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Rails for building shed

  • 07-02-2011 1:06pm
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    keep going
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    looking for rails for shed. got aprice of 7eu a ft incl vat, should i buy or can you do better


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    reilig
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    keep going wrote: »
    looking for rails for shed. got aprice of 7eu a ft incl vat, should i buy or can you do better

    What size type, size and thickness are the rails and how many ft in total are you looking for?? Will you be buying any other steel for the shed or anyroof or side sheeting?


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    reilig wrote: »
    What size type, size and thickness are the rails and how many ft in total are you looking for?? Will you be buying any other steel for the shed or anyroof or side sheeting?

    its railway rails. put in the tanks under FWMS and going to put in the cubicles, stand the rails, put in the barriers and do the walls, basiclly every thing except the roof.i am using railway rails because we live on the sea (even galvanise rusts here) and they have lasted 50 years in our last shed.open to ideas though


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    reilig
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    keep going wrote: »
    its railway rails. put in the tanks under FWMS and going to put in the cubicles, stand the rails, put in the barriers and do the walls, basiclly every thing except the roof.i am using railway rails because we live on the sea (even galvanise rusts here) and they have lasted 50 years in our last shed.open to ideas though

    Sorry, I can't help you there. I know where I can get railway rails for free - just the cost of cutting. But I'm not selling them.


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    st1979
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    reilig wrote: »
    Sorry, I can't help you there. I know where I can get railway rails for free - just the cost of cutting. But I'm not selling them.

    I know where i could get lots of track for free as well so my advice to you rellig is its not worth derailing a passenger train just to build a shed. Best leave the rail on the railway lines.!!:D


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    reilig
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    st1979 wrote: »
    I know where i could get lots of track for free as well so my advice to you rellig is its not worth derailing a passenger train just to build a shed. Best leave the rail on the railway lines.!!:D

    Its terrible for someone to come on here to be advocating stealing rails off a line :)

    I used to work for a contractor for Irish Rail - driving dumpers and rubber ducks that ran on the rails. in the early 000's there was a full relay of most railway lines in Ireland. One such line runs right by a field of a relative. We were told that anyone who owned land along the line could request rails or sleepers. Well my relative did so I left across 20 rails and 200 sleepers into his field with the duck. Have every gate on the farm hung with a sleeper.
    The rails are left safe, but you'd want gas or a consaw with clamp to cut them up cause they're 45 ft long.

    From 2004 irish rail wouldn't allow landowners along the line to request rails and sleepers. Anything that was loose - a single rail or a few sleepers was buried along the side of the line - because of health and safety and the risk to the farmer. The panels were put up for sale - 2 x 45ft rails with sleepers attached and people had to tender prices for these panels. Much of them were bought and exported to eastern Europe and Russia. All the cut stone from the bridges was brought up the line with the dumpers, tipped and covered with clay.

    A terrible waste and us importing stone from China and India.


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    st1979 wrote: »
    I know where i could get lots of track for free as well so my advice to you rellig is its not worth derailing a passenger train just to build a shed. Best leave the rail on the railway lines.!!:D

    hold on, only building a shed. if we keep going this way next they will be stealing the road out from under us, or maybe they have going by the holes.last year some one told me that irish rail werent upgrading any track any way due to lack of money. thanks for replies


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    reilig
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    keep going wrote: »
    hold on, only building a shed. if we keep going this way next they will be stealing the road out from under us, or maybe they have going by the holes.last year some one told me that irish rail werent upgrading any track any way due to lack of money. thanks for replies

    The last upgrade happened in 2004 I'm afraid and its all continuous rail. It should have a life of 35 - 40 years.


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