely be. Given this a guy what a fantastic suggestion. Thank you.
Ive barrowed and spread 10 tons of gravel solo in a day, hard graft and you feel it afterwards.
The shoveling is the worst part, the barrowing isnt that bad.
My inclination would have been to have done that solo and hired a digger to load the barrow you would likely have been done by mid afternoon and not reliant on a labourer or knakering yourself.
If you ever see one a roundmouth shovel is worth buying, having a point they push in to piles of soil or balast farr easier and with less effort than a regular shovel.
I could have hired a digger, but it would have worked out to be more expensive. I'll have to continue doing this sort of work. I'll have to invest in one over the next few years. It will pay for itself in no time.
I'll have to give one of those rounded trowels a go next time. I saw one in the garden centre. I'll pick it up.
Thanks for the comment.
Nice job mate, a mammoth effort on the topsoil but the results speak for themselves 😊
It definitely was a massive push, but we got it done. I don't think I'll be repeating this anytime soon to be fair. 😅
God knows why they wanted such large bed areas, the maintenance on it will be huge but each to their own.
They had a plan they had me follow, and they were pretty precise on it. But who am I to complain. If I do a good job here, who do you think willl be getting the maintenance work!
@@HDGardenCare yeah your just doing what they wanted, just think there bit excessive for size of the garden but upto them ain't it.
Well you and your mates worked extremely hard shifting that soil.
We definitely did. I'm not joking. I was running behind the barrows at one point.
Should have used a tracked dumper save on all that hard work 10 times quicker with digger to load
I am aware of this, and we did have a digger on the site, but unfortunately, the rental ended for it. Machinery rentals are crazy. It would work out to be more expensive. However, if I were to own the machines, they would pay for themselves and then some.
Old School Graft and a Pint afterwards (Probably a few!)
Oh yes, you know the score!
really look forward to seeing the end reas ults (see what I did there)
Oh yes, it's definitely gonna be a stunning. Once it's all complete.
Light work
Next joke!
Hi may be put cones around the soil in the road
Yeah, that's probably not a bad shout to be fair. Thanks for the comment
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Thank you 😋 I really hope you enjoyed the video
What are they doing with the topsoil bro? They ain’t planting? Great video 💪
I'm not sure what's going on in the beds as of yet. I think they re doing all themselves.
Easy shift that lads
Next joke 🤣
Did the skip company not pay for the repair?
No, they just didn't expect the labour to be at the figure, it was but neither did I. Who knew brickies were so expensive. Thank you for the comment. I hope you enjoy the video.
Soooooo did they pay?
The driver has been given the bill!
The job is coming on despite the weather. Yes brickies do charge. Plenty of top soil well done, I've shifted a fare bit myself in my time, always satisfying to see it all in place, nice clean screened soil.as you said you might need an edge to contain it in the beds,or make the bed a little bit wider if possible. Well done for standing your ground with the skip guys. Looking good ATB😊👍
Is the skip company paying for the bit you knocked down as well?
Should really agree the figure with the skip company first before starting work to avoid these kind of disputes about the final invoice.
Nowhere near 18 ton of soil there.
Well, there are 18 tons there. My tip receipts even shows this. It is wet mind you but I can assure you there's a grab load and a tipper load!
@@HDGardenCare you want to get on to your supplier me old mate,they're ripping you off
9 hours Slower than a week in jail u two 🤣🤣
Was this a quoted job or not
Well yes, I quoted for the work I'm not doing it for nothing....
@@HDGardenCare there’s two types of work quoted our customer trusts you by the hour, just wondered, it’s a fair job, I could see you with a few lads grafting for you whilst you over see them, big things ahead
Oh yeah. I was working based on price. I never, ever work based on an hourly or daily rate. I find that makes you lazy. And you definitely get the job done faster when working based on price. And if you know how to price the job correctly in the first place, you definitely end up making more money this way. That's just my opinion, but please share if you have an opposing opinion.
@@HDGardenCare no fair play, when we first set up we d take big jobs on like that but the pricing side annoyed me as you are then working to get it done in time and more thought goes into it out of paid work time, but yeah get your price right and you don’t have to slave away to earn good money
We have 4 lads so I do a mixture of quote and hourly rate (mainly hourly rate)as we need to be flexible so we have 40 hours per person every week all yr round apart from 2 weeks at Christmas, so some of it is on the hourly rate but that’s set to £25-30pm per man so I don’t mind that minimum and then a lot at 30-50 ph hedges, grass cut, contract work and So as not stressed about things going wrong on a job, ours is now very much maintenance
@@HDGardenCare nothing wrong with hourly if it’s a good hourly rate, I’ve quoted jobs and got 30 to sometimes £50ph but your thinking more about it vs hourly rate 30 -40 and just get on with it, key is set your hourly rate as high as possible I guess 😂, I’m happy walking away with 210-250 a day for 7 hours on an hourly rate plus what the other lads take in
2nd potato!
carrot 🥕
First 😂
Thanks for the support. I hope you enjoyed the video.