So - given they pay £50 each for 1,800 bollards gives £90,000 + installation costs - peanuts to a big company like BW (?). (For another use of bollards see the photo in the DCR album.)
--- On Sat, 8/9/08, Brian Dominic <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: From: Brian Dominic <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Subject: Re: [canals-list] Re: Bollards To: [email protected] Date: Saturday, August 9, 2008, 2:45 PM [Default] On Sat, 9 Aug 2008 06:34:45 -0700 (PDT), David Cragg <[EMAIL PROTECTED] com> finished tucking into their plate of fish, chips and mushy peas. Wiping their mouth, they swiggged the last of their cup of tea, paid the bill and wrote:: >Maybe they get a free bollard with every 100. > > How many narrow locks are there - 600 or so. At £1,500 each that gives >1800x1500=£2. 4 million + labour. Surely they can't have spent that much. > > Mind you metal bollards and fixings can't be that cheap and even at £30 each >would cost a cool half million! When BW was advertising their standard cast-iron bollards for sale, ISTR they were around £90 each! Brian L Dominic Web Sites: Canals: http://www.briansca nalpages. co.uk [Non-text portions of this message have been removed]
