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Post by Deleted on Jun 13, 2018 16:56:43 GMT
Why has the pound "drained down a bit"? Not another breach is it or a fekked lock.
Can you go and check it out please, birdbrain
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Post by Jim on Jun 13, 2018 17:11:55 GMT
Why has the pound "drained down a bit"? Not another breach is it or a fekked lock. Can you go and check it out please, birdbrain Fekked lock gate. It's been happening for about 3 weeks, leaking past the hinge post. I suspect a stone has got between the cill beam and the gate near the pivot, forcing the hinge post away from the stonework slightly. Heavy rain due tonight will have water cascading over the summit level gates into the pound. When the gate isn't leaking the pound goes up and down for fun, it's only 300m long ish. A couple of boats come up and the level drops. Hire boats come up and turn in it "because Tim and Pru did". Still it's got great views, better than a high rise wharf in londonland. I put some paving flags on the cut bed years ago, so we sit down flat when dried out.
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Post by Deleted on Jun 13, 2018 17:19:05 GMT
It might be a worn out pot. I get the old pots out quite a lot with the magnet (worn out ones dumped in the cut after replacement) and the pintles from the bottom of the heel post of the gate. What the gate pivots on - an essential bearing. Its a standard maintenance item as the hole in the pot goes oval in use which leads to gate misalignment. That's on the Grand Union - I imagine a similar thing is used up north. They do wear out. This is the kind of thing which is being neglected in the current maintenance regime. The pot itself on a GU lock is about 4" x3" with a 1 1/2" hole for the pintle so after a bit of neglect it will fall apart completely I used to know a BW man at Stockers lock in Rickmansworth. Just to show how much he loved the cut he actually had a pot chrome plated and used as a door stop.
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Post by Jim on Jun 13, 2018 17:24:53 GMT
It might be a worn out pot. I get the old pots out quite a lot with the magnet (worn out ones dumped in the cut after replacement) and the pintles from the bottom of the heel post of the gate. What the gate pivots on - an essential bearing. Its a standard maintenance item as the hole in the pot goes oval in use which leads to gate misalignment. That's on the Grand Union - I imagine a similar thing is used up north. They do wear out. This is the kind of thing which is being neglected in the current maintenance regime. The pot itself on a GU lock is about 4" x3" with a 1 1/2" hole for the pintle so after a bit of neglect it will fall apart completely I used to know a BW man at Stockers lock in Rickmansworth. Just to show how much he loved the cut he actually had a pot chrome plated and used as a door stop. So... Its a 3 week job fully scaffolded, 3 managers to risk assess it etc etc.
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Post by Deleted on Jun 13, 2018 17:30:07 GMT
Probably.
In reality* its stop planks, sheer legs and a couple of blokes who know what they are doing. probably half a days work with time for tea and biscuits.
*sadly reality does no longer exist.
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Post by Jim on Jun 13, 2018 17:32:37 GMT
Your still a birdbrain, birdbrain. Oi, that's andrew's pet name for me! He'll get jealous.
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Post by Jim on Jun 13, 2018 17:33:53 GMT
Probably. In reality* its stop planks, sheer legs and a couple of blokes who know what they are doing. probably half a days work with time for tea and biscuits. *sadly reality does no longer exist. Stop planks? What for, just drain the rest of the water out of the pound.
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Post by Deleted on Jun 13, 2018 17:34:59 GMT
Elfin safety
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Post by Jim on Jun 13, 2018 18:24:01 GMT
Elfin safety No elves here. T'boggart eats 'em!
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Post by Jim on Jun 13, 2018 18:30:22 GMT
Nice clay pipe. Cannon ball is a pretty good find too. I have had a few out with the magnet over the years. A woman in a nearby house said she found one in her garden. She'd read the the Round heads and the posh bastardtwats had a battle round there, she thought it could be a cannonball. Mine was in the cut next to a swing bridge, if it quacks like a duck.... The only way to know really would be a metallurgical test.
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Post by Deleted on Jun 13, 2018 18:36:34 GMT
it'll be a swingbridge ball bearing. Would make a nice cannon ball though
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Post by Jim on Jun 13, 2018 18:40:16 GMT
it'll be a swingbridge ball bearing. Would make a nice cannon ball though I used to juggle with 3 shot putts, somebody nicked them on a gig, I now use 3 bowling balls. I catch one on my head. Hence the brane dumbage, tweet tweet.
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Post by Deleted on Jun 13, 2018 20:40:06 GMT
it'll be a swingbridge ball bearing. Would make a nice cannon ball though I used to juggle with 3 shot putts, somebody nicked them on a gig, I now use 3 bowling balls. I catch one on my head. Hence the brane dumbage, tweet tweet. I can juggle 4 boules. In case you don't know what with having such a small bit of grey matter - they are those metal balls what French people play with.
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Post by Jim on Jun 13, 2018 21:13:05 GMT
I used to juggle with 3 shot putts, somebody nicked them on a gig, I now use 3 bowling balls. I catch one on my head. Hence the brane dumbage, tweet tweet. I can juggle 4 boules. In case you don't know what with having such a small bit of grey matter - they are those metal balls what French people play with. We could play petanque with your balls.
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Post by Deleted on Jun 13, 2018 21:20:33 GMT
Petanque. A beautiful onomatopoeic word
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