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Post by Stumpy on Jul 14, 2018 18:15:54 GMT
Out of interest, how much was the pickaxe handle? I don't know. But fork handles is / are priceless  |
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Post by naughtyfox on Jul 14, 2018 23:43:38 GMT
Presuming we actually make it to the east side of the Pennines, which is far from certain, we’ll need a hand spike I think. Disinclined to spend a lot at a marina/chandlery so thinking about something like a pickaxe handle. Does anyone know the dimensions of the hole into which the spike goes? How much force is required to operate ( ie does it need to be strong wood?). Ta. Use a mooring pin in an emergency. |
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Post by naughtyfox on Jul 14, 2018 23:47:38 GMT
the piece of driftwood which Jim Riley kindly pointed out to me floating in the cut was pine This piece of wood has now been mentioned 50 times and is so famous it now has its very own Facebook fan club. www.facebook.com/jimrileysdriftwood |
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Post by Jim on Jul 15, 2018 6:48:51 GMT
the piece of driftwood which Jim Riley kindly pointed out to me floating in the cut was pine This piece of wood has now been mentioned 50 times and is so famous it now has its very own Facebook fan club. www.facebook.com/jimrileysdriftwoodSo famous its overloaded Fb and crashed the page. As I was chatting to Mr Stabby, lockside on the Littleborough flight, in a suitably wary and alert manner obvs, the subject came up, the 3ft of threebytwo floated into view. I drew his attention to it, and was able to retire unscathed while he was distracted, fishing it out of the cut with his blade. I wouldn't normally worry about southern softies but he did have a young lock slave with him and I would have been outnumbered. Now I think back, there was a rise in washing line Knicker nicking in the area at the time. Very strange. Some of the local ladies were barely chuffed about it. |
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Post by quaysider on Jul 15, 2018 8:25:39 GMT
Nick, I'm a bit late joining in here but we are currently on the Calder and Hebble ... a bit up past Elland.
We're using 2 pick-axe handles... one a bit shorted than the other (cause it snapped)... SOME of them DO need an awful lot of force to operate now - and it is a slow and painful process cause the ratchet break thingys don't always hold... Andy can vouch for this as the one on Shepley bridge lock "slipped" and smacked him in the face with the handle... he's now sporting a bit of a black eye.
As we're travelling with our mates (they are 60ft), we're having to do some of the locks twice - which in yesterdays heat was not nice. WE also encountered a hire boat sharing with a srpinger (wider than it should have been) and due to leaking gates at one end, and gates that wouldn't open fully at the other, it took us over an hour to free them, whilst the dykes on the springer did bugger all to help just a cheery wave once we'd emptied and filled the lock twice with the 1 working handspike paddle and made them do-ce-do with the hirers - who were much nicer and very grateful for being rescued.
I think I'm homophobic.
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Post by Telemachus on Jul 15, 2018 8:44:32 GMT
Nick, I'm a bit late joining in here but we are currently on the Calder and Hebble ... a bit up past Elland. We're using 2 pick-axe handles... one a bit shorted than the other (cause it snapped)... SOME of them DO need an awful lot of force to operate now - and it is a slow and painful process cause the ratchet break thingys don't always hold... Andy can vouch for this as the one on Shepley bridge lock "slipped" and smacked him in the face with the handle... he's now sporting a bit of a black eye. As we're travelling with our mates (they are 60ft), we're having to do some of the locks twice - which in yesterdays heat was not nice. WE also encountered a hire boat sharing with a srpinger (wider than it should have been) and due to leaking gates at one end, and gates that wouldn't open fully at the other, it took us over an hour to free them, whilst the dykes on the springer did bugger all to help just a cheery wave once we'd emptied and filled the lock twice with the 1 working handspike paddle and made them do-ce-do with the hirers - who were much nicer and very grateful for being rescued. I think I'm homophobic. Lesbophobic! |
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Post by kris on Jul 15, 2018 8:49:02 GMT
Nick, I'm a bit late joining in here but we are currently on the Calder and Hebble ... a bit up past Elland. We're using 2 pick-axe handles... one a bit shorted than the other (cause it snapped)... SOME of them DO need an awful lot of force to operate now - and it is a slow and painful process cause the ratchet break thingys don't always hold... Andy can vouch for this as the one on Shepley bridge lock "slipped" and smacked him in the face with the handle... he's now sporting a bit of a black eye. As we're travelling with our mates (they are 60ft), we're having to do some of the locks twice - which in yesterdays heat was not nice. WE also encountered a hire boat sharing with a srpinger (wider than it should have been) and due to leaking gates at one end, and gates that wouldn't open fully at the other, it took us over an hour to free them, whilst the dykes on the springer did bugger all to help just a cheery wave once we'd emptied and filled the lock twice with the 1 working handspike paddle and made them do-ce-do with the hirers - who were much nicer and very grateful for being rescued. I think I'm homophobic. Lesbophobic! the word your looking for is misogynist |
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Post by Telemachus on Jul 15, 2018 8:51:51 GMT
the word your looking for is misogynist No it isn’t. |
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Post by Deleted on Jul 15, 2018 10:32:29 GMT
Lambaphobic?
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Post by patty on Jul 15, 2018 16:06:48 GMT
what a lovely word...gosh...I can be horrorhouseaphobic... |
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Post by Jim on Jul 15, 2018 16:25:42 GMT
There are some sharp toothed sheep around summit pastures, it's wise to beware. |
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Post by Mr Stabby on Jul 15, 2018 18:09:01 GMT
Now I think back, there was a rise in washing line Knicker nicking in the area at the time. Very strange. Some of the local ladies were barely chuffed about it. Well, I'm a bit of a fat bastard as you know Jim, but a pair of knickers swiped from the washing line of the average chip-barm munching, Tetleys ale swilling fat lass from your part of the world would immediately drop straight down round my ankles. |
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Post by metanoia on Jul 15, 2018 18:15:23 GMT
Presuming we actually make it to the east side of the Pennines, which is far from certain, we’ll need a hand spike I think. Disinclined to spend a lot at a marina/chandlery so thinking about something like a pickaxe handle. Does anyone know the dimensions of the hole into which the spike goes? How much force is required to operate ( ie does it need to be strong wood?). Ta. EEEEh them tightwads with replica rivits to replace ....
But tha's always said - money goes to money
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Post by metanoia on Jul 15, 2018 18:16:31 GMT
Now I think back, there was a rise in washing line Knicker nicking in the area at the time. Very strange. Some of the local ladies were barely chuffed about it. Well, I'm a bit of a fat bastard as you know Jim, but a pair of knickers swiped from the washing line of the average chip-barm munching, Tetleys ale swilling fat lass from your part of the world would immediately drop straight down round my ankles. In your dreams, Mr S!?! x |
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Post by Jim on Jul 15, 2018 18:59:56 GMT
Now I think back, there was a rise in washing line Knicker nicking in the area at the time. Very strange. Some of the local ladies were barely chuffed about it. Well, I'm a bit of a fat bastard as you know Jim, but a pair of knickers swiped from the washing line of the average chip-barm munching, Tetleys ale swilling fat lass from your part of the world would immediately drop straight down round my ankles. Certainly they can be scary enough for you to shit their pants. But the cause isn't Barm Cakes, we don't have them, we have muffins, oven bottom muffins, tea cakes and currant tea cakes and a new addition to the butty shop menu, a Frisbee, a large tea cake. The chipped variety would just be a chip butty. From what I see on my travels, there are lots more waddlers everywhere. Including in schools. |
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