Questions you'd like answering, regardless of how trivial they may seem

[grldtnr]

Serious question. How do you dispose of old, past any useful life, railway sleepers?

What exactly are you doing with a job lot of railway sleepers? If your intention is to recycle them, and you have the machinery , there's a lot of usefull timber once you stripped away the manky bits , but in reality there's not much you can do.
Perhaps chip them and use it as garden mulch for paths and weed suppression

 

[Chris S]

Perhaps chip them and use it as garden mulch for paths and weed suppression

I think they'd be contaminated by oil and soot from the thousands of trains that have passed over them.

 

[Electric_Andy]

I think they'd be contaminated by oil and soot from the thousands of trains that have passed over them.

Ideal waterproofing. I dare say if you plained an inch off all 4 sides they would be very clean inside. Unless of course they are rotten right through. Maybe advertise them for free, it's a shame to see such things go to waste when someone else can use them

 

[Gwylan]

Ideal waterproofing. I dare say if you plained an inch off all 4 sides they would be very clean inside. Unless of course they are rotten right through. Maybe advertise them for free, it's a shame to see such things go to waste when someone else can use them

They are useless, old. My garden is too small for any sort of bonfire. Also they are large ugly decomposing lumps.
In the past when I negotiated buying companies we did huge environmental checks.
Sadly I was not so efficient in my own back yard.

 

[Jameshow]

Petrol station tankers do they discharge with gravity or pump?

 

[Jameshow]

Who has the fastest reactions?:-

1) F1 drivers
2) Rally drivers
3) Fighter pilots

I'm going for 2!

 

[grldtnr]

Who has the fastest reactions?:-

1) F1 drivers
2) Rally drivers
3) Fighter pilots

I'm going for 2!

Fighter pilots are only there to control the computers, i'd tend to agree that Rally drivers will have quickest reactions

 

[grldtnr]

They are useless, old. My garden is too small for any sort of bonfire. Also they are large ugly decomposing lumps.
In the past when I negotiated buying companies we did huge environmental checks.
Sadly I was not so efficient in my own back yard.

If those sleepers are tropical hardwood, I doubt they would be that rotten, but to rid off them sustantially might be hard ask ,can you lift them at all?
Boatyards might be interested in them , it's the time of year yachties and other boaties bring boats ashore, and yards always look at big baulks to chock boats up.

 

[Jameshow]

Serious question. How do you dispose of old, past any useful life, railway sleepers?

If they are hardwood a woodworker might like them?
Cut into them and see if they are best oak or iroko or something?

Post on UK workshop etc.

Pm a pic and I'll happily do it.

 

[Gwylan]

If they are hardwood a woodworker might like them?
Cut into them and see if they are best oak or iroko or something?

Post on UK workshop etc.

Pm a pic and I'll happily do it.

No they are past that. I now have a 4m square pit. Full of rubble and detritus. Hopefully we won't find body parts.
A couple of tonnes of worm eaten, wet decomposed former timber. All looking for a new home.
Reluctant to pay a recycler to take it and dump it in a lay-by.
Not enough space for a bonfire

 

[grldtnr]

No they are past that. I now have a 4m square pit. Full of rubble and detritus. Hopefully we won't find body parts.
A couple of tonnes of worm eaten, wet decomposed former timber. All looking for a new home.
Reluctant to pay a recycler to take it and dump it in a lay-by.
Not enough space for a bonfire

It's fair to say , you will just have find an approved waste recycler, to cart it off there are no other options ,except to burn of bury in your current location ,.
We 'hive' minders have exhausted our options.

 

[Gillstay]

Wait till November 5th.

Cripes with all those heavy metals and nasties you do not want to be burning. Tricky to get rid off. I have just tucked mine round the back of the garden and left alone.

 

[Gwylan]

Looks like pucker up and get a skip and professional to deal with it.

 

[Ming the Merciless]

Who has the fastest reactions?:-

1) F1 drivers
2) Rally drivers
3) Fighter pilots

I'm going for 2!

1. Fastest reaction to simple things
2. They are more about fastest reflexes
3. Fastest reaction to complex things