Butler Sheetmetal Ltd - The Tinbasher

Refuse Vehicle Cleaning Platform for Burnley & Pendle Binmen

Posted on 25, Aug

Share/Bookmark Not the most progressive way to clean the back of your bin truck. There’s one main difference between American and English weddings: At English weddings everybody on the dance floor is thoroughly banjo’d and needs to be to get up there in the first place; it’s only the sober, infirm or the dead that [...]

Oh, Look! A Spanking New Theme

Posted on 28, Jul

Share/BookmarkWell we’ve finally got a new site/theme/layout/look/feel up and running after far more faffing about than is healthy for anyone. There’s still a few things to iron out or tweak a bit more, but it’s mostly functional – or as far as I can tell. So, if you care to pass comment on anything you’ve [...]

Have Yourselves a Lovely Christmas

Posted on 24, Dec

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Share/BookmarkNever in a partial month of Sundays did I expect to turn up in the UK for Butler Sheetmetal’s Christmas do and find the weather almost as cold and snowy as Cleveland – you note I say almost. Something else I expected even less was Jasper ‘looking well’. I swear he looked three years younger [...]

NEC Exhibition Stand for Axess 2 Limited

Posted on 2, Dec

Share/BookmarkHere’s an exhibition stand we recently fabricated components of for Axess 2, who specialise in platform lifts for most purposes you can think of. The following pictures (which I think Axess took) show their entire stand from various angles while they where down at the NEC in Birmingham. I’ve been told the Butler Sheetmetal guys [...]

Are Burnley the New Susan Boyle?

Posted on 22, May

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Share/Bookmark UTC! Burnley is so northern that if you were to get stabby with it using a kitchen knife it’d bleed that most northern of mythical creatures resembling the body of a whippet, the wings of a pigeon and a mane functioning as a flat cap. The only way to trap one is to taunt [...]

FREE Research Report on Stainless Steel Design & Fabrication of Buses & Rolling Stock CD-ROM

Posted on 3, Apr

Share/BookmarkThe closest we ever get to the fabrication and design of buses is beating the living panels out of the local Tyrer fleet after they’ve pranged a bus shelter. Although we (and by we I mean Matt) did happen to design a fuel arm loading bracket to prevent the overspill of diesel while fueling locomotives [...]

New Server, New Site & New York (SES)

Posted on 20, Mar

Share/BookmarkWhile you shouldn’t really be visiting this blog on a Friday evening when spring has sprung and the nights are getting longer, I just want to let you know that there’ll be a server upgrade going on. There’s also no reason for me to tell you this as no disruption in the slightest is expected [...]