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Post by faffer on Aug 18, 2018 16:02:12 GMT
I reckon he is a bright kid knowing what he fished out and it being a `mortar shell` most kids, well a lot of kids now dont even know the basic things in life like what a bogey is or cassette tape lol I suppose I ought to 'fess up .............. when I was 8 or 9 I got into trouble for bringing home a Piat shell (British version of a Bazooka) that I found in rough ground in Weald Park. A group of us used to go and play war games there round the remains of a shot to pieces tank. We kept finding 303 ammo (and occasional 50mm) but that was the only bit of large ordinance we found. Shortly after I went there and was stopped by a cordon as bomb disposal were clearing the area. They didn't half find a lot of unexploded munitions around including a couple of antitank mines plus quite a few more piat shells. It had apparently been a training area before D day and had been forgotten and not cleared up after the war (this would have been 1952/3) It was good fun sitting up on the top of the hill watching them blow all the stuff up (no carting it off to a range for disposal in those days) Good owd days hey, you cant even play in the local building site now.
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Post by thebfg on Aug 18, 2018 19:49:59 GMT
we did our firat bit of magnet fishing.
one scaffold pole and one windlass.
and a ten pence coin.
it's handy as we were a windlass short on the boat when fully crewed.
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Post by patty on Aug 19, 2018 16:48:35 GMT
I guess magnet fishing could be an improvement on ordinary fishing..I hate baiting hooks n dealing with slimy fish...
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Post by thebfg on Aug 19, 2018 16:56:38 GMT
I read a post on Facebook today where someone claimed crt have just issued a press realese stating that your not allowed to magnet fish and it's punishable by a £25 fine.
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Post by kris on Aug 19, 2018 17:15:41 GMT
I read a post on Facebook today where someone claimed crt have just issued a press realese stating that your not allowed to magnet fish and it's punishable by a £25 fine. Yes, but as crt don't enforce the bylaws nothing will happen.
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Post by patty on Aug 19, 2018 17:27:34 GMT
I read a post on Facebook today where someone claimed crt have just issued a press realese stating that your not allowed to magnet fish and it's punishable by a £25 fine. What?!!... thats not fair.. Ive not tried it yet
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Post by thebfg on Aug 19, 2018 18:05:47 GMT
I read a post on Facebook today where someone claimed crt have just issued a press realese stating that your not allowed to magnet fish and it's punishable by a £25 fine. What?!!... thats not fair.. Ive not tried it yet see Kris's reply. and it's probaly not true. I can only think they are referring to littering when it's all dumped canal side.
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Post by JohnV on Aug 19, 2018 18:41:06 GMT
"Honest Guv, I'm only trying to find bunch of keys I dropped about here somewhere"
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Post by naughtyfox on Aug 19, 2018 20:13:25 GMT
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Post by patty on Aug 19, 2018 21:38:13 GMT
"Honest Guv, I'm only trying to find bunch of keys I dropped about here somewhere" Ah that'll do....
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Post by Deleted on Aug 19, 2018 21:44:51 GMT
NigelMoore would be able to confirm this but I suspect that any object lying on the canal bed is technically the property of CRT (assuming its a CRT waterway) so you would need to gain permission to carry out recovery operations or risk being in breach of bye laws.
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Post by tadworth on Aug 20, 2018 2:23:02 GMT
I've got a nice little safe that a magnet fisherman found near Leighton Buzzard. Fitted a 5 lever mortice lock in it and put it back to use.
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Post by naughtyfox on Aug 20, 2018 4:11:30 GMT
Do you keep onions in it?
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Post by NigelMoore on Aug 20, 2018 9:59:19 GMT
NigelMoore would be able to confirm this but I suspect that any object lying on the canal bed is technically the property of CRT (assuming its a CRT waterway) so you would need to gain permission to carry out recovery operations or risk being in breach of bye laws. No, objects lying on the canal bed are no more CaRT’s property than an unlicensed boat is, floating (or not) over the canal bed. As the s.8 clause clearly states, even if CaRT sell off a boat they have taken, the sums remaining from costs of the removal and storage must be given to the owner if identified. At most (if no obstruction is caused), the objects are trespassing – but no legal mechanism is in place to sue for that. It is, however, an offence to let things fall into the canal – " 35. No person shall: (a) Load or unload or permit to be loaded or unloaded any goods to or from any vessel without taking proper and effective precautions to prevent any portion of such goods from falling into any canal." " 40. No person shall throw or discharge into or on to any canal any animal (whether alive or dead) or any rubbish, stones or other material of any kind whatsoever or deposit such materials so as to be washed or carried into any canal by floods or other means, or in any wise cause obstruction in any canal." As to retrieving anything from the canal bed – " 41. No person unless authorised by the Board in that behalf or otherwise legally entitled so to do shall: . . . (d) Dredge or remove coal or other material from any canal." So, contrary to the obligation of owners to remove sunken boats, legally you must not remove any other objects finding their (short) way to the bottom. But as Chris says . . .
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Post by kris on Aug 20, 2018 15:43:14 GMT
NigelMoore would be able to confirm this but I suspect that any object lying on the canal bed is technically the property of CRT (assuming its a CRT waterway) so you would need to gain permission to carry out recovery operations or risk being in breach of bye laws. But as Chris says . . . Very interesting Nigel, but you can't mean me surely?
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