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sean
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Posted: Tue May 01, 07 11:44 pm Post subject: Re: Building supplies deliveries

james_so wrote:

... put about 25 feet over and 10 feet down from where the delivery lorry will have to park. Is that within the reach of the crane on a brick delivery lorry?

No. (I'm fairly sure anyway.) Could you get a forklift/pallet truck any closer to where you need them?

alison
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Posted: Wed May 02, 07 5:46 am Post subject:
The last lot of bricks we had delivered were about 6' max away from the lorry. Do you have children and a wheel barrow?

Gervase

Joined: 17 Nov 2004
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Posted: Wed May 02, 07 5:58 am Post subject:
Depends on the truck and the arm it's got - some can put stuff down 25 feet away, but your average Jewson's truck won't be able to do that.

alison
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Posted: Wed May 02, 07 6:03 am Post subject:
I don't think we have big lorries like that round here, too many narrow roads

Behemoth

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Posted: Wed May 02, 07 8:10 am Post subject:
Get the local scouts to do it and bung them �25.

gil
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Posted: Wed May 02, 07 11:11 am Post subject:
See whether the delivery firm can send the bricks on a wagon that brings a pallet truck with it. Otherwise borrow or hire one for the day.

james_so

Joined: 10 May 2006
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Location: Torbay, S. Devon

Posted: Wed May 02, 07 5:44 pm Post subject:

The driveway has a slope of about 1 in 2 so a pallet truck or fork lift is probably out of the question unfortunately. I may just have to resort to flattening the trees I planted recently and get things done the right way around next time

I'm going to have an accurate measure up and go talk to someone at TP over the next day or two. Hopefully they will be able to give me a definate answer, otherwise it's all hands on deck I guess

Cheers for all the suggestions though

tahir

Joined: 28 Oct 2004
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Location: Essex

Posted: Wed May 02, 07 5:46 pm Post subject:
Are you semi rural in location? Our Rich has a tractor based fork lift, plenty of them about round here.

james_so

Joined: 10 May 2006
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Location: Torbay, S. Devon

Posted: Wed May 02, 07 5:51 pm Post subject:

tahir wrote:

Are you semi rural in location? Our Rich has a tractor based fork lift, plenty of them about round here.

We're just inside the outskirts of a semi-rural location in a quiet seaside town

but I do see such things tootling around quite often. Certainly something to consider if the man at TP can't offer any better suggestions...

dpack

Joined: 02 Jul 2005
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Posted: Wed May 02, 07 8:23 pm Post subject:
i wont take more than a day to walk them in ugly at breakfast but a task completed by teatime london deliveries were fun

james_so

Joined: 10 May 2006
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Location: Torbay, S. Devon

Posted: Wed May 02, 07 8:38 pm Post subject:

Yeah, as a last resort though..

The reason I want them on the front is so I only have to move them once (and at my leisure), through a maddening zigzaggy path around and through the garage, across the back of the house then back across the back then down a slope to the top 'patio' then around and down to the 'lawn' (fighting through the hedge) then across the rather tretcherous garden which they are (hopefully) to put right. In all about 200 ft walk for about 50ft distance, and then there's 4 tons of gravel too.. Biggest problem is that there is no access to the rear from the front with a gap wider than 60cm except through the house itself (no chance of that...), so I cant even use a barrow

The things we do for love eh

dpack

Joined: 02 Jul 2005
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Posted: Wed May 02, 07 8:47 pm Post subject:
horrid would a chute help ? the gravel is a fair bit of toil as well crane hire for half a day would sort it but will cost even if you shop about look at the site and be lateral in your thinking

james_so

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Location: Torbay, S. Devon

Posted: Thu May 03, 07 12:28 am Post subject:
I was thinking of making or hiring a chute for the gravel but there isn't enough slope for the bricks.

dpack

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Posted: Thu May 03, 07 11:06 pm Post subject:
there are runway things made of wheels that will slide boxes etc maybe

gil
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Posted: Fri May 04, 07 9:10 am Post subject:
Just out of interest, what are you doing with these bricks ? I'd assumed you were building an extension to the house, but from your last few posts, it sounds as though you are bricking up your garden. ???

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