Bollard on own drive/land

Rotor

This thread has started my saturday off with a chuckle. Thanks everyone

davemorton

http://cgi.ebay.co.uk/security-post-car-driveway-bollard-fold-down-bolt-down_W0QQitemZ290414214889QQcmdZViewItem?rvr_id=&rvr_id=&cguid=3e37707c1230a0aad3d5e075fdeb39ba

There you go, £28.50....and you would not need to mark it as it is already a bright yellow.

Rolandtheroadie

davemorton wrote: »

http://cgi.ebay.co.uk/security-post-car-driveway-bollard-fold-down-bolt-down_W0QQitemZ290414214889QQcmdZViewItem?rvr_id=&rvr_id=&cguid=3e37707c1230a0aad3d5e075fdeb39ba

There you go, £28.50....and you would not need to mark it as it is already a bright yellow.

The words chocolate and fireguard spring to mind. You'd have to renew it every time a neighbour brushed past it with a wheelie bin.
And a weatherproofed padlock smacks of quality too lol.
How much to monoblock the drive to install it? or have a solid base put in to bolt it to?

Finally, it says first post £7.99, additional posts £1.60. Come on, how silly do they think we are, the second post was stopped years ago. (J/K)

davemorton

Must admit, I think I paid around £60 for mine, had to dig a hole then refill it with concrete, but it was damn strong, in fact strong enough to withstand me stupidly reversing into it when I forgot to remove it. Although at the time, at least it meant I still had a car to reverse, as without it, the car would probably have went walkies in the middle of the night.

cyclonebri1

davemorton wrote: »

Must admit, I think I paid around £60 for mine, had to dig a hole then refill it with concrete, but it was damn strong, in fact strong enough to withstand me stupidly reversing into it when I forgot to remove it. Although at the time, at least it meant I still had a car to reverse, as without it, the car would probably have went walkies in the middle of the night.

Told ya, gets nearly everyone,

Lum

Sounds like the trick is to reverse into your driveway rather than out of it.

This is generally a good idea even if you don't have a bollard.

John_Pierpoint

Armed with an electric drill and a large bolt plus a bike "D" lock; I made my own with scrapyard materials. The barrier cost 15 GBP. The lock about 5GBP and the holes and concrete about 10 GBP - A full day's work 11 years ago.
I'm on the third "Oxford" bike lock now.

Result similar to the red & white job illustrated.

http://www.bollards.co.uk/categories/fixed&&moving_barriers.php

Hintza

sharpy2010 wrote: »

Whether or not that particular bollard goes up and down (it doesn't), it remains that the price for one that does will be pretty much identical.

Foot in mouth??????

sharpy2010

Hintza wrote: »

Foot in mouth??????

What are you talking about?

focae

Lum wrote: »

Sounds like the trick is to reverse into your driveway rather than out of it.

This is generally a good idea even if you don't have a bollard.

Please explain why?