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Posted: Wed May 26, 2010 9:02 pm
by mickg
are B & Q as cheap down yonder as they are in gods country because if you buy 5 or more bags of cement you get a discount
different ball game if you want any bulk bags delivered as they was charging £ 5 per bag for delivery, same for bricks and blocks
I have never used them for any large orders but they only deliver in different areas on fixed days so if you time it wrong you could be waiting best part of a week for your order to turn up
Posted: Wed May 26, 2010 9:12 pm
by GB_Groundworks
haha we have 4 quarries with 10 miles of our yard, joys of living in the high peak. can get mot bulk as low as £9 delivered or if you go to the quarry you can get it for £6 a ton loose.
all the big bm's are bad for bulk bags, i remember all bm's have a tractor with a loader on or small shovel for loose aggregates now it all comes pre bagged all 800kg of it.
funny remember when you used to have to pay a £5 desposit on bulk bags and take them back, we split most of them now for ease of use etc.
Posted: Wed May 26, 2010 9:17 pm
by mickg
i do remember the £5 deposit on bags, I have spent many a day carefully removing MOT type 1 from the bag so it can be returned, now the crane puts it exactly where you want it and knife the bottom to empty the content on the floor
Posted: Wed May 26, 2010 11:39 pm
by lutonlagerlout
the HSE wont let us do that mick
i remember the aggro that £5 deposit caused
a lot of landscaper/gardener types have the emptys for leaves and hedge clipping
my mate made a hammock out of 2 ,but sadly for him they aren't UV rated and it collapsed after 18 months 
B and Q pffft! cheap prices but 50 nicker delivery and full of nomarks who cant even pretend to be helpful
if 3 lads are idle for 2 hours no point being £30 cheaper
LLL
Posted: Thu May 27, 2010 5:15 am
by Dave_L
lutonlagerlout wrote:the HSE wont let us do that mick
Won't let you do what Tone?
Posted: Thu May 27, 2010 6:45 am
by mickg
I have an extension pole what i fix my knife to Luton 
Posted: Thu May 27, 2010 4:45 pm
by lutonlagerlout
so its a knife on a pole
isn't that called a spear?
as in zulu,with sir michael caine?
"who chucked that bloody spear?"
half joking of course but we got bollocked to high hell for letting lads slit bags with the crane holding them up,
some bint from the college came out to assess the apprentice and there he was cutting the bags
LLL
Posted: Thu May 27, 2010 6:32 pm
by ilovesettsonmondays
i have just levelled my expensive type1 .maybe its expensive because its pink .whats weird down here is the sand was cheaper than the stone
Posted: Thu May 27, 2010 7:28 pm
by lutonlagerlout
we got sand pit lanes coming out of our ears darn sarf setts,also brick kiln lanes in every village
i always assume sand to be cheaper than MOT,is it different oop north?
and as for the MOT
guess what ?
its always pink round here
LLL
Posted: Thu May 27, 2010 7:49 pm
by ilovesettsonmondays
example lll type 1 in my m8s b.m 16 pound plus vat .sand 35 pound at a guess.type 1 is white oop north in n.w anyway.
Posted: Thu May 27, 2010 7:57 pm
by mickg
from the merchant who I buy off grit sand is a little bit more expensive than MOT
Posted: Thu May 27, 2010 8:32 pm
by rab1
when we did the patio/drive etc the sand cost more and the type1 was grey.
Posted: Thu May 27, 2010 10:10 pm
by lutonlagerlout
we have no mountains, but we have bundles of sandpits
when i was a yoof we used to drive into pratts yard near leighton buzzard and pick up a yard of soft for a fiver,and realistically they used to just fill you up, round about 2 bulk bags worth
I remember before the delivery lorries had Hiabs everyone had to muck in and unload the lorries
no fun when a lorry turned up with 7000 bricks at 4.30pm on a friday :;):
LLL
Posted: Thu May 27, 2010 10:18 pm
by GB_Groundworks
i remember 2 scaffold poles through the pallet or pack of bricks 2 slings and then lift off with the machine.
our local bm still has jcb 2cx and does sand loose for 18 a ton, cheshire is one of the biggest sand pits in the country that or salt haha.
Posted: Thu May 27, 2010 11:12 pm
by 47p2
GB_Groundworks wrote:i remember 2 scaffold poles through the pallet or pack of bricks 2 slings and then lift off with the machine.
You guys are making me feel old. I used to deliver packs of bricks and they were lifted off with poles or slings. It was ok until the sling slipped and a brick caught me on the head.
I remember when Thames Traders tipper trucks would deliver common bricks to the building sites and they were tipped onto a pile