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Posted: Thu Oct 20, 2011 1:34 am
by GB_Groundworks
anyone seen these knocking around, must have been 4'x2' and 5'x2'?
in the first image can see the dust billowing from out the backof the houses they were working behind, poor lungs.
Edited By GB_Groundworks on 1319070952
Posted: Thu Oct 20, 2011 7:31 am
by parishpaver
Glossop Stone used to sell 4'x2's and they looked great in a random pattern.
Never seen 5'x2's though.
Posted: Thu Oct 20, 2011 8:11 pm
by 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.
Posted: Thu Oct 20, 2011 9:46 pm
by 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.
Posted: Thu Oct 20, 2011 10:09 pm
by local patios and driveway
Ive never seen those i bet they look great.
Posted: Fri Oct 21, 2011 8:07 am
by 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 
Posted: Fri Oct 21, 2011 9:58 pm
by 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
Cheers LLL
Posted: Sat Oct 22, 2011 3:06 am
by haggistini
They look a bit thin to me
:p
Posted: Sat Oct 22, 2011 2:37 pm
by 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
Posted: Sat Oct 22, 2011 3:57 pm
by 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.
Posted: Sat Oct 22, 2011 9:45 pm
by 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!
Posted: Sun Oct 23, 2011 1:35 am
by 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
LLL
Posted: Sun Oct 23, 2011 4:14 pm
by 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!
Jeez, is that from RP Williams ?
Posted: Sun Oct 23, 2011 6:02 pm
by Pablo
I can't work out whether thats a long flag or a short haggi
Posted: Sun Oct 23, 2011 6:23 pm
by haggistini
I think the scale of hammer and flag dwarf little old haggi