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Patio flagstones (slabs), concrete flags, stone flags including yorkstone and imported flagstones.
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Post: # 69579Post GB_Groundworks

anyone seen these knocking around, must have been 4'x2' and 5'x2'?

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in the first image can see the dust billowing from out the backof the houses they were working behind, poor lungs.




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Post: # 69581Post parishpaver

Glossop Stone used to sell 4'x2's and they looked great in a random pattern.

Never seen 5'x2's though.

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Post: # 69596Post mickavalon

They'd do your back a world of good. We've just finished a job of re-laying approx 60m2 of Sawn Yorkstone, 3" thick and mainly 5'x2', 4'x2' and 3'x3'. Needless to say the saw came out a few times, strictly for getting the pattern correct, of course. My oppo has 'nt walked straight since.
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Post: # 69600Post pickwell paving

We did a job a few years ago with 4x2's in a coursed pattern it was the first and only time i've ever seen them.
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Post: # 69601Post local patios and driveway

Ive never seen those i bet they look great.

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Post: # 69603Post danstan

The 4x2 size was very common around 6/7 years ago and beyond. Many importers stopped this size based on the weight (H&S) and associated breakages (when these were broken it could work out a few bob at a time!)
Contractors used to refer to them as grave stones :D

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Post: # 69611Post lutonlagerlout

my thoughts exactly dan,very hard to make a 4 by 2 or a 5 by 2 work in a random pattern
also a total ball breaker
even when regularized
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Post: # 69617Post haggistini

They look a bit thin to me
:p
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Post: # 69621Post London Stone Paving

If you had a really big patio it would be good fun to use a load of those big 4x2's & 5x2's.

I wouldn't fancy laying them though

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Post: # 69624Post Pablo

It's not the weight that would bother me it's getting something that long and thin well bedded and sitting properly without it cracking that I'd worry about. When I first started paving over here there used to be 3x3 flags they were always thick but getting them neatly bedded was a pain.
Can't see it from my house

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Post: # 69638Post haggistini

Tell me about it remember these baby's if LSP imports these ill personally throw the fucks in to him......... Nor gud for man na beast!

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Post: # 69641Post lutonlagerlout

proper flag that haggi
thats £100 for 10 times above your head :;):
we used to do push up cement competitions when cement was proper 50kg a bag
I could do 12 pushes at 18
the 25kgs feel heavy now
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Post: # 69665Post Bilabonic

haggistini wrote:Tell me about it remember these baby's if LSP imports these ill personally throw the fucks in to him......... Nor gud for man na beast!

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Jeez, is that from RP Williams ?

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Post: # 69666Post Pablo

I can't work out whether thats a long flag or a short haggi
Can't see it from my house

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Post: # 69667Post haggistini

I think the scale of hammer and flag dwarf little old haggi

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