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Post by Deleted on Apr 7, 2021 15:30:21 GMT
Health and safety innit guv! If it can be done safely now, why wasn't it done safely two months ago?!...
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Post by Deleted on Apr 7, 2021 17:08:47 GMT
I see CRT have finally accepted that the culvert has collapsed at Macclesfield and got around to rescuing the fish (hopefully before they died - it's been de-watered for a week). Wondering about the wall they have removed as well - is this the same wall that has supposedly blocked the towpath nearby since April 2019 (info from the stoppage notices).
Oh. And the information about watering points is sooo useful... (I presume the instruction to point out the nearest winding points some how got lost in translation!)
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Post by thebfg on Apr 7, 2021 17:27:08 GMT
I see CRT have finally accepted that the culvert has collapsed at Macclesfield and got around to rescuing the fish (hopefully before they died - it's been de-watered for a week). Wondering about the wall they have removed as well - is this the same wall that has supposedly blocked the towpath nearby since April 2019 (info from the stoppage notices).
Oh. And the information about watering points is sooo useful... (I presume the instruction to point out the nearest winding points some how got lost in translation!)
Post copied from a Drew Melbourne on the narrowboat network issues stoppages and incident group on face book. Today on the Macclesfield canal, I phoned crt to get an update this morning but they don't have one , so I walked down to talked to the people that came yesterday to doing the work and they have explained to me what they need to do to fix the leaking pipe that runs underneath the canal and how long they reckon it will take to do, and they think it will take 4 to 6 weeks to do the work, they have to take trees down take a wall down to get to the side of the canal and then put 200 tones of stone ether side of the pipe so there machine can across the canal to dig out the damaged pipe and replace it, but he did say the pipe was repaired 18 months ago by crt, back then all crt did was put a concrete saddle over the top of the old broken pipe to seal the hole, but they should have put a concrete saddle all the way around the pipe to spread the weight out , so now the old pipe has collapsed underneath the concrete saddle, so we are here for 4 to 6 weeks, I did see someone on Facebook last night saying that they thought crt were going to dig a channel through the land slip at Bridge 200 near Anderton boat lift to allow boats through, I asked crt this morning if this was so and all they said was we will be giving an update on the landslip at Anderton on the 20/4/2021 till then they can't comment, so if anyone one out there hears anything please let us all know!!
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Post by Isambard Kingdom Brunel on Apr 7, 2021 19:11:04 GMT
I see CRT have finally accepted that the culvert has collapsed at Macclesfield and got around to rescuing the fish (hopefully before they died - it's been de-watered for a week). Wondering about the wall they have removed as well - is this the same wall that has supposedly blocked the towpath nearby since April 2019 (info from the stoppage notices).
Oh. And the information about watering points is sooo useful... (I presume the instruction to point out the nearest winding points some how got lost in translation!)
Post copied from a Drew Melbourne on the narrowboat network issues stoppages and incident group on face book. Today on the Macclesfield canal, I phoned crt to get an update this morning but they don't have one , so I walked down to talked to the people that came yesterday to doing the work and they have explained to me what they need to do to fix the leaking pipe that runs underneath the canal and how long they reckon it will take to do, and they think it will take 4 to 6 weeks to do the work, they have to take trees down take a wall down to get to the side of the canal and then put 200 tones of stone ether side of the pipe so there machine can across the canal to dig out the damaged pipe and replace it, but he did say the pipe was repaired 18 months ago by crt, back then all crt did was put a concrete saddle over the top of the old broken pipe to seal the hole, but they should have put a concrete saddle all the way around the pipe to spread the weight out , so now the old pipe has collapsed underneath the concrete saddle, so we are here for 4 to 6 weeks, I did see someone on Facebook last night saying that they thought crt were going to dig a channel through the land slip at Bridge 200 near Anderton boat lift to allow boats through, I asked crt this morning if this was so and all they said was we will be giving an update on the landslip at Anderton on the 20/4/2021 till then they can't comment, so if anyone one out there hears anything please let us all know!! Not good, is it?
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Post by Deleted on Apr 7, 2021 20:01:10 GMT
Think i might just sell up and buy a motorhome.. at least the roads are all open.
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Post by TonyDunkley on Apr 8, 2021 13:30:38 GMT
Well - having had a couple of days waiting to hear about lock 1, a really helpful, polite and genuinely friendly young man called Luke just called me to say they would try and help me through at a time of my convenience... HOWEVER, after a couple of nights disturbed sleep worrying about getting stuck in the crappy bit or not being able to get back through, I changed my plans and decided only to go down to Slawit before returning through the tunnel 5 days later. I've also optimistically cancelled my next amended trip through which was early may(thus releasing a tunnel passage either way) and will head to Runcorn instead or Wigan... can't face the uncertainty - and then at least IF something it said on the 20th, I'll be in the right area to make a run/dash for it through the landslide bit to get back on route. Unless there are plenty of clear photo's of this slip available, taken from both sides of it, I'd be inclined to drive over to Anderton and have a look at the slip site. You might find that it's mainly just tree branches obstructing what's left of the navigation channel that's been reduced in width by the slip. Back in the days when slips such as this one occurred and were stopping the passage of commercial traffic the standard first option for getting the traffic moving again was to get a tug there, preferably on the other side of the slip to the side on which the first pair of loaded boats would arrive from. After sawing and clearing away any tree branches, working off and with the tug, the motor of the loaded pair would then try to force its way through and past the slip using its own power plus the tug pulling on a long heavy towline, or pushing if the tug was on the same side of the slip as the loaded boats. It usually worked, . . with the tug and the loaded motor literally ploughing a 'boat sized' channel through the material that was blocking the canal. If no tug was available, or the slip was too bad to force the loaded motor through, the alternative was winching the boats through with one or more 'Tirfors' pulling from off the towpath. You might find that it's possible to force your boat through the Anderton slip in a similar fashion with one or more other pleasure craft pulling yours off a long towline from the clear water on the other side of it, . . or with a Tirfor, . . or with both boats and a Tirfor. With the first boat through, you'll find that the resulting 'boat sized' channel will gradually open up and deepen slightly with the passage of every subsequent boat.
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