Concrete sleepers for tracks

[Cows 'n grass]

We've had some stone tracks in for 9 years now, never done any maintenance to any of them, I think you need the right stuff.

The is nothing suitable around here, its all soft shillate, so we have to buy in crushed concrete.

My milking platform has 5 different landowners, none of whom would like me putting stone tracks across the middle of fields but they're all quite happy for me to lay sleepers because they can so easily be removed, and I'm happy because I don't have capital tied up in tracks that I would lose if I lost the land.

 

[jerseycowsman]

The is nothing suitable around here, its all soft shillate, so we have to buy in crushed concrete.

My milking platform has 5 different landowners, none of whom would like me putting stone tracks across the middle of fields but they're all quite happy for me to lay sleepers because they can so easily be removed, and I'm happy because I don't have capital tied up in tracks that I would lose if I lost the land.View attachment 112738

I had never really thought about it being easy to move them again!
That is a very good point!
How wide is a sleeper - 12"? At £6 each that's £18 a yard, quite a lot, but like you say, if you change your mind it's easy to move

 

[glasshouse]

The is nothing suitable around here, its all soft shillate, so we have to buy in crushed concrete.

My milking platform has 5 different landowners, none of whom would like me putting stone tracks across the middle of fields but they're all quite happy for me to lay sleepers because they can so easily be removed, and I'm happy because I don't have capital tied up in tracks that I would lose if I lost the land.View attachment 112738

how do you lay them? what are sizes?

 

[TomB]

Sadly only 10" 250mm so 4 to the metre. Not a cheap do but the very best track. Ours came via AR Richards mentioned above.