Railway Sleepers

[CORNFLAKE]

Where's the best place to get good second hand wooden sleepers please. Going to use them as strainers on some fencing. Cheers

 

[JP1]

Where's the best place to get good second hand wooden sleepers please. Going to use them as strainers on some fencing. Cheers

Do Weaver Plant (Bristol) deliver in your area?

 

[RobFZS]

Direct from network rail if you're not far off

https://www.railwayrecycling.co.uk/delivery-locations

 

[milkloss]

Anybody bought any decent creosote sleepers lately? Wondered what they're worth nowadays?

 

[CORNFLAKE]

Cheers. Just checked and there is a depot in Birmingham which isn't a million miles from here. I'll give them a call tomorrow.

 

[burr elm]

place in Corby, cant recall the name, but do a lot of Jarah sleepers, around the 80 kilo mark so you will need 3 weetabix for breakfast.

 

[onthehoof]

place in Corby, cant recall the name, but do a lot of Jarah sleepers, around the 80 kilo mark so you will need 3 weetabix for breakfast.

www.uk-timber.co.uk

 

[Nearly]

Trackwork Doncaster?

 

[Lincs Lass]

If you can find any ,the Austrian sleepers are the best ,EU wont allow them to be reused in gardens or agriculture so they get sent here ,,they are stupidly heavy ,generally 10x5 or 12x6 ,the other ones are Greenheart timbers,,water board used to used then for breakwaters,they are red inside,, ex railways crossing timbers

 

[Bloders]

i can get you a name at Trackwork if you need.
I dont deal with anyone else who supplies them

 

[burr elm]

If you can find any ,the Austrian sleepers are the best ,EU wont allow them to be reused in gardens or agriculture so they get sent here ,,they are stupidly heavy ,generally 10x5 or 12x6 ,the other ones are Greenheart timbers,,water board used to used then for breakwaters,they are red inside,, ex railways crossing timbers

Jarrah is red.

 

[Lincs Lass]

Jarrah is red.

It is like somesort of amazon rain forest timber ,,it can be under water for 50 years but cut into it and its as hard as iron ,,tryed to burn some on my open fire and it just sat there ,wouldnt burn

 

[Bobthebuilder]

It is like somesort of amazon rain forest timber ,,it can be under water for 50 years but cut into it and its as hard as iron ,,tryed to burn some on my open fire and it just sat there ,wouldnt burn

had some of those a few years ago you had to fide a crack in them to knock the stapples into or else they would just bend

 

[davieh3350]

It is like somesort of amazon rain forest timber ,,it can be under water for 50 years but cut into it and its as hard as iron ,,tryed to burn some on my open fire and it just sat there ,wouldnt burn

Estate owner over the hill bought a heap of very large redwood timbers that had come from America, they had been underwater in Inverness harbour for decades, maybe a hundred years, still perfect. He got a sawmill to cut them into smaller sections for him, when they were cutting through one bit they hit something and ruined the blade, curious to see what could be so far inside a massive lump of wood they cut it open, and found an Indians arrowhead!

Sorry, I've no contacts for sleepers.

 

[burr elm]

It is like somesort of amazon rain forest timber ,,it can be under water for 50 years but cut into it and its as hard as iron ,,tryed to burn some on my open fire and it just sat there ,wouldnt burn

Mighty hard and heavy wood, i have a coffee table I made from Jarrah burr some years ago, the only way i could get a screw into it was to drill full length of the screw otherwise the screw would snap.

 

[CORNFLAKE]

Estate owner over the hill bought a heap of very large redwood timbers that had come from America, they had been underwater in Inverness harbour for decades, maybe a hundred years, still perfect. He got a sawmill to cut them into smaller sections for him, when they were cutting through one bit they hit something and ruined the blade, curious to see what could be so far inside a massive lump of wood they cut it open, and found an Indians arrowhead!

Sorry, I've no contacts for sleepers.

 

[David.]

Thought you were going to say there was a fossilized Indian still holding it.
Proper creosoted oak from Europe , with the cowhair washers still stuck to them would be my choice of sleeper.