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OT: Does anyone have heavy stuff?

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  1. Uberuce
    Member

    It's for the PY cargo meeting. As long as it fits these criteria, it really doesn't matter what it is.

    Criteria:

    1) About 80kg of it
    2) Not hugely bulky.
    3) Easy to transfer between bike and trailers
    4) Unlikely to damage or soil a bike/trailer
    5) Cheaper than £3.62.

    £3.62 is the price of two 40kg-ish bags of concrete ballast from the Wickes down the road. Bizarrely it appears to be more expensive to buy loose sandbags that I could fill with free dirt than to pay for the aggregate itself.

    The ideal thing would be weight training plates or dumbells, and infuriatingly I kept 80kg of them in my flat for years, but when my knees busted I gave them away. The aggregate bags look to be a close second.

    If anyone happens to be planning DIY or gardening that need aggregates or compost, then I'll get it and sell it on to you.

    Posted 12 years ago #

  2. Darkerside
    Member

    Were it not for being in Glasgow I would offer myself, given I fit the criteria rather well...

    Posted 12 years ago #

  3. chdot
    Admin

    The services offered by CCE members get more bizarre! -

    "If anyone happens to be planning DIY or gardening that need aggregates or compost, then I'll get it and sell it on to you."

    Posted 12 years ago #

  4. Uberuce
    Member

    @chdot: Isn't the internet wonderful?

    Hrm. It seems they're only 25kg-ish bags. They look about the same size as the 40kg ones I packed for my summer job when I was a student, but those memories are 14 years old now and apparently faulty.

    That now raises the budget to £5.43. It's annoying because there's obviously huge amounts of free heavy stuff lying all over the place, but it's usually all mank, and I want to keep the Bullitt shiny clean.

    Tomorrow, if I'm not too tired from East Fortune I'll head to the Sighthill recycling and see how easy it is to take the ballast slabs out of washing machines.

    Posted 12 years ago #

  5. steveo
    Member

    I've got 3 bags of stones in the front garden, not sure how heavy they are but your free to borrow them for a few days.

    Posted 12 years ago #

  6. chdot
    Admin

    "@chdot: Isn't the internet wonderful?"

    YES -

    http://citycyclingedinburgh.info/bbpress/topic.php?id=8494

    - and those smart little handheld devices.

    Posted 12 years ago #

  7. kaputnik
    Moderator

    Water is free, if you can find an 80l container for it.

    Posted 12 years ago #

  8. chdot
    Admin

    "Water is free"

    That's a myth...

    Posted 12 years ago #

  9. steveo
    Member

    Leave it connected to a roof gutter for a few days and you'll have free water.

    Posted 12 years ago #

  10. Uberuce
    Member

    Unless they're teensy tiny bags of stones, then I suspect you're the frontrunner, Steveo.

    Posted 12 years ago #

  11. ExcitableBoy
    Member

    Darkerside beat me to it, I was going to offer my children, you'd only need one and a bit - they are both in Edinburgh though!

    Posted 12 years ago #

  12. Roibeard
    Member

    Lead? I can probably get access to some, conveniently stored in a lock-up no distance from PY.

    Also conveniently available in blocks ranging from 2lb to 10lb (or 2kg to 4kg probably).

    Robert

    Posted 12 years ago #

  13. chdot
    Admin

    "I can probably get access to some, conveniently stored in a lock-up no distance from PY."

    This just gets weirder!

    Posted 12 years ago #

  14. Uberuce
    Member

    That sounds exceedingly handy for the pannier mob; the likes of big bags aren't of use for them.

    Posted 12 years ago #

  15. Dave
    Member

    Diving weights? :-)

    Posted 12 years ago #

  16. Uberuce
    Member

    Ah, that would make sense.

    There's already speculation as to what nonsense you're going to turn up with, Dave. I personally think you'll go for maximum unpredictability and carry freely naught but a carbon-fibre bottle cage just to confound expectations.

    Posted 12 years ago #

  17. retrodirect
    Member

    We've got about 3metres of scaffold pipe, a motorbike wheel, motorbike disc and chainwheel we're getting rid of from our lockup (dean village). Want it?

    Posted 12 years ago #

  18. Uberuce
    Member

    I'm pretty sure Steveo's stoneybags are going to do the business, but thankee for the offer.

    Posted 12 years ago #

  19. Uberuce
    Member

    Trundled round and collected 3x25kg of naturally round stone from steveo. Around halfway to his I noticed that the low-slung rear light on the MTB is completely obscured by the recycle box on the trailer unless you're already overtaking me, so Steve kindly donated a couple of blinkies to get me home in one piece. We like Steve. He's a good egg.

    The amount of surge on the trailer when it's so laden is pretty disconcerting. Ruggtomcat reports that it's nothing like as bad when recumbent, and certainly I noticed it's worse if you're out the saddle. Maybe if you don't want to go laidback, the compromise would be beach cruiser.

    For the lulz, I took it to the top of Ashley Terrace, and found the 20.3" bottom gear of the tractor too spinny, so bumped it up to 27.1" until things got interesting although still pretty comfy.

    Kudos to the drivers behind me on Slateford-into-Ashley Terrace; they must have figured out that I was hauling something unusually burly from how sluggishly I was setting off and gave me oodles of room.

    Posted 12 years ago #

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