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Post by patty on Aug 27, 2021 6:04:57 GMT
I believe they will be 'working' Saturday but not Sunday or Monday... I guess that's something if they 'work' one day in three......
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Post by Deleted on Aug 27, 2021 6:28:29 GMT
I believe they will be 'working' Saturday but not Sunday or Monday... A mate was stuck a few years ago, with a number of others, at Market Drayton because of a stoppage. They organised brewery trips, pub quizzes and other social events apparently, and still remain friends years later. Never the less I hope next week they're opening up. Rog
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Post by TonyDunkley on Aug 27, 2021 7:16:10 GMT
I believe they will be 'working' Saturday but not Sunday or Monday... The most recent information published on C&RT's website makes as little sense as everything else it publishes, . . and says : -- Updates
25/08/2021 16:58
Our team continue to control the water levels along Johnsonβs Hillock to prevent silt build up further down the lock flight. Stable water levels are needed to install the flexidam and create a safe working environment to be able to repair Lock 63 on the Leeds & Liverpool Canal.
Our teams are still on course to lay the concrete over the next few days and our local team are supporting our reactive team and looking into available resources to see if we are able to work over the weekend period. This will depend on the curing time for the concrete.
A further update will be provided on Monday 30 August. ________________________________________________________
Is it the top or bottom cill at lock No.63 that these 'teams' are supposed to be replacing ? Why are they farting about with water levels above No.63, instead of simply stanking off both ends of it and pumping out the chamber at No. 63, . . which is the second lock up from the Bottom Lock ?
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Post by Deleted on Aug 27, 2021 7:28:12 GMT
It's the bottom cill.
As to the rest god only knows...
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Post by Deleted on Aug 27, 2021 7:45:46 GMT
I hadn't come across the term flexidam before.
Well it's good to know that the dentist is onto the job.
Further investigation via Google reveals that a dental dam is also a device used during oral sex so not only will their teeth be ok but hopefully some safe fun had as well.
What happened to stop planks?
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Post by TonyDunkley on Aug 27, 2021 8:29:24 GMT
It's the bottom cill.
As to the rest god only knows...
As it's the bottom cill they're replacing at No.63, the top gates and paddles can simply be 'racked-up' without the need for any stop planks above them. To then get the chamber dry enough to work on the bottom cill, the bottom pound can be drained off though the paddles at both ends of lock No.64, a shallow stank - 2' to 3' deep - put in at the bottom end of No.63, and the chamber pumped dry, over the shallow stank, into the (empty) bottom pound. Any water coming down from above lock No.63 will then run off round No.63's by-wash and away down the empty bottom pound. There's absolutely NO NEED to be farting about with water levels ANYWHERE above lock No.63 itself, . . including the water level in the short pound from No.63 to No.62 !
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Post by Deleted on Aug 27, 2021 8:32:26 GMT
What no flexidam?
It's bizarre that a lock in a flight with other locks below it would cause any sort of challenge.
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Post by Deleted on Aug 27, 2021 8:38:15 GMT
So they have a "local" team and "reactive" team. How does that work. Local team stays local and consumes tea and plays with phones. Reactive team react to events and attempt to get something done. It's not one of these scenarios by any chance is it?
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Post by Deleted on Aug 27, 2021 9:20:25 GMT
How many of you are there held up by this pantomime, . . and for how much longer do all of you intend to put up with it ? What do you suggest they all do about it Donkley, abandon their boats and buy caravans? We have organised a flotilla of boats to block the canal on Sunday - that should show CRT!
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Post by TonyDunkley on Aug 27, 2021 12:11:44 GMT
What do you suggest they all do about it Donkley, abandon their boats and buy caravans? We have organised a flotilla of boats to block the canal on Sunday - that should show CRT! Why not do something more practical that will have the effect of wiping out one of C&RT's excuses for inaction, and demonstrate just how useless and 'unfit for purpose' both it and the prats in charge of it are ? Drain off the bottom pound -- locks No's 63 to 64 -- then measure how much depth of water that leaves over the lock chamber invert of Lock No.63, . . and check and assess the leakage through the top gates and paddles, . . and also for leakage round the top end of the lock either under the top cill or round the gates behind the chamber walls. When you've done that, . . post details about what you've found - with photo's - and I'll tell you what to do next.
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Post by Deleted on Aug 27, 2021 12:23:22 GMT
Dam! Now why didn't CRT do that...
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Post by TonyDunkley on Aug 27, 2021 12:50:46 GMT
Dam! Now why didn't CRT do that... Probably because the C&RT management -- from Chaiman A. Leighton and CEO R. Parry down -- are a bunch of malevolent piss-taking shysters who are trying out their captive 'customers' just to see what they can get away with in terms of not providing what they are being paid to provide under C&RT's own extra-statutory and supposedly 'contractual' Licence T&C's, . . and its genuine statutory obligations under the 1968 Transport Act, . . and the 2012 Transfer of Functions Order. More fool those who meekly put up with it. In C&RT they've got just what they deserve for a navigation authority, . . and the way things are going, it won't be too much longer before there aren't any C&RT controlled inland waterways in a fit state for them to use their precious boats on !
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Post by Deleted on Aug 27, 2021 16:08:13 GMT
Leeds & Liverpool Canal Location: Lock 63, Johnson's Hillock, Leeds & Liverpool Canal Starts At: Lock 58, Top Lock Ends At: Lock 64, Bottom Lock Tuesday 10 August 2021 10:00 until further notice Type: Navigation Closure Reason: Repair Update on 27/08/2021: Our teams have had a successful day at Lock 63, Johnsonβs Hillock on the Leeds & Liverpool Canal. The cill and concrete are now in place, and the teams will return tomorrow to finish the works, demobilise site and re-water the pounds. 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
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Post by patty on Aug 27, 2021 16:18:43 GMT
Hurrah....
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Post by Deleted on Aug 27, 2021 16:20:27 GMT
Bloody hell, that is good news!
One of the CRT guys I spoke to yesterday evening said it was his first day back after holidays - he wasn't impressed with what had been going on... but wasn't prepared to make any promises. If the progress is down to him - he should never be allowed to go on holiday again!
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