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Chatting => Design and Construction => Topic started by: leeky on May 08, 2007, 00:14

Title: Railway Sleepers!!
Post by: leeky on May 08, 2007, 00:14

check out the projects bit  :D  

http://www.railwaysleeper.com


cool raised beds!

(http://img.photobucket.com/albums/v654/stevieaitch/rb1.jpg)

Title: Railway Sleepers!!
Post by: Trillium on May 08, 2007, 15:33

Nice work, Leeky. Over here, all our railway sleepers are heavily treated with black creosote, which will leach into the soil, so they're not a good choice for us  :cry:

Title: Railway Sleepers!!
Post by: GrannieAnnie on May 08, 2007, 15:58

Actually Trillium, so are the ones I've seen over here.  I've never seen such clean square cut railway sleepers in my life before, where'd you get em Leeky????

Title: Railway Sleepers!!
Post by: jack russell on May 08, 2007, 23:27

hi all

you can buy these new sleepers from most builders merchants approx £18.00 each or there abouts.  they are prone to cracking and splitting when the weather is warm for any prolonged period as i have found out this year.

cheers

jr

Title: Railway Sleepers!!
Post by: leeky on May 09, 2007, 09:42

thats a pic of that site, someones raised beds.

seems they have allsorts including the beloved croesote coated ones  :lol:

quite like the idea of damaged/wonky ones too

Title: Railway Sleepers!!
Post by: shaun on May 09, 2007, 15:44

those sleepers wont be £18 each,if they are i will have a 1000 and we will flog them and go halfs 3 ways  :lol:

Title: Railway Sleepers!!
Post by: leeky on May 15, 2007, 23:15

aye. theyd make nice mantel pieces too. hmmmm.  :idea:

Title: Railway Sleepers!!
Post by: jack russell on May 17, 2007, 22:29

Hi

Shaun if you can get that sort of money for weathered sleepers then i can definitely supply them even with the cost of  a 40' trailer delivering them to you there is a penny or two to be made. :lol:  :wink:

you are not that far from me and i cant understand why you would think they would be that expensive

do you have the adtrader in your part  :roll:

check out prices :wink:

cheers

jr

Title: Railway Sleepers!!
Post by: jack russell on May 17, 2007, 22:31

Title: Railway Sleepers!!
Post by: shaun on May 18, 2007, 16:54

hey up jrt they are £25 for a used 8' sleeper and a new one like the ones above are around £40 for a 6'

Title: Railway Sleepers!!
Post by: jack russell on May 18, 2007, 19:13

must be that      North /  South   thingy  :lol:  :lol:

cheers

jr

Title: Railway Sleepers!!
Post by: shaun on May 18, 2007, 22:21

think its more of east west thingy.hows the pup doing has it caught owt yet ?

Title: Railway Sleepers!!
Post by: leeky on May 19, 2007, 00:39

sorry to jump in fellas, but they can be found cheap. mate told me other day about 15 for 30 quid or was it 10 for 30 quid? any road up even if hiring a van for half a day to go and get them plus the gas, still a nice deal.

Title: Railway Sleepers!!
Post by: jack russell on May 20, 2007, 23:05

hi shaun

 the pup is doing great still hard mouths a bit but is learning.

although he has not caught anything yet it is not for the want of trying he will chase anything he sees  rabbits rats leaves and paper blowing lol  but he is a real companion,  :wink:

cheers

jr

Title: sleepers
Post by: citspeed on May 25, 2007, 21:39

must be that north/south thingy as i can get them for £5

Title: Re: sleepers
Post by: phil/anne on October 14, 2007, 15:13

Quote from: "citspeed"

must be that north/south thingy as i can get them for £5

hello sorry to but in around shropshire sleepers sell for 25 quid each ,if you can get them for that £5 + delivery to shropshire I will bare my backside in woolies window  :oops:  :roll:  :D

Title: Railway Sleepers!!
Post by: new_2_veg on October 14, 2007, 17:31

i used to sell out new sleepers, could get them with a range of diffrent treatments.

i lost the storage for them when we moved abd didnt realy want pallets full of them sitting on the drive

nathan

Title: Railway Sleepers!!
Post by: new_2_veg on October 14, 2007, 17:33

mine where 16.05 inc vat   25.00 is very expensive!!

Title: Re: sleepers
Post by: muntjac on October 14, 2007, 18:38

Quote from: "phil/anne"

Quote from: "citspeed"

must be that north/south thingy as i can get them for £5

hello sorry to but in around shropshire sleepers sell for 25 quid each ,if you can get them for that £5 + delivery to shropshire I will bare my backside in woolies window  :oops:  :roll:  :D

 can ya just stand in the window n keep ya trousers up  :lol:

Title: Railway Sleepers!!
Post by: andyk on October 14, 2007, 20:09

ollies wont be happy i was looking around a little time ago and brand new 8 foot £20

Title: Railway Sleepers!!
Post by: Tinbasher on October 14, 2007, 23:03

Quote from: "andyk"

ollies wont be happy i was looking around a little time ago and brand new 8 foot £20

I was quoted on sleepers recently at a salvage yard near Wigan.  Seventeen quid plus VAT (almost exactly 20 quid) for an 8' 6" used sleeper.

Title: Re: sleepers
Post by: phil/anne on October 17, 2007, 09:46

Quote from: "muntjac"

Quote from: "phil/anne"

Quote from: "citspeed"

must be that north/south thingy as i can get them for £5

hello sorry to but in around shropshire sleepers sell for 25 quid each ,if you can get them for that £5 + delivery to shropshire I will bare my backside in woolies window  :oops:  :roll:  :D

 can ya just stand in the window n keep ya trousers up  :lol:

sorry munty hadn,t realised you had seen a pic of me I will get the wife to do it instead  lol

Title: Re: sleepers
Post by: muntjac on October 17, 2007, 11:37

Quote from: "phil/anne"

Quote from: "muntjac"

Quote from: "phil/anne"

Quote from: "citspeed"

must be that north/south thingy as i can get them for £5

hello sorry to but in around shropshire sleepers sell for 25 quid each ,if you can get them for that £5 + delivery to shropshire I will bare my backside in woolies window  :oops:  :roll:  :D

 can ya just stand in the window n keep ya trousers up  :lol:

sorry munty hadn,t realised you had seen a pic of me I will get the wife to do it instead  lol

werks for me ...................................... and the rest the male membership ,,,, lmaooooooooo :lol:  :lol:  :lol:

Title: Railway Sleepers!!
Post by: splodger on October 18, 2007, 20:20

i wouldn't bother with those cheap baltic pine sleepers - i'll stick to chestnut rounds and half rounds for my raised beds (they will outlive me) and i get them very very cheap  :wink: