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Post by Deleted on Jun 12, 2020 18:51:55 GMT
 It been busted good. No doubt it’s a boaters fault. I wonder what the life span of a gate is, this shows it to be 24 years old.. |
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Post by Deleted on Jun 12, 2020 18:57:25 GMT
Looks pretty rotten.
Rog
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Post by JohnV on Jun 12, 2020 19:03:00 GMT
it's boaters vandalism .... they've been letting their dogs wee on the hinge
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Post by naughtyfox on Jun 12, 2020 20:01:52 GMT
I think when we were at the Stanley Ferry workshop they said 20 years for lock gates. It does look to have rotted through. We went through there last July. Well, no problem, out with the old gate and in with a new pair. Should be done by Sunday.
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Post by Deleted on Jun 12, 2020 20:35:26 GMT
I think when we were at the Stanley Ferry workshop they said 20 years for lock gates. It does look to have rotted through. We went through there last July. Well, no problem, out with the old gate and in with a new pair. Should be done by Sunday. Yeah you would think that, however  |
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Post by naughtyfox on Jun 12, 2020 22:46:40 GMT
What's Codi-19?
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Post by TonyDunkley on Jun 13, 2020 8:19:34 GMT
Apart from the load(ratchet)strap that's been put round the top of the mitre post and the remnants of the heel post, there's nothing preventing that gate from falling out of it's recess. If it had done so just as as some poor sod on a boat was passing by it they could have been badly injured or killed. How much longer will it be before C&RT's negligence directly results in injury or a fatality ? Rot as extensive as that i.w.o the collar will have taken at least 18 months to 2 years to get that bad. How many more gates, particularly bottom gates on double (wide) locks, I wonder, are in a similar condition and on the verge of failure, . . . and just what sort of regular inspection regime does this highly irresponsible and thoroughly dangerous apology for a navigation authority have in place ? |
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Post by Deleted on Jun 13, 2020 12:44:34 GMT
I know it is so easy to be critical ... and that managing over 2000 miles of waterway isn't easy ... but it definitely appears that C&RT are operating a 'fix it only when it's broke' policy.
So many collapsed culverts, rotten lock gates, broken paddle gear, missing masonry and nothing seems to be done until finally they can no longer ignore the issues.
I find it impossible to believe that the infrastructure checkers are not reporting back these issue ... on the Claydon flight, South Oxford, the balance beam fell off last year having rotted through ... this is a substantial lump of wood ... they don't rot in a few weeks.
Is it too simplistic to expect that ongoing preventative maintenance should be the priority ?
Rog
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Post by Isambard Kingdom Brunel on Jun 13, 2020 13:10:54 GMT
Its the accountants influence.
Everything just in time, if you are lucky.
Dispense with the workforce, no national insurance to pay. No holidays or paternity payments.
Sell off all the plant and tools, no maintenance required there. Strip all the assets.
Ignore things wearing out whilst bleeding the system for all the cash it can generate. [C&RT are not good at this bit ]
Blame every failing on someone else.
Quickly leave/get fired/pregnant/ill/retire whilst no one notices so you can't be blamed.
Then when things fail catastrophically get a contractor, who knows nothing about the job, in to fix it.
Hold the begging bowl out whilst throwing arms up in the air at the tremendous cost of major repairs.
James [Brindley] and I are spinning in our graves.
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Post by TonyDunkley on Jun 13, 2020 15:07:39 GMT
James [Brindley] and I are spinning in our graves. Along with several generations of Section Inspectors, Length Foremen, Lock keepers (real ones), and Lengthsmen, . . under whose watchful eyes, and buckets of grease and oil, the collar (top) ends of lockgate heel posts were so waterproof through being impregnated with the lubricant applied regularly to the collars that they were almost invariably the last part of a wooden lockgate to rot, . . and that was when the expected life of gates was 30 years, or more, of being slammed shut and shoved open by working vessels ! |
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Post by naughtyfox on Jun 13, 2020 16:23:50 GMT
I know it is so easy to be critical ... and that managing over 2000 miles of waterway isn't easy ... but it definitely appears that C&RT are operating a 'fix it only when it's broke' policy. So many collapsed culverts, rotten lock gates, broken paddle gear, missing masonry and nothing seems to be done Yet, strangely, there is plenty of time and money for CRT to lavish on themselves in the form of new vehicles. Anyone know what kind of car Richard Parry is driving now? CRT did not 'have to' take on 2000 miles of old waterways, they did it because there's money and a good living to be made out of it. |
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Post by naughtyfox on Jun 13, 2020 16:26:21 GMT
I wonder... if I 'like' a post IKB has made, can he see my 'likes' or do those get switched off too, on blocking a member's posts?
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Post by Deleted on Jun 13, 2020 16:32:52 GMT
I wonder... if I 'like' a post IKB has made, can he see my 'likes' or do those get switched off too, on blocking a member's posts? They do if you choose that option.
edit - correctly speaking you just don't get a notification, you can still see the like if you choose to view the post.
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Post by TonyDunkley on Jun 16, 2020 8:22:23 GMT
On C&RT's webshite today :
Updates
15/06/2020 15:44
Following the failure of the off-side gate, lock 3, on the Watford Flight on Friday we have now made the gate safe.
A Trust engineer has inspected the damage and ordered replacement parts.
A plan to safely lift the gate is being put together and we hope to be able to issue more positive news in the coming days.
. . . . . . Clueless as ever ! A few chunks of wood, some flat bar, some bolts and lengths of threaded rod, . . and above all, someone who knows what their doing, with a few scaffolding poles and a platform to work off , . . and that gate could have been made temporarily, and safely, serviceable within a maximum of 48 hours from the time when the rot in the heel post caused it finally to fall to bits, . . without lifting it, or any of their other standard procedures for farting about and wasting as much time as possible !
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Post by Deleted on Jun 16, 2020 9:35:02 GMT
It's interesting that C&RT think it's the gate that's failed  Rog |
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