http://citycyclingedinburgh.info/bbpress/ CityCyclingEdinburgh Forum » Topic: OT: Railway Sleepers en Wed, 13 May 2026 04:30:50 +0000 http://citycyclingedinburgh.info/bbpress/topic.php?id=9570#post-101981 Mon, 25 Feb 2013 22:00:11 +0000 gembo 101981@http://citycyclingedinburgh.info/bbpress/ <p>Yes, I would take chunks of sandstone from back of andy's van but quite heavy on individual basis. Have large collection of rubble/ stone right at the bottom of the hill, holding the landat bay. Have curious idea about using cages like motorway gullions. Have been known to covet odd it's of stone. Also partial to bits of wood, but those get burnt. </p> http://citycyclingedinburgh.info/bbpress/topic.php?id=9570#post-101980 Mon, 25 Feb 2013 21:55:43 +0000 Nelly 101980@http://citycyclingedinburgh.info/bbpress/ <p>Actually could just have asked Andy up the road - he is a mason and always has chunks of sandstone in his truck. </p> http://citycyclingedinburgh.info/bbpress/topic.php?id=9570#post-101979 Mon, 25 Feb 2013 21:52:39 +0000 gembo 101979@http://citycyclingedinburgh.info/bbpress/ <p>Ah now nelly, that would totally depend on your selection of stone and stacking of stone abilities.</p> <p>When I first started buying tons of stone down in Granton they were quite specific that I should keep the sides level all the way up so the ton would look like a cube of dry stane wall about five or six stones high. Now they laughed at my efforts which became more like a pyramid as I stacked of a lunch hour in the summer time, having cycled down from McDonald road office. However, they could still get the cling film round my pile of stone and it was close enough to a ton or probably a tonne to allow them to charge me the desired amount which at that time was £50 a ton plus vat. I think I might have had about seven tonnes/tons off them over the years and latterly had to go to Broxburn which is a curious setting for Granton Rock and Stone but they sold their yard to the harbour developer. Enabled several walls to be built in my garden. It hasn't recently come out of a quarry, it has been reclaimed from buildings that have been knocked down. Nicer stone is available but it is dearer. </p> http://citycyclingedinburgh.info/bbpress/topic.php?id=9570#post-101978 Mon, 25 Feb 2013 21:51:27 +0000 chdot 101978@http://citycyclingedinburgh.info/bbpress/ <p>"what does a ton of sandstone look like?"</p> <p>"<br /> the functional unit has been changed from 1 net ton of sandstone produced to 1 net ft3 of sandstone produced. The data can conveniently be converted to a basis of tons by using the weighted average density of 156 lb/ft3</p> <p>"</p> <p><a href="http://isse.utk.edu/ccp/projects/naturalstone/pdfs/Sandstone_LCIv2.pdf" rel="nofollow">http://isse.utk.edu/ccp/projects/naturalstone/pdfs/Sandstone_LCIv2.pdf</a></p> <p><a href="https://www.google.co.uk/search?q=ton+of+sandstone&amp;hl=en&amp;source=lnms&amp;tbm=isch" rel="nofollow">https://www.google.co.uk/search?q=ton+of+sandstone&amp;hl=en&amp;source=lnms&amp;tbm=isch</a></p> <p>Hope that helps... </p> http://citycyclingedinburgh.info/bbpress/topic.php?id=9570#post-101976 Mon, 25 Feb 2013 21:39:54 +0000 Uberuce 101976@http://citycyclingedinburgh.info/bbpress/ <p>Same as a ton of feathers, only heavier. </p> http://citycyclingedinburgh.info/bbpress/topic.php?id=9570#post-101974 Mon, 25 Feb 2013 21:35:48 +0000 Nelly 101974@http://citycyclingedinburgh.info/bbpress/ <p>Gembo, that interests me - what does a ton of sandstone look like? </p> http://citycyclingedinburgh.info/bbpress/topic.php?id=9570#post-101957 Mon, 25 Feb 2013 20:44:08 +0000 gembo 101957@http://citycyclingedinburgh.info/bbpress/ <p>You can get a tonne of sandstone for £65 plus vat down at Granton. Well except they have moved to Broxburn, but you can cycle there, You stack it on a pallet, they wrap it in cling film then deliver it to your house. You then use it to build dry stane walls. However, if your project is tap all to do with this then you should disregards this info. </p> http://citycyclingedinburgh.info/bbpress/topic.php?id=9570#post-101941 Mon, 25 Feb 2013 18:44:05 +0000 Tulyar 101941@http://citycyclingedinburgh.info/bbpress/ <p>Timber are rare these days why not consider concrete sleepers as we used for revetments and bridges on cycle paths. </p> <p>Small issue Cutting the modern pre-stressed units can be rather hazardous. </p> http://citycyclingedinburgh.info/bbpress/topic.php?id=9570#post-101888 Mon, 25 Feb 2013 14:33:13 +0000 SRD 101888@http://citycyclingedinburgh.info/bbpress/ <p>I can get you lots of creosoted ones...in Canada </p> http://citycyclingedinburgh.info/bbpress/topic.php?id=9570#post-101887 Mon, 25 Feb 2013 14:32:36 +0000 Instography 101887@http://citycyclingedinburgh.info/bbpress/ <p>If you need enough of them, this place works out quite cheap for the sleepers. Don't be fooled by the free delivery. It's not free to, well, Scotland but maybe worth a phone call to see how much it would cost.</p> <p><a href="http://www.tradelocker.co.uk/36-new-railway-sleepers" rel="nofollow">http://www.tradelocker.co.uk/36-new-railway-sleepers</a> </p> http://citycyclingedinburgh.info/bbpress/topic.php?id=9570#post-101882 Mon, 25 Feb 2013 14:24:34 +0000 kaputnik 101882@http://citycyclingedinburgh.info/bbpress/ <p>If you need enough for a funeral pyre, MAFF (as I think it then was) found out to its cost during last foot and mouth outbreak that the 1969 plan to deal with it of "get lots of railway sleepers off of BR and have a big bonfire" doesn't work when modern sleepers are precast concrete. </p> http://citycyclingedinburgh.info/bbpress/topic.php?id=9570#post-101877 Mon, 25 Feb 2013 14:11:03 +0000 Coxy 101877@http://citycyclingedinburgh.info/bbpress/ <p>Big piles of them in the railway yards under the bridge over Sir Harry Lauder Road and the rail-lines in Porty.</p> <p>Do you have a van? ;) </p> http://citycyclingedinburgh.info/bbpress/topic.php?id=9570#post-101856 Mon, 25 Feb 2013 11:40:31 +0000 Wilmington's Cow 101856@http://citycyclingedinburgh.info/bbpress/ <p>Cheers Insto.</p> <p>Basically after somewhere local cos delivery might cost a lot less! One of those projects I finally need to get round to after we cleared the wild-ish area back a bit at the bottom of the garden. </p> http://citycyclingedinburgh.info/bbpress/topic.php?id=9570#post-101854 Mon, 25 Feb 2013 11:38:37 +0000 Instography 101854@http://citycyclingedinburgh.info/bbpress/ <p>Hmm. Maybe not that particular place. It used to be on the A8000 but is gone now. Must be somewhere similar. </p> http://citycyclingedinburgh.info/bbpress/topic.php?id=9570#post-101853 Mon, 25 Feb 2013 11:37:13 +0000 Instography 101853@http://citycyclingedinburgh.info/bbpress/ <p>I got uncreosoted but tanalised "sleepers" from <a href="http://www.george-walker.co.uk/products/Railway_Sleepers/">George Walker</a> timber. I say "sleepers" because they're softwood. Sleeper shaped. Fine for garden structures and you can add DPC membrane and heavy duty plastic if you're putting them in direct contact with the ground.</p> <p>Price seems reasonable enough. </p> http://citycyclingedinburgh.info/bbpress/topic.php?id=9570#post-101852 Mon, 25 Feb 2013 11:33:14 +0000 Wilmington's Cow 101852@http://citycyclingedinburgh.info/bbpress/ <p>Anyone know of anywhere in Edinburgh where I can get my hands on some (untreated) railway sleepers for a reasonable price? </p>