Buriram Expats
Buriram Province - General Category => Real Estate, housing, house and land ownership => Topic started by: iammike on January 02, 2015, 11:38:14 AM
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Hi Guyz,
first of all a Happy and Healthy New Year to you all.
Has anyone seen Railway Sleepers for sale in the Buriram Area ?
We want to use them for a project in our garden.
Thanks
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Hi Mike, and a happy New Year to you.
I have often seen piles of used sleepers at Krasang Railway stn.
Perhaps your wife could talk to someone there.
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Perfect will do that. We will be going there on Monday (still in Patters) and ask.
Anywhere else maybe ? Have you seen them in Garden centers ? The concrete version would also be oke, but I need to interlock them, so they can't start wandering.
Thanks again
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Never seen them in Garden Centres, and I have been to many.
The Thai's haven't embraced "Hard landscaping" yet.
My ex and myself had a Garden Centre in the UK, could never get enough
Railway sleepers and sold them for stupid money.
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Oke thanks a lot, you saved me lots and lots of Petrol (not have to drive around looking at Garden Centers :) )
Railway stations here we come (55555555555)
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Oke thanks a lot, you saved me lots and lots of Petrol (not have to drive around looking at Garden Centers :) )
Railway stations here we come (55555555555)
Just aheads up. The SRT is replacing wood with concrete sleepers and with construction boom projected for the new rr they won't be using wooden sleepers Sooo. when you find the wooden sleepers but all you can even if it means storing them.
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Oke thanks a lot, you saved me lots and lots of Petrol (not have to drive around looking at Garden Centers :) )
Railway stations here we come (55555555555)
Just aheads up. The SRT is replacing wood with concrete sleepers and with construction boom projected for the new rr they won't be using wooden sleepers Sooo. when you find the wooden sleepers but all you can even if it means storing them.
Thanks GL :idea: :o)
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Never seen them in Garden Centres, and I have been to many.
The Thai's haven't embraced "Hard landscaping" yet.
My ex and myself had a Garden Centre in the UK, could never get enough
Railway sleepers and sold them for stupid money.
You will find them on the Rangsit to Nakhon Nayok. 305 road. Not sure around klong 14/15
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I was told that they are reserved for the use of railway employees. The ones I looked at were unusable anyway. It became illegal to use sleepers in Switzerland because of the high content of creosote (not to mention all the 'waste materials' that have been spilled on them over the years).
I did a lot with sleepers and almost turned it into an art form. We had a chain saw sharpener going nearly all the time as they also contain iron particles.
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Thanks for this, will go and talk to the Stations next week (we are going to Buriram on Monday (latest Tuesday) but if we can't buy them the alternative for us then will be:
- Custom Made Columns (but that has proven very difficult to achieve)
- And as a last resort, using rebar (and that I don't want)
I don't know the length of those "Sleepers" but we would need approx 200 Meters of it ;)
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Thanks for this, will go and talk to the Stations next week (we are going to Buriram on Monday (latest Tuesday) but if we can't buy them the alternative for us then will be:
- Custom Made Columns (but that has proven very difficult to achieve)
- And as a last resort, using rebar (and that I don't want)
I don't know the length of those "Sleepers" but we would need approx 200 Meters of it ;)
The railroad is not going to be happy cleaning up that derailment. :o :D
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The railroad is not going to be happy cleaning up that derailment. :o :D
55555 I would be really surprised when I see a Train running through our garden ;)
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I think there are language differences here.
When you say railway sleepers we Americans think of a Rail Car with beds.
So exactly what are you meaning with railway sleepers? A picture would be nice.
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I think there are language differences here.
When you say railway sleepers we Americans think of a Rail Car with beds.
So exactly what are you meaning with railway sleepers? A picture would be nice.
Not exactly. Thats what the rail road industry in the US calls them. Some people may say rail ties. I spent a few years back in the early 70s working for the Southern Pacific Transportation Company.
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So exactly what are you meaning with railway sleepers? A picture would be nice.
If you google "sleepers" and look at the images you will see what they are and examples of how they are used in gardens.
You need to go past the images of the film first.
Mike
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I think there are language differences here.
When you say railway sleepers we Americans think of a Rail Car with beds.
So exactly what are you meaning with railway sleepers? A picture would be nice.
55555, Language differences you are completely right, I first had to translate it from my own Language into English via Google and then the term Railway Sleepers appeared . Next time I will as you said post a picture ;)
But here is a picture:
(http://www.myjapanesegarden.com/images/sleepers.jpg)
And that's a way they can be used
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Mike, not sure how your quest for railway sleepers is going, but was in Krasang today and they have loads of old wooden sleepers piled up
on the opposite side of the line to the station itself.
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Mike, not sure how your quest for railway sleepers is going, but was in Krasang today and they have loads of old wooden sleepers piled up
on the opposite side of the line to the station itself.
Thanks, but I am still in Patters, will be leaving tomorrow or latest Tuesday for Krasang.
Ps: Keep an eye out for building going on and please drop by when you have the time.
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Mike, not sure how your quest for railway sleepers is going, but was in Krasang today and they have loads of old wooden sleepers piled up
on the opposite side of the line to the station itself.
As GL said normal people in the US call those railroad ties. Easily obtained using midnight requisions (that means taking from the RR when no one is looking).
Good luck in getting them. I actually still have a section of RR "sleeper" and "Nail" made into a desk pen set from the building of the Panama Canal.
Which lead to most famous Palindrome ever:
A man, a plan, a canal – Panama
The sentence reads the same if you start at the last letter.
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Every country in the world knows what a railway sleeper is except one!!Well done Keith,top of the class again
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Every country in the world knows what a railway sleeper is except one!!Well done Keith,top of the class again
It appears not the whole country,Nookie.
This is what GL actually said "Not exactly. That's what the rail road industry in the US calls them. Some people may say rail ties"
Now just to define "normal people in the US"?
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Every country in the world knows what a railway sleeper is except one!!Well done Keith,top of the class again
It appears not the whole country,Nookie.
This is what GL actually said "Not exactly. That's what the rail road industry in the US calls them. Some people may say rail ties"
Now just to define "normal people in the US"?
The only sleepers that Keith knows of and sees are the cotton pickers laying next to the tracts going threw Alabama. mhihi
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From Wikipedia
A railroad tie/railway tie/crosstie (North America), or railway sleeper (Europe, Australia & Asia) is a rectangular support for the rails in railroad tracks.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Railroad_tie
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Normal people in the US ? Vastly outnumbered by the rest.
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Railway sleepers, those are they guys you find in pieces after the train passes over them. Not to be confused with rail road ties, which tie the rails together.... just saying.
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Every country in the world knows what a railway sleeper is except one!!Well done Keith,top of the class again
It appears not the whole country,Nookie.
This is what GL actually said "Not exactly. That's what the rail road industry in the US calls them. Some people may say rail ties"
Now just to define "normal people in the US"?
Do you think a random survey of those living in Buriram would yield an accurate result ? :o
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Mike, not sure how your quest for railway sleepers is going, but was in Krasang today and they have loads of old wooden sleepers piled up
on the opposite side of the line to the station itself.
Hi, we went and talked to chief, and he said already alot of these are pre-ordered by Resorts and Hotels, he also said that it take a long while (6 months or more) before you can pick them up (if there is still stock available then ;)) and the prices vary between 300 and 800THB per piece.
We will go with concrete columns, we found a place close by where we can order the ones we want. But will take 1-2 months before we can pick them up, but that's no problem.
Thanks for all the reply's.
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TIT Mike, screwy
Will keep an eye out for activity on site, and stop by one day.