Anyone know of anywhere in Edinburgh where I can get my hands on some (untreated) railway sleepers for a reasonable price?
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(16 posts)- Started 11 years ago by Wilmington's Cow
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Posted 11 years ago #
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I got uncreosoted but tanalised "sleepers" from George Walker 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.
Price seems reasonable enough.
Posted 11 years ago # -
Hmm. Maybe not that particular place. It used to be on the A8000 but is gone now. Must be somewhere similar.
Posted 11 years ago # -
Cheers Insto.
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.
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Big piles of them in the railway yards under the bridge over Sir Harry Lauder Road and the rail-lines in Porty.
Do you have a van? ;)
Posted 11 years ago # -
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.
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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.
Posted 11 years ago # -
I can get you lots of creosoted ones...in Canada
Posted 11 years ago # -
Timber are rare these days why not consider concrete sleepers as we used for revetments and bridges on cycle paths.
Small issue Cutting the modern pre-stressed units can be rather hazardous.
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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.
Posted 11 years ago # -
Gembo, that interests me - what does a ton of sandstone look like?
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Same as a ton of feathers, only heavier.
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"what does a ton of sandstone look like?"
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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"
http://isse.utk.edu/ccp/projects/naturalstone/pdfs/Sandstone_LCIv2.pdf
https://www.google.co.uk/search?q=ton+of+sandstone&hl=en&source=lnms&tbm=isch
Hope that helps...
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Ah now nelly, that would totally depend on your selection of stone and stacking of stone abilities.
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.
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Actually could just have asked Andy up the road - he is a mason and always has chunks of sandstone in his truck.
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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.
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