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Post by Deleted on Aug 31, 2021 12:31:51 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 ? I don't intend to do anything about it. Life is too short. It's over... Move on...
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Post by TonyDunkley on Aug 31, 2021 21:08:24 GMT
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 ? I don't intend to do anything about it. Life is too short. It's over... Move on... . . . . . . and with an outfit as useless and ill-intentioned as Parry & Co. being left to their own devices to run(down) OUR inland waterways AS THEY SEE FIT, . . for how long do you anticipate that 'moving on' will remain a realistic or practical possibility ?
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Post by Jim on Sept 1, 2021 8:24:41 GMT
I don't intend to do anything about it. Life is too short. It's over... Move on... . . . . . . and with an outfit as useless and ill-intentioned as Parry & Co. being left to their own devices to run(down) OUR inland waterways AS THEY SEE FIT, . . for how long do you anticipate that 'moving on' will remain a realistic or practical possibility ? A tad or two longer than you, unless you have refloated The Hesperus Selby Michael?
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Post by TonyDunkley on Sept 1, 2021 8:33:56 GMT
. . . . . . and with an outfit as useless and ill-intentioned as Parry & Co. being left to their own devices to run(down) OUR inland waterways AS THEY SEE FIT, . . for how long do you anticipate that 'moving on' will remain a realistic or practical possibility ? A tad or two longer than you, unless you have refloated The Hesperus Selby Michael? < thunderboat.boards.net/post/308075/thread >
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Post by Jim on Sept 1, 2021 9:22:25 GMT
Is that all I get? No honorary goon title? 😂😂😂😂 Nipped down to check my boat yesterday, floating lovely.
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Post by JohnV on Sept 1, 2021 11:55:15 GMT
is that the one with the carbuncle on the roof ?
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Post by Jim on Sept 1, 2021 13:45:07 GMT
is that the one with the carbuncle on the roof ? If that's what crusty old gimmers call modern design, then yes.
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Post by metanoia on Sept 1, 2021 16:04:28 GMT
Yeah, but, everyone needs somewhere to store the whippets, flat caps and Werthers (royalties to Trina on the last item...!)..
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Post by Deleted on Sept 1, 2021 16:26:18 GMT
Yeah, but, everyone needs somewhere to store the whippets, flat caps and Werthers (royalties to Trina on the last item...!).. I thought it was an accomodation pod for the grandspawn.
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Post by Jim on Sept 1, 2021 17:56:38 GMT
Yeah, but, everyone needs somewhere to store the whippets, flat caps and Werthers (royalties to Trina on the last item...!).. I thought it was an accomodation pod for the grandspawn. They've all outgrown it, apart from the two eldest girls, under 5ft! Poor little mites. We do keep encouraging them to spawn but they seem reluctant. Then we could fill the top box.
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Post by JohnV on Sept 1, 2021 18:07:06 GMT
I thought it was an accomodation pod for the grandspawn. They've all outgrown it, apart from the two eldest girls, under 5ft! Poor little mites. We do keep encouraging them to spawn but they seem reluctant. Then we could fill the top box. Never mind Lad have a chippy tea and cheer up
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Post by Deleted on Sept 1, 2021 18:12:01 GMT
I like chips.
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Post by Jim on Sept 1, 2021 18:18:19 GMT
So do I but have them very infrequently these days, about 6 weeks ago we shared a portion of fish chips, mushy peas and an extra sausage for me. There was a chippy adjacent to the canal at Walsden just down the road, Grandma Pollard's, cooked in lard, not this new fangled veg oil. Very tasty. Skipton is similar most chippies use lard over there.
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Post by Deleted on Sept 1, 2021 18:22:10 GMT
Sounds lovely.
Despite being a thinnifer I consume a lot of high fat products and do like proper chips fried in something tasty.
Reason for being a thinnifer is I also don't eat very often.
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Post by Trina on Sept 1, 2021 20:06:59 GMT
So do I but have them very infrequently these days, about 6 weeks ago we shared a portion of fish chips, mushy peas and an extra sausage for me. There was a chippy adjacent to the canal at Walsden just down the road, Grandma Pollard's, cooked in lard, not this new fangled veg oil. Very tasty. Skipton is similar most chippies use lard over there. We had chish,fips & curry sauce a few weeks ago from a Tewkesbury chippy.We realised that the last time we'd previously had a chippy tea was 3 years ago from the same chippy !😱
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