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Post by Deleted on Aug 27, 2021 16:38:48 GMT
Hopefully you'll be moving by Sunday.
I don't know how they've managed it without Super Dunk's guidance
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Post by Deleted on Aug 27, 2021 16:41:17 GMT
Will take a walk down shortly and report back - not sure I actually believe the news...
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Post by Deleted on Aug 27, 2021 18:23:43 GMT
Well all looking good for Sunday, provided they flush out the 9 inches of silt that has built up in the lock before filling the lock with water and then not being able to open the bottom gates again...
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Post by Deleted on Aug 27, 2021 19:11:07 GMT
Leeds & Liverpool Canal Location: Lock 63, Johnson's Hillock, Leeds & Liverpool Canal . We anticipate navigation will reopen on Sunday 29 August and an update on progress will be provided on Saturday, 28 August. Now how the hell have they managed that Rog Probably by violently typing something into a computer keyboard !
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Post by Deleted on Aug 27, 2021 19:19:51 GMT
I can tell you that it wasn't achieved by the use of the 'Flexidam' - that was partially dismantled yesterday morning.
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Post by Andyberg on Aug 27, 2021 21:18:38 GMT
They read the thread and took Dunkleys adviceβ¦. Job, Jobbed, Tony for the sainthood of the L L. π
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Post by Deleted on Aug 28, 2021 15:50:46 GMT
Notice Update: 28th August 21 Navigation: Open, Towpath: Open Leeds & Liverpool Canal Location: Lock 63, Johnson's Hillock, Leeds & Liverpool Canal Starts At: Lock 58, Top Lock Ends At: Lock 64, Bottom Lock
Update on 28/08/2021: Our teams have now completed the repairs to the damaged cill, at Lock 63, Johnsonβs Hillock on the Leeds & Liverpool Canal and the navigation is now back open.
Open today @tafnaa ... evening cruise maybe ?
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Post by Deleted on Aug 28, 2021 16:11:10 GMT
Open today @tafnaa ... evening cruise maybe ? I did contemplate it, but decided against as don't know how much mooring space I'd find due to boats waiting come up. Good news though.
Been watching lots of mad people running the Liverpool to Leeds Run (whilst I enjoy a lazy beer in the sunshine!).
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Post by Deleted on Aug 28, 2021 16:54:27 GMT
Sounds more fun ... no doubt be something of a backlog of boats ... makes sense to let them go than join a queue.
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Post by TonyDunkley on Aug 28, 2021 18:12:11 GMT
I can tell you that it wasn't achieved by the use of the 'Flexidam' - that was partially dismantled yesterday morning. So, . . what was done in the end, to get the bottom cill at Lock No.63 dry enough to do what must have been a relatively minor repair job, . . to have been completed within a few hours ? I would guess that it was nothing more than the cill liner -- the part the gates actually close onto -- having to be either re-fixed or renewed.
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Post by Deleted on Aug 28, 2021 18:30:30 GMT
The whole concrete cill was visibly broken up when I first walked down, the day after the stoppage notice. This plus the wooden bits that meet the gates has all been replaced. Yes a job that shouldn't take too long once the water was 'out' but getting and keeping the water out was what they had difficulty with - something you would think CRT would know how to do.
My best guess from my observations, is that they finally managed to do that by lowering the upper pounds and bringing in a big enough pump to sort the rest out.
Why the feck that took nearly 3 weeks to sort out is bizarre, but it was sorted within a day of someone returning from holiday - that doesn't appear to be a good omen for the future of the canals to me.
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Post by Deleted on Aug 28, 2021 18:34:25 GMT
The fucking fucker is fucking fucked.
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Post by Deleted on Aug 28, 2021 19:06:07 GMT
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Post by Deleted on Aug 28, 2021 20:16:09 GMT
Still boats coming up the locks and looking for moorings at 9.15pm.
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Post by TonyDunkley on Aug 31, 2021 8:24:09 GMT
The whole concrete cill was visibly broken up when I first walked down, the day after the stoppage notice. This plus the wooden bits that meet the gates has all been replaced. Yes a job that shouldn't take too long once the water was 'out' but getting and keeping the water out was what they had difficulty with - something you would think CRT would know how to do.
My best guess from my observations, is that they finally managed to do that by lowering the upper pounds and bringing in a big enough pump to sort the rest out.
Why the feck that took nearly 3 weeks to sort out is bizarre, but it was sorted within a day of someone returning from holiday - that doesn't appear to be a good omen for the future of the canals to me.
Going by C&RT's usual standards of competence or performance, it comes as no surprise at all that none of its "teams" had a clue as to how to dry a lock chamber out sufficiently to lay some fresh concrete in the bottom of it. Did you happen to notice if this was finally achieved by way of the usual method where there are such short pounds, ie. the top gates and/or paddles at the next lock down open and pumping, and/or siphoning, over and/or round the top cill, . . or was there too much mud in the pound between locks No.63 and 64 to do that without adapting and adopting the normal procedure where there's a long pound below the lock being worked on ? Do you and the others held up by this fiasco intend to do anything about it, . . or are you all quite content to be robbed of 5% of the annual boat Licence fee that you've all paid to C&RT as signatories to what THEY claim, via the Boat Licence T&C's, is a contract for the use of THEIR waterways and services ?
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