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Post by JohnV on Aug 11, 2020 5:33:49 GMT
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Post by ianali on Aug 11, 2020 6:20:31 GMT
We returned to the Ashby yesterday. Seems somebody has let lots of the water out, it’s very low. Also the surrounding land is very dry, so different to when we left 5 weeks ago. Popping boat back into marina, just for a few days. Visit house to make sure all’s ok, check neighbours have been looking after garden etc. Also have a bike meet to attend, will be good to have a blast arriving for a couple of days. We are then off out again, may head up towards the Llangollen, or maybe down towards the Avon and maybe Tewkesbury. Funny year to be boating. Funny year all round I guess. Pattys car? I reckon an MX5.
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Post by Deleted on Aug 11, 2020 7:08:57 GMT
Come on patty the suspense is building ... I can see you in a big rough, bone shaking Landrover Rog
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Post by patty on Aug 11, 2020 7:16:35 GMT
Come on patty the suspense is building ... I can see you in a big rough, bone shaking Landrover Rog not quite..I did post a pic last night then took it down....
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Post by patty on Aug 11, 2020 7:16:54 GMT
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Post by Deleted on Aug 11, 2020 7:23:08 GMT
Come on patty the suspense is building ... I can see you in a big rough, bone shaking Landrover Rog not quite..I did post a pic last night then took it down.... I wondered where it had gone. I assume its not the electric version. looked good in the photo.
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Post by patty on Aug 11, 2020 7:28:07 GMT
not quite..I did post a pic last night then took it down.... I wondered where it had gone. I assume its not the electric version. looked good in the photo. Thank you.. I thought I'd wait a week and repost with the 8 week old puppy inside....just so people could see how wise I've been with choice of dog/car... I always think dogs can curl up small.......(it'll have to)
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Post by Deleted on Aug 11, 2020 8:07:56 GMT
We returned to the Ashby yesterday. Seems somebody has let lots of the water out, it’s very low. Also the surrounding land is very dry, so different to when we left 5 weeks ago. Popping boat back into marina, just for a few days. Visit house to make sure all’s ok, check neighbours have been looking after garden etc. Also have a bike meet to attend, will be good to have a blast arriving for a couple of days. We are then off out again, may head up towards the Llangollen, or maybe down towards the Avon and maybe Tewkesbury. Funny year to be boating. Funny year all round I guess. Pattys car? I reckon an MX5. I worry about the Ashby, low water levels, high bottom sections up past Stoke Golding and the battlefield, water leaking into the fields also.. I do believe its a canal that would benefit from being handed over to the Ashby canal society, let them sort the issues out, CRT don't care and think as its lock free they can just leave it be.
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Post by brummieboy on Aug 11, 2020 9:09:59 GMT
When you think of the pound that includes the Ashby, from Hawkesbury to Atherstone, there needs to be a hell of a leak to reduce it significantly. Coming back along the Covenrty last week, it must have been a good 6" down, but with the large number of hire boats about, the traffic at Atherstone was very high.
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Post by TonyDunkley on Aug 11, 2020 9:43:20 GMT
We returned to the Ashby yesterday. Seems somebody has let lots of the water out, it’s very low. Also the surrounding land is very dry, so different to when we left 5 weeks ago. Popping boat back into marina, just for a few days. Visit house to make sure all’s ok, check neighbours have been looking after garden etc. Also have a bike meet to attend, will be good to have a blast arriving for a couple of days. We are then off out again, may head up towards the Llangollen, or maybe down towards the Avon and maybe Tewkesbury. I would keep a careful eye on the water level over the next few days if you're planning to go North in the near future. That's a very long pound - best part of 40 miles - and it has a number of good feeds into it and was always known for staying on weir even through long Summer dry spells. There are also a large number of culverts, any one of which could have started to leak badly over the last few weeks. Did you happen to notice if there was more water movement than usual through the old stop-lock at the cut-end ? Every one of the original wooden (Elm) culvert failures that plagued the coal traffic off the Moira in the 1960's was preceded by an increasingly noticeable flow from out of the Coventry.
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Post by Deleted on Aug 11, 2020 10:11:51 GMT
When you think of the pound that includes the Ashby, from Hawkesbury to Atherstone, there needs to be a hell of a leak to reduce it significantly. Coming back along the Covenrty last week, it must have been a good 6" down, but with the large number of hire boats about, the traffic at Atherstone was very high. Coventry basin to Atherstone, plus the Ashby.. one long pound As mentioned, there is a spot up past the battlefield, just before bridge 35 where the bank has gone on the offside, water now sits on the field, cows keep treading it down to get to the water, I have seen CRT tagged in in peoples tweets, but no fix.
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Post by TonyDunkley on Aug 11, 2020 11:26:13 GMT
When you think of the pound that includes the Ashby, from Hawkesbury to Atherstone, there needs to be a hell of a leak to reduce it significantly. Coming back along the Covenrty last week, it must have been a good 6" down, but with the large number of hire boats about, the traffic at Atherstone was very high. Coventry basin to Atherstone, plus the Ashby.. one long pound As mentioned, there is a spot up past the battlefield, just before bridge 35 where the bank has gone on the offside, water now sits on the field, cows keep treading it down to get to the water, I have seen CRT tagged in in peoples tweets, but no fix. If I'm remembering the bridge numbers correctly, No 35 is the one immediately after the first longish inside turn on the Sutton Cheney side of Shenton Aqueduct, . . but I can't remember how far down, or if at all, the land drops away from the 'on-weir' water level in the canal. Is water actually running out over the trodden down ground and standing before soaking away, or is it draining away to a lower part of the field, . . and is it still running into the field with the pound down as much as it is now ?
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Post by Deleted on Aug 11, 2020 12:09:47 GMT
34 is the old railway bridge, 35 is before the long right hand turn.
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Post by naughtyfox on Aug 11, 2020 12:52:11 GMT
We are then off out again
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Post by patty on Aug 11, 2020 13:19:59 GMT
We returned to the Ashby yesterday. Seems somebody has let lots of the water out, it’s very low. Also the surrounding land is very dry, so different to when we left 5 weeks ago. Popping boat back into marina, just for a few days. Visit house to make sure all’s ok, check neighbours have been looking after garden etc. Also have a bike meet to attend, will be good to have a blast arriving for a couple of days. We are then off out again, may head up towards the Llangollen, or maybe down towards the Avon and maybe Tewkesbury. Funny year to be boating. Funny year all round I guess. Pattys car? I reckon an MX5. I worry about the Ashby, low water levels, high bottom sections up past Stoke Golding and the battlefield, water leaking into the fields also.. I do believe its a canal that would benefit from being handed over to the Ashby canal society, let them sort the issues out, CRT don't care and think as its lock free they can just leave it be. It would be good if CRT would hand over stretches of canals to Societies to take on maintenance ..there are willing volunteers in these organisations
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