Scaffolding tubes and blue water pipe

[veggiechicken]

Did you consider a greenhouse instead of a PT. I have 4 GHs and 3 of them were free, off Freecycle and Gumtree. There are lots on Eb@y too for not much money.
I prefer the permanence of a GH to a PT.

[mrose]

I can't drive, and don't really know very many people who can drive (and none who actually have a car or van).

It's (just about, I think) possible for me to get the stuff to build a polytunnel delivered to my house and then carry it up in sections on the tube. I don't think collecting a greenhouse from someone else's garden and moving it to my plot would be even remotely possible using public transport!

I also think the stuff made with scaffolding and water pipe looks a lot more sturdy than the frames that can be purchased for a similar price (even including buying the water pipe outright) - scaffolding tubes driven 2 feet into the ground seem like something I might be able to trust to stay put.

[veggiechicken]

We need photos - especially of you on the Tube

[mrose]

I've already enlisted some volunteers to help me with that stage

[Bigmallly]

scaffolding tubes driven 2 feet into the ground seem like something I might be able to trust to stay put.

Have you got Geoff Capes Muscles?.....................

[veggiechicken]

I've already enlisted some volunteers to help me with that stage

Now I have a picture of lots of people, each lugging a scaffolding pole, up and down the escalators and onto the Tube, in rush hour of course - and carrying a long roll of tube which uncoils itself like a snake and wraps itself around all the passengers...............
Its, OK, I'm Nutty.

[Guest]

If you are going on tube and buses consider 25mm tube and put it into the lengths of scaffold. IMO I think you are underestimating how big and cumbersome 63mm pipe is.

[mrose]

Quite possibly Norfolkgrey! 25mm tube is also a lot cheaper - but the pictures I've seen of projects that use it look significantly less stable.

It's a single direct tube journey, and I don't intend to unroll anything until I get it on the plot. I've taken some pretty awkward and bulky things on public transport before (including a lot of allotment supplies - the wheelbarrow got odd looks - and once moving house almost exclusively by bus). But very interested in hearing about how people who've dealt with this stuff handled the logistics of getting it from point A to point B.

[Martin H]

When I had to take a shed down to the allotment I hired a van from the local B and Q. You can get one for an hour for £15 so that could work if you've got a branch close by and can work the logistics to get everything loaded and unloaded fast.

[Guest]

I was a student in London and I took some ruddy odd things on tube and bus. Also it was a long time ago but remember vaguely the couple of 63mm rolls delivered to work and thinking they were ruddy huge. I will take the wheelbarrow over the 63mm roll any and every time

Go to a (commercial - more likely to have it on the shelf) merchant and ask if you can physically see it

[Guest]

Sorry forgot to say. Ask if they do timed deliveries and get it delivered to the allotment gate

[Potstubsdustbins]

If you get the blue pipe delivered to your home, you will end up cutting it to size before transporting to the lottie even then I think you will struggle.

63mm pipe is not very flexible and the rolls have quite a large diameter that large I can see you being turned away from public transport. Think of the utility trailers you see with rolls of yellow and blue pipe on to give you an idea. You certainly would not get it in a tranny van..........

It is also quite weighty a 50mtr roll will weigh approx. 52-5 kilos or just over a hundredweight in old money.

[Elfeda]

I think then 50mm dia pipe would be better option then. you woud have to split the ends to hold thescaffold pipe in. there was a video on you tube on the same. 50 mm pipe is cheaper aswell.

[plocker]

I have made a start today.

Poles in place, 1 needs chopping as it's into the concrete stream wall. Blue pipe on order

[mrose]

Looks good plocker!