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pond surround

ladyannladyann Posts: 2
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hello to all

i want to build a small pond using 6 rail sleepers.is there a drill to go through 10inches then i can slip in a metal rod.

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  • hogweedhogweed Posts: 4,053

    Railway sleepers are quite heavy. I would not think you would need to 'peg' them down unless you were building a retaining wall with them.

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  • Katherine WKatherine W Posts: 410

    I would not use railway sleepers by a pond.... the wood is heavily treated against rot, and that seems practical, but in fact the chemicals eventually leach out, and in a closed water body they will accumulate; water life-forms are very sensitive to chemical pollution.

  • Katherine WKatherine W Posts: 410

    image I assume that too, and that the sleepers are just the edging, but even the edge is a very humid environment where stuff can leach out and wash in with the rain anyway... maybe I am paranoid, but I would use the sleepers (they are gorgeous, I know), in a less sensitive place.

  • LynLyn Posts: 23,190

    I wouldn't use them near the pond.

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  • DovefromaboveDovefromabove Posts: 88,138

    Nowadays you can buy 'sleepers' which have never been near a railway and haven't been impregnated with creosote/tar etc like the old-style railway sleepers -  you can buy them pressure treated or not. 

    Maybe that's what the OP is talking about.

    http://www.wickes.co.uk/Wickes-Garden-Sleeper-1-8m-Light-Green/p/209375

    http://www.uksleepers.co.uk/product-catalogue/New_Untreated_Railway_Sleepers


    Gardening in Central Norfolk on improved gritty moraine over chalk ... free-draining.





  • Katherine WKatherine W Posts: 410

    Wow, I didn't know that! Cool! I thought railway sleepers were, well actual railway sleepers! Ok, now I feel really ancient.

  • star gaze lilystar gaze lily Posts: 17,654

    Evening all image

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  • Hostafan1Hostafan1 Posts: 34,888

    thanks Lily, did you mean to post that message on THIS thread? image x

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  • star gaze lilystar gaze lily Posts: 17,654

    Lol, no Hosta. Did realise and posted a sorry on here, but its seems to have disappeared! But have reposted on Forkers thread.image

  • Hostafan1Hostafan1 Posts: 34,888

    bless you. x

     

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