Railway Sleepers!!

leeky · « **on:** May 08, 2007, 00:14 »

check out the projects bit

http://www.railwaysleeper.com

cool raised beds!

Trillium · « **Reply #1 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:

GrannieAnnie · « **Reply #2 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?

jack russell · « **Reply #3 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

leeky · « **Reply #4 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

quite like the idea of damaged/wonky ones too

shaun · « **Reply #5 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

leeky · « **Reply #6 on:** May 15, 2007, 23:15 »

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

jack russell · « **Reply #7 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.

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

cheers

jr

jack russell · « **Reply #8 on:** May 17, 2007, 22:31 »

shaun · « **Reply #9 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'

jack russell · « **Reply #10 on:** May 18, 2007, 19:13 »

must be that North / South thingy

cheers

jr

shaun · « **Reply #11 on:** May 18, 2007, 22:21 »

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

leeky · « **Reply #12 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.

jack russell · « **Reply #13 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,

cheers

jr

citspeed · « **Reply #14 on:** May 25, 2007, 21:39 »

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

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