See how easy it is to get the extra zero in - I said £30 per bollard and meant £300 to give my figure of a half million plus labour. Still it is amazing how much petty cash BW seem to have.
--- On Sat, 8/9/08, David Cragg <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: From: David Cragg <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Subject: Re: [canals-list] Re: Bollards To: [email protected] Date: Saturday, August 9, 2008, 2:34 PM 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! Add in the labour costs and you get the sort of amount DFRA knocked off BW grant. Certainly makes you think that maybe BW are a little unhinged when it comes to spending our hard earned money! BW priorities - Butterflies, Bikes and Bollards (and bugger boaters!) --- On Fri, 8/8/08, Bruce Napier <[EMAIL PROTECTED] me.uk> wrote: From: Bruce Napier <[EMAIL PROTECTED] me.uk> Subject: Re: [canals-list] Re: Bollards To: canals-list@ yahoogroups. com Date: Friday, August 8, 2008, 12:57 PM On 8 Aug 2008, at 11:08, David Cragg wrote: > So - now we know how many BW men are needed to install a Bollard. > > Last year we watched 5 BW men fix a water tap. One did the job, one > seemed to be supervising, one scratched himself in various > unmentionable places and two sat on the grass reading newspapers. > Ivor Caplan tells me that they cost GBP1500 per bollard, so 30k for the Wolves 21 alone. 末 All the best Bruce There are no strangers on the cut, only boaters we've yet to meet. [Non-text portions of this message have been removed] ------------ --------- --------- ------ Yahoo! Groups Links [Non-text portions of this message have been removed] [Non-text portions of this message have been removed]
